Irish medtech giant Medtronic's subsidiary Medtronic India has entered into a strategic partnership with Statis Health, a unit of Stasis Labs, to promote the latter's bedside patient monitoring system in India.
WHAT IT DOES
The Stasis Monitor comprises a bedside monitor that tracks six vital signs, a tablet and a cloud-connected app that enables remote monitoring across devices.
The connected...
Doctor Anywhere, a Singapore-headquartered digital health platform, has scored SG$88 million ($65.7 million) in a Series C funding round led by growth equity investor Asia Partners.
The round also saw the participation of Novo Holdings, Philips and OSK-SBI Venture Partners, as well as the company's existing investors such as EDBI, Square Peg, IHH Healthcare, Kamet Capital and Pavilion Capital. ...
Australian healthcare technology company Beamtree has entered into a binding agreement to fully acquire Potential(x), a health and human data analytics firm based in Surry Hills, New South Wales.
Valued at A$19.6 million ($14 million), the deal will see Beamtree paying Potential(x) A$4 million in cash and providing a total of 30 million shares. The shares will comprise 12.7 million ordinary...
Australian digital health backer ANDHealth scores $14M in government funding
ANDHealth, a digital health commercialisation organisation in Australia, has secured A$19.75 million ($14.3 million) in government funding to support its programme for small and medium enterprises. It received the funding under the federal government's Medical Research Future Fund – Early Stage Translation and...
The University of South Australia has published a study where an AI-powered computer vision system that has the same accuracy as an ECG machine was used to remotely monitor premature babies' vital signs. The platform can also detect their faces while lying in hospital beds.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
According to a press statement, the university's researchers developed the "baby detector" software using a...
Nutromics, an Australian medical technology startup, has raised A$5.7 million ($4.1 million) in a pre-market funding round participated by private investors. This brings its total capital raised in the past three years to A$10 million ($7.2 million).
WHAT IT DOES
Founded in 2018, the startup is developing continuous molecular monitoring (CMM) platform technology that is able to track multiple...
The University of Southern Queensland in Australia has disclosed that a global research team is developing a unique classification system for the early detection of autism in children.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
In a study, whose findings were published in the journal Complex & Intelligent Systems, the researchers examined and tested two sets of nonlinear, highly distinctive features of EEG signals...
Medical AI software developer VUNO has received regulatory approval from the South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety for its latest AI medical device that can predict cardiac arrest.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The VUNO Med DeepCARS is an AI device that analyses the potential risk of cardiac arrest using four primary vital signs: blood pressure, respiratory rate, heart rate and body temperature....
111 to build a disease management platform with Bayer
Chinese healthcare platform 111 has expanded its existing partnership with global drug maker Bayer Healthcare Co.
The two companies first entered into a strategic partnership last year in September to market innovative drugs and healthcare products for chronic disease management. A digital platform was also built to provide online pharmacist...
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in India and the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia have created a rapid method to determine whether a COVID-19 patient is likely to show severe symptoms.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The classification algorithm that was developed is based on infrared spectra of blood plasma acquired using the Agilent Cary 630 FTIR Spectrometer by...
