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As more Asian countries aspire to become medical tourism hubs, information and communications technology (ICT) is increasingly being adopted by the healthcare industry to improve service delivery.

Hong Kong's territory-wide eHR system will serve as a fundamental infrastructure in underpinning healthcare transformation, removing the boundaries between different healthcare professions which provide different levels of care in different sectors.

The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia announced that it will roll out a new electronic health insurance card system based on IBM technology across the country.

The new system enables healthcare providers to instantly and accurately check a patient’s health insurance status and allows for health claims to be processed online.