Philips launches first start-up programme for AI in healthcare

Philips announced the launch of their first global startup collaboration program involving Philips’ innovation hub...

October 25, 2018 | Thursday | News
TPlus signs MoU with Yonsei University for dose management

Health services IT organization, TPLUS has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South Korea based Yonsei Unive...

October 16, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Scientists develop in vivo skin imaging technology

A team of scientists from Tohoku University in collaboration with Advantest has developed in vivo skin imaging technolog...

October 13, 2018 | Saturday | News
Health Ministry, CREST move towards digital healthcare

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Collaborative Research in Engineering, Science and Technology (CREST) and th...

October 5, 2018 | Friday | News
Holmusk secures $9.75 M in Pre-Series A financing

Holmusk, a Singapore-headquartered digital health and data analytics company with a global presence, recently announced ...

September 25, 2018 | Tuesday | News
SigTuple Tech receives recognition at Demo Day Asia

Bengaluru, India based SigTuple Technologies was given the Judges' Choic' award at the Google's first Demo Day Asia prog...

September 24, 2018 | Monday | News
Huami launches Health Band 1S and Smart Wearable AI Chip

Huami Corporation, a biometric and activity data-driven company with significant expertise in smart wearable technology,...

September 19, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Cigna launches $250 M venture fund

Health services organization Cigna has launched Cigna Ventures, a corporate venture fund with an infusion of $250 millio...

September 14, 2018 | Friday | News
LimaCorporate to Expand Digital Footprint in Orthopaedics

LimaCorporate, a pioneer and leader in a 3D printing of Orthopaedic implants, announces the milestone-based acquisition ...

September 7, 2018 | Friday | News
AI may help assess brain injury patients

Chinese researchers say they have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model with medical imaging to accurately det...

September 5, 2018 | Wednesday | News
RxHealth raises $1.8M seed round, launches Bulk Prescription

Digital medicine platform Rx.Health, a Mount Sinai Health System spinoff and provider of RxUniverse has recently announc...

September 5, 2018 | Wednesday | News
US team develops tool to identify disease-carrying mosquitoes

A team of researchers at the University of Texas has developed a new diagnostic tool to identify a species of mosquito t...

September 4, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Kare4U introduces block chain based healthcare app

Hyderabad-based, digital healthcare company Kare4U has recently launched a block chain enabled mobile app in healthcare,...

August 30, 2018 | Thursday | News
GENETRON 3D gets launch approval to ease liquid biopsy of tumor

At the end of 2017, Chongqing Food and Drug Administration of China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) officially appro...

August 22, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Verana Health Announces $30M Series C Financing

Verana Health, the developer of a cutting-edge platform for life science innovation that utilizes regulatory-grade speci...

August 20, 2018 | Monday | News
J&J launches Robotics & Digital surgery QuickFire Challenge in Seoul

Johnson & Johnson Medical Korea Ltd. and Johnson & Johnson Innovation today announced the launch of the Seoul In...

August 13, 2018 | Monday | News
US scientists design smartband to monitor health conditions

A team of scientists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick has developed a smart wristband that uses a biosensor technolog...

August 8, 2018 | Wednesday | News
iGlucose ,Validic unite to simplify Diabetes management

Smart Meter, LLC, makers of the iGlucose® Cellular Diabetes Care Solution, has announced its integration with Validi...

August 7, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Chinese medical solution provider raises $146.8M

Chinese medical solution provider Medlinker has raised a RMB1 billion ($146.8 million) series D round led by China Capit...

August 2, 2018 | Thursday | News
Robotics and AI to be the face of New Health

The ever-growing healthcare industry is going through a human resources crunch and this has led everyone to look to robo...

July 26, 2018 | Thursday | Analysis
Now your smartphone camera can perform clinical urinalysis at home

Israel based Healthy.io, the first company in the world to enable the smartphone camera to be used as a clinical grade d...

July 26, 2018 | Thursday | News
Myongji Hospital to establish telehealth system in Korea

Myongji Hospital and leading US based telehealth firm InTouch Health have partnered to test out a telehealth system in K...

July 23, 2018 | Monday | News
1.5M health records raided in Singapore cyber attack

Singapore – Around 1.5 million people have had their personal details stolen in a cyber-attack on the Singapore go...

July 23, 2018 | Monday | News
Aenco Joins Enterprise Ethereum Alliance to boost healthtech industry

Aenco, Blockchain-based healthtech digital financing solutions provider has officially join Enterprise Ethereum Alliance...

July 18, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Aetna announces partnership with Mind HK

Global health care benefits provider Aetna International has announced that it will work with non-profit organization, M...

