Managing director and national head of Healthcare Luke Treloar and Vo Thi Kim Ngan, associate director at KPMG’s Global Strategy Group Over the past two decades, Vietnam has achieved laudable improvements in key quality of life metrics such as life expectancy, infant mortality, and access to affordable medicines. This success is the result of the government’s concerted effort to modernise the health system and expand access to affordable care. Up to now, Vietnam has expanded its universal health coverage to 90 per cent of the population, and targets to reach a 95 per cent coverage ratio by 2025, while maintaining a commitment to sustainable healthcare financing. This coverage ratio and ambition leads comparable regional markets. The country’s potential is nevertheless still constrained by a relatively high out-of-pocket ratio, while spending the most in-region on healthcare as a share of GDP. If Vietnam wishes to continue to expand access to quality care and maintain … [Read more...] about Digital future for health management
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Sacombank in tie up with IBM to transform its security operations centre
Sacombank continues to collaborate with IBM for transforming its security operations centre to strengthen its data security infrastructure. — Photo courtesy of the bank HCM CITY — Sacombank continues to collaborate with IBM for transforming its security operations centre to strengthen its data security infrastructure. The centre was established and operated to international standards earlier last year, and followed a three-year roadmap for modernising and improving its capacity as proposed by IBM. The technology that IBM has sold Sacombank offers world-class intelligent threat detection capabilities and is powered by IBM QRadar Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) like at other IBM security operations centres (SOCs) world-wide. The project will focus on deploying and integrating new tools and enhancing the existing SOC to detect and respond to cyber security incidents more effectively. It includes upgrading QRadar infrastructure to a stable version by … [Read more...] about Sacombank in tie up with IBM to transform its security operations centre
Microsoft to establish first datacentre region in Indonesia
“Today’s announcement is our most significant investment in the 26 years we have been established here,” said Jean-Philippe Courtois, Executive Vice President and President, Microsoft Global Sales, Marketing and Operations at the virtual DevCon 2021. “I am delighted that we are helping to empower Indonesia to realise its vision to lead the region’s digital transformation.” With the new datacentre region, Indonesia will join the world’s largest cloud infrastructure with over 60 datacentre regions announced to date. The Indonesian datacentre region will deliver trusted cloud services locally, with world-class data security, privacy, and the ability to store data in country, according to Microsoft. “From e-commerce to agriculture, Indonesian businesses across all sectors are gaining a digital advantage with the agility, security and scale offered by Microsoft’s cloud services,” Courtois said. Businesses of all sizes and industries will have access to Microsoft Azure at launch, … [Read more...] about Microsoft to establish first datacentre region in Indonesia