Plano, a Singapore-based eye wellness platform, has signed a memorandum of understanding with technology social enterprise Tech Era from Ghana to tackle Africa's myopia problem.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Focused on addressing accessibility gaps, Tech Era creates technology; facilitates strategic partnerships; and designs sustainable intervention programmes to ensure vulnerable sectors in the African...
Nuance Communications, a US-based developer of conversational AI tools for healthcare, has made available its AI-enabled radiology solutions – PowerScribe One reporting platform and mPower Clinical Analytics – in Australia and New Zealand.
WHAT THEY DO
PowerScribe One, a platform that combines conversational and cognitive AI and real-time communications, uses context-aware natural language...
Thailand's Ministry of Public Health has recently disclosed its plan to provide digital health passes through the government's mobile vaccination app Mor Prom.
The Thai government developed the Mor Prom LINE account and mobile app to assist in its COVID-19 vaccination drive. The AI-powered app allows people to reserve a vaccine slot and get updated information on the country's COVID-19 situation...
Ailaaj, a digital health platform offering personalised patient care services in Pakistan, has raised $1.6 million in a seed round led by local financial services conglomerate JS Group of business tycoon Jahangir Siddiqui. The funding round also drew the participation of Leonine Tech Ventures and East Asian private equity investors.
WHAT IT DOES
The health startup operates a vertically...
A novel AI-based method of screening patients for glaucoma has been developed by scientists at the Nanyang Technological University and clinicians from the Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The automated glaucoma screening method was developed in a study, whose findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal Methods.
Two stereo fundus images taken as a pair were collected...
Taipei-based mobile health platform iXensor has launched a new telehealth service to support fertility monitoring at home.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The Eveline·Care telehealth service enables fertility consultants to access patient's ovulation test data and recorded symptoms via a dashboard, which also presents their hormone profile chart.
Users of the Eveline app must first authorise fertility...
Sydney-based firms Synapse Medical Services, an automated clinical coding tool provider, and EBM Analytics, a clinical research consultant, have recently collaborated to integrate their technologies.
WHAT THEY DO
Aside from clinical coding, Synapse also offers a transcription service and an app-based online medical billing system. It also runs the healthcare training organisation, Australian...
AI startup Lunit has received the approval of Singapore's Health Sciences Authority to commercialise its AI diagnostic tools for analysing chest x-ray and breast mammography.
WHAT THEY DO
Both AI products are under the Lunit INSIGHT product line. According to a press statement, the Lunit INSIGHT CXR and INSIGHT MMG provide lesion detection with around 96-99% accuracy and visualise the location of...
New Zealand-based Rfider links COVID-19 test with digital health pass for travel
New Zealand software firm Rfider has enabled a COVID-19 test in Singapore to connect with a digital health pass for international travel.
In a statement, the company said it has been chosen by Invitrocue, a Singapore-based bioanalytic solutions provider, to empower its saliva-based antigen and PCR-based COVID-19...
Japanese VR medical device maker Jolly Good, together with the Nippon Medical School, a private university in Tokyo, has developed a cloud-based clinical education platform that uses VR.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The education platform employs Jolly Good's Operation Cloud VR system that delivers a virtual view of live procedures through a 360-degree VR camera. The system is capable of automatically saving...
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