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preventive healthcare changing the face of asia’s medical sector

Transcript of Asia Preventive Healthcare -

preventive healthcare

changing the face of

asia’s medical sector

very old China

By 2050, China's population above age 65 is expected to grow beyond 320 million.

This will create a tremendous need for cardiac disease prevention and control

from disease-centric to

prevention-centric

By2020 focus will shift from disease to

prevention-centric services, driving greater

technology needs in software, information

sharing and healthcare IT solutions

Telemedicine,

always on the

Asia network

With a billion

internet users

and 1.8 billion

mobile users in

Asia,

telemedicine is

gaining fast

popularity for

real-time low-

cost, high-quality

teleconsultation

Asia's cancer rate may jump by

nearly 60% to 7.1 million new

cases a year by 2020. This will

create a greater need for

predictive diagnostics methods

such as genetics testing

saving a patient

from cancer

before it strikes

Asia healthcare IT market was US$3.4 billion in

2008 and is expected to reach US$5 billion in

2010 due to increased regulations, privacy

restrictions, development of private care sector

and replacement of obsolete infrastructure

Healthcare IT spending

accelerating rapidly in Asia

In Asia, about 70,000 patients are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year. Nanotech in medicine could spare 80% of patients unnecessary surgery or chemotherapy by using nanosensors to detect, target and kill off cancerous cells

Asia nanotech, small is the new big

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