Adam Ang

By  Adam Ang 04:11 am August 3, 2021
An auditory training startup in Australia has bagged a $20,000 services package from Queensland-based digital marketing and branding firm Guerilla. Elliot Miller, founder of Hearoes, recently took home the Founder of the Year award from the 14-week Lumina-X HealthTech Accelerator programme for startups in the healthcare industry. WHAT IT DOES Hearoes was borne out of Miller's experience with his...
By  Adam Ang 05:37 am July 30, 2021
AIcare, which operates as Jingzhuo Premium in Sydney, has launched globally its mobile app-based healthcare platform that is enabled by artificial intelligence.  WHAT IT DOES According to a press statement, the AIcare Health app serves as an "integrated virtual clinic" that features online bookings, video consultations, electronic health records maintenance, prescription ordering, messaging and...
By  Adam Ang 02:27 am July 30, 2021
Qantas to roll out IATA's digital health pass Australian flag carrier Qantas Airways is looking to roll out the digital health pass of the International Air Transport Association once regular Qantas and Jetstar international flights resume.  The airline firm said in its media release that it will proceed with the IATA pass after months of conducting trials of several digital solutions on Qantas's...
By  Adam Ang 01:42 am July 30, 2021
Health fund members of Australian insurance firms Medibank, Bupa, nib, and GU Health can now add their health insurance membership cards to the Apple Wallet and make contactless claims at any HICAPS terminals in Australia. This comes as the National Australia Bank, which operates the Health Industry Claims and Payments Service, has enabled healthcare practitioners who are using its system to...
By  Adam Ang 02:04 am July 27, 2021
AI systems developer Deep Longevity, a unit of Hong Kong-listed Endurance RP Limited, has launched an online tool that can potentially estimate the survival of a hospitalised COVID-19 patients. WHAT IT DOES The web-based COVID Risk Calculator provides a patient's COVID-19 risk score, expected time to death (TTD) and survival probability curve. It requires a physician to input 15 health variables...
By  Adam Ang 01:59 am July 27, 2021
Malaysian telemedicine provider DOC2US has recently introduced a diagnostic system that enables rapid COVID-19 testing at home. WHAT IT DOES The Rapid Test Kit Intelligent System (RTKis) empowers corporations and public agencies to test, record, manage and report COVID-19 cases.  According to a press statement, the solution features a government-approved antigen test kit that allows users to self...
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By  Adam Ang 05:11 am July 23, 2021
Indonesia's Paspor Sehat issues HealthCerts from Singapore Singaporean tech firm Knowledge Catalyst has partnered with Paspor Sehat, Indonesia's provider of electronic Health Alert Card, to issue digital health certificates for people travelling between Singapore and Indonesia. Based on a press statement, the Indonesian platform started issuing the tamper-proof and verifiable COVID-19 test...
By  Adam Ang 04:32 am July 23, 2021
Queensland-based digital health firm Cardihab and Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, a medical research organisation in Melbourne, have signed a five-year agreement to jointly conduct clinical trials and cohort studies to deliver evidence of the effectiveness of digital approaches to cardiovascular disease management, rehabilitation, prevention and treatment. The research programme will see wide...
By  Adam Ang 04:22 am July 22, 2021
Inito has announced the launch of its at-home fertility test in the US, months after receiving US FDA approval. WHAT IT'S FOR  The company claims that Inito is the only ovulation test that measures estrogen and luteinising hormone levels to predict fertile days, as well as progesterone to confirm if ovulation has actually occurred. The device can also be paired with a smartphone app to provide...
By  Adam Ang 03:52 am July 22, 2021
Sydney-based Omniscient Neurotechnology has received the US FDA's 510(k) clearance for its brain mapping software.  WHAT IT'S ABOUT Quicktome is a digital brain mapping platform that provides clinicians with a visualisation of a patient's brain networks which are responsible for complex functions such as language, movement and cognition.  Featuring intuitive browser interfaces, the platform...