July 16, 2018 | Monday | News
iFLYTEK to develop breast cancer detection wearable device

iFlytek, the largest publicly-listed AI technology company in the Asia-Pacific region has further advanced its healthcar...

July 16, 2018 | Monday | News
Duke University collaborates with Microsoft for research

Duke University has announced a new collaboration with Microsoft in several areas including research and cognitive servi...

July 11, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Life sciences leaders showcase a New Molecule for better health outcomes

  At the Intelligent Medicines' Future Decoded event co-hosted by Microsoft, Indegene and PAREXEL, life sciences l...

July 9, 2018 | Monday | News
Potential for AI and robotics in healthcare is vast

Medical robotics is a fast growing and rapidly innovating space, majorly fuelled by enhancement of automation technologi...

July 6, 2018 | Friday | Opinion
LinkDoc raises $151 M from series D round

LinkDoc Technology, a Beijing big data company focusing on cancer, completed a $151 million D financing that was led by ...

July 6, 2018 | Friday | News
Napier launches AI/ML powered healthcare assistant

Leading Singapore-based healthcare software provider Napier Healthcare Solutions has announced the General Availability ...

July 5, 2018 | Thursday | News
VR App to help people with Addictions

Order 66 Labs announces the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for their first virtual reality addiction product, Interven...

July 3, 2018 | Tuesday | News
HIMSS, eHealth Queensland sign treaty for Healthcare Anytime, Anywhere

eHealth Queensland and HIMSS Asia Pacific have signed an agreement for eHealth Queensland to assist with the facilitatio...

July 2, 2018 | Monday | News
AERB approves Radixact X9 system in India

Singapore- Accuray announced that the Company has received an Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) Type Approval for it...

June 21, 2018 | Thursday | News
Universal Robots launches e-Series

Singapore-  Universal Robots, the pioneer and market leader of collaborative robots (cobots), is continuing to evol...

June 21, 2018 | Thursday | News
NHIA releases health management app in Taiwan

Taiwan's National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) has released a new mobile app that can help citizens manage the...

June 19, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Digital Health Startup Babylon signs deal with Samsung

Digital healthcare provider Babylon has partnered with Samsung to launch a pioneering system that allows users to check ...

June 1, 2018 | Friday | News
PRASM expands blockchain ecosystem by signing consecutive MoUs

PRASM, a bioinformatics network that decentralizes biometrics based on artificial intelligence (AI), announced its succe...

June 1, 2018 | Friday | News
Smart Home Healthcare Market to Hit $30 Billion by 2023

According to the market research report published by P&S Market Research, global smart home healthcare market is for...

May 29, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Artificial intelligence for early cancer diagnosis

The British government has announced ambitious plans to prevent an estimated 22,000 cancer deaths by 2033, through the u...

May 22, 2018 | Tuesday | News
HistoIndex, CymaBay to advance NASH drug development

Histoindex Pte. Ltd., with the world’s first stain-free Genesis200 multiphoton digital pathology system, is collab...

May 21, 2018 | Monday | News
Discngine receives €600,000 funding from Bpifrance

Discngine, a software company specialized in developing applications for life sciences research, has received funding of...

May 14, 2018 | Monday | News
Google rebrands its Google Research Division as Google AI

With Google’s I/O developer conference being organized recently, the company has rebranded the whole of Google&rsq...

May 10, 2018 | Thursday | News
Facebook opens new AI research labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh; hires AI experts from Universities

Facebook has announced that it is opening two new artificial intelligence lab in Pittsburgh and Seattle. The company aft...

May 10, 2018 | Thursday | News
AI can guess chances of getting a heart attack just by scanning the retina

Last year at Google I/O, Sundar Pichai demonstrated the advanced computing powers of Google named Tensor Processing Unit...

May 10, 2018 | Thursday | News
Ascensia Diabetes Care Launches Smarter Version of CONTOUR®DIABETES App

Ascensia Diabetes Care has launched its upgraded version of the CONTOUR®DIABETES app in 24 countries worldwide. Thi...

May 9, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Tandem announces Australia, New Zealand distribution deals

Singapore - Tandem Diabetes Care, a medical device company and manufacturer of the only touchscreen insulin pumps availa...

April 24, 2018 | Tuesday | News
RingMD partners with MOH to provide telemedicine services

Today RingMD, a Singapore based technology company announces its entry into a Regulatory Sandbox with the Ministry of He...

April 18, 2018 | Wednesday | News
SNUBH, AhnLab to work on digital healthcare

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) and AhnLab have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to conduct...

April 17, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Fujitsu develops deep learning detection technology

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. has announced the development of AI technology that uses deep learning to detect objects, even...

April 16, 2018 | Monday | News
Philips launches Tele-Radiology services in China

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, and Digital China Health, the largest provider of cloud-based healt...

April 16, 2018 | Monday | News
Roche, Voluntis reinvent cancer patient support

  Singapore - Today, Voluntis and Roche Pharma France announced that important milestones have been reached in the...

March 27, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Insilico Medicine Starts Asia's First AI R&D Base in Taiwan

Insilico Medicine, which was selected by the well-known American venture capital research organization CB Insights as on...

March 23, 2018 | Friday | News
DocDoc raises $5.45 M for product scaling

DocDoc, Asia's leading patient empowerment company has raised $5.45 million in their latest round of funding. The finan...

March 20, 2018 | Tuesday | News
MD Tokens to trade on Knovatech OTC platform in Hong Kong

The mission of MD Tokens (MDTK) is to make healthcare really simple. It has started a digital platform that integrates a...

March 19, 2018 | Monday | News
Foxconn to promote health management in Taiwan

Foxconn Electronics and Uni-President Group have come together to promote personal health management by installing ...

March 16, 2018 | Friday | News
BGN Tech, Biosensorix to create POC diagnostics

Israel-based BGN Technologies has partnered with Singaporean medical diagnostics maker Biosensorix for the development o...

February 28, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Scientists in Tokyo design smart skin ECG device

A group of researchers, at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Engineering in collaboration with Dai Nipp...

February 21, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Infor’s healthcare solution to optimize workforce and operational effectiveness

Singapore – Infor, a leading provider of industry-specific cloud applications, has announced Infor CloudSuite HCM ...

February 13, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Singapore Health approves Zika test by Vela Diagnostics

Singapore Health Sciences Authority has recently given approval to the Real-Time PCR-based Sentosa SA ZIKV RT-PCR Test b...

February 9, 2018 | Friday | News
Google’s DeepMind develops AI to diagnose eye diseases

DeepMind, the London-based AI company owned by Google has teamed up with Moorfields Eye Hospital, one of the best-known ...

February 7, 2018 | Wednesday | News
TytoCare raises funds for expansion in US, China

Medtech company TytoCare has closed a $25 million round of funding to support an expansion into China and build its cust...

January 30, 2018 | Tuesday | News
LindaCare raises 7 M Euro for improving disease management

A digital health company specializing in remote patient monitoring solutions for chronic disease management, LindaCare r...

January 24, 2018 | Wednesday | News
CareVoice raises $2M early stage funding

Shanghai-based digital health startup targeting the insurance market, CareVoice has raised $2 million in early-stage fun...

January 22, 2018 | Monday | News
Ping An's lung nodule smart reading technology is assessed by LUNA as No. 1 in the World

Ping An Technology was ranked as a leader in medical imaging analysis, as its Ping An Yingxiang platform set world recor...

January 12, 2018 | Friday | News
Microsoft partners with Adaptive Biotechnologies

The tech giant Microsoft is partnering with Seattle biotech company Adaptive Biotechnologies on a year-long project to b...

January 5, 2018 | Friday | News
PAREXEL launches Perceptive Cloud for the Life Sciences Industry

Biopharma company, PAREXEL International Corporation has introduced the Perceptive Cloud to the life sciences industry, ...

December 13, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Wound scanner in Singapore is garnering success

Researchers in Singapore have developed a wound scanner that can assess the severity and depth of wounds in seconds, wit...

December 6, 2017 | Wednesday | News
NUS researchers develop a revolutionary way of healthcare monitoring

A research team from National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a soft, flexible and stretchable microfiber se...

November 24, 2017 | Friday | News
Fitbit trackers selected for one of NIH’s largest research programs

Fitbit Inc. has been selected to provide wristband activity trackers for National Institutes of Health’s largest e...

November 9, 2017 | Thursday | News
Ministry makes NEHR mandatory in Singapore

The Ministry of Health (MOH) intends to make it compulsory for all healthcare providers to upload data to the National E...

November 8, 2017 | Wednesday | News
77% of healthcare leaders believe they need to be a digital business to succeed: Microsoft Study

According to a recent survey by Microsoft in Asia,  nearly 77% healthcare businesses  believe that they n...

November 7, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Healthcare startup in Pakistan raises $ 1M

A complete healthcare app called AugmentCare has raised $1 million in seed capital. The app connects patients with docto...

November 7, 2017 | Tuesday | News
"With more companies emphasizing the integration of technology in healthcare, the ecosystem is rapidly evolving."

Singapore- Cigna, a global health insurance service company, launched a 2017 360o Well-Being Survey ...

October 27, 2017 | Friday | Opinion
Singapore offers a new tele-consult app for patients

A new app has been recently launched in Singapore that allows patients to book appointments with doctors, and have round...

October 26, 2017 | Thursday | News
The Digital Transformation Imperative for Healthcare Providers in Asia Pacific

Gabe Rijpma Senior Director of Health & Social Services, Microsoft Asia   Innovation in healthcare delivery, ...

October 25, 2017 | Wednesday | Analysis
Chinese scientists develop novel health gadgets

A group of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a magical suit fitted with large-area textile ...

October 25, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Korea to get an AI healthcare system soon

Samsung Medical Center (SMC) is collaborating with Microsoft Korea to build a Korean artificial intelligence (AI) precis...

October 24, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Abbott launches smartphone compatible insertable cardiac monitor in USA

USFDA has cleared Abbott’s Confirm Rx Insertable Cardiac Monitor (ICM) which is the world's first and only smartph...

October 24, 2017 | Tuesday | News
CWCF introduces app for ovarian cancer patients

The Cherish Women’s Cancer Foundation, a Brisbane-based charity, has launched a smartphone app to help women with ...

September 20, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Siemens collaborates with Tsinghua for robotics research center

German industrial group Siemens AG has entered into a partnership with Tsinghua University, one of Siemens' center of kn...

September 19, 2017 | Tuesday | News
MyDoc receives investment from UST Global

UST Global has made a strategic investment in MyDoc, a Singapore-based digital health platform company, to expand its di...

September 15, 2017 | Friday | News
Swedish startup raises €5.1 million funding

Aifloo, a Swedish startup that combines hardware sensors and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to offer a smart wristband to ...

September 6, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Speeding up drug discovery with Artificial Intelligence

It’s estimated that, on average, to bring one new drug to the market can take 1,000 people, 12-15 years, and up to...

September 6, 2017 | Wednesday | Opinion
Avella introduces app for pain management

Avella, a national accredited specialty pharmacy, providing individualized care and support to patients, has launched a ...

September 5, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Australian Digital Health and Life Sciences Delegation explores partnerships in India

As part of the Australian digital health and life sciences delegation’s visit to India a session on Australia-Indi...

September 4, 2017 | Monday | News
EHS signs agreement with GCI

GCI, a Malaysian solution provider with niche focus in Health IT, has signed an agreement to implement its solutions acr...

August 10, 2017 | Thursday | News
emids acquires healthcare IT firm Encore

Singapore: emids, a rapidly growing global provider of IT services and solutions for the healthcare and life scienc...

July 20, 2017 | Thursday | News
Q2i launches healthcare management software

Health tech company Q2i, based in the US, has developed an Opioid Addiction Recovery Support (OARS) software application...

July 19, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt and GV founder Bill Maris join hands to promote tech entrepreneurship in health and medical technology

Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt and GV founder Bill Maris are throwing their connections behind a new nonprofit...

July 4, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Singapore startup Caregiver Asia launches Caregiver Support Services

Singapore – Caregiver Asia Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based company specializing in providing trusted on-deman...

June 30, 2017 | Friday | News
App for diagnosing skin diseases

A university hospital in Hunan province is developing an online service to accurately diagnose skin conditions in second...

June 15, 2017 | Thursday | News
Artificial intelligence used for treatment of heart patients

The University of Tampere and Tampere University Heart Hospital use artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies develope...

June 14, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Zuellig Pharma invests in healthtech startup Klinify

Singapore - Zuellig Pharma has invested in Singapore-based healthtech startup Klinify, helping to drive the development ...

June 6, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Bayer Receives FDA Approval of myBETAapp and BETACONNECT Navigator

Singapore – Bayer, a German pharmaceutical and life sciences company announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Adminis...

May 31, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Singapore pioneers use of Smart Health TeleRehab

As part of Singapore's Smart Nation Initiative, the city-state will be rolling out the use of Smart Health TeleRehab. T...

May 12, 2017 | Friday | News
World's first full body biometric authentication technology announced

RAM Group, Singaporean based technology firm, has announced a new breakthrough in biometric authentication based on a no...

May 5, 2017 | Friday | News
Samsung GC70 digital radiography system receives FDA clearance

Samsung announced that the GC70 Digital Radiography (DR) system received FDA 510(k) clearance for the U.S. market, under...

April 28, 2017 | Friday | News
Apollo Hospital implants world’s smallest pacemaker

Apollo BGS Hospital, Mysuru, became the first hospital in the State to implant the world’s smallest pacemaker into...

April 28, 2017 | Friday | News
Cloud-based app for patient’s aid in absence of doctor

The Society for Administration of Telemedicine and Health Informatics (Sathi) has joined hands with a Hyderabad-based en...

April 28, 2017 | Friday | News

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