NUS launches a risk predicting calculator

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a web-based tool that predicts a patient&rsqu...

April 27, 2017 | Thursday | News
New lab-on-a-chip platform for pathogen detection

A team of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy & Immunology, Germany, have devised a new lab-on-...

March 27, 2017 | Monday | News
A computer program for diagnosing and locating cancer

A computer program has been developed by a team of researchers at the University of California for detecting and identif...

March 24, 2017 | Friday | News
A smart way to screen male infertility

Although male infertility is as common as female infertility, it often goes undiagnosed because of socioeconomic factors...

March 23, 2017 | Thursday | News
Vendors favour platform monitoring as novel service models disrupt APAC home health monitoring market

The escalating demand for home monitoring products such as remote patient monitoring (RPM) and mobile health (mHealth) h...

January 24, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Need for Technology in Improving Healthcare

Singapore: The use of smartphones, smart watches, tablets, laptops, and other such information technology (IT)-enabled d...

January 13, 2017 | Friday | Opinion
Brain-driven speech computer aids communication of ALS patient

The University Medical Centre (UMC) Utrecht in the Netherlands is breaking new ground with a brain-driven speech compute...

November 24, 2016 | Thursday | News
Former Apple CEO John Sculley accepts position as Chairman and CMO at RxAdvance

Ravi Ika, founder and CEO of RxAdvance announced that former Apple CEO, John Sculley, has accepted the expanded role as ...

November 23, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Health in Your hands!

Singapore: Imagine being housebound for 2-3 days due to terrible snow or a bad storm! Your baby has severe fever and all...

November 22, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Use of Smartphone Apps for Biomedical Research

Singapore: Mobile apps have invaded almost every aspect of life, yet few are relevant for biomedical experimental resea...

March 7, 2015 | Saturday | Opinion
Thailand hospital trials mHealth application

Singapore: Thai patients will begin receiving SMS appointment reminders direct to their mobile phones as Bangkok's Vibha...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
MMR, UNIS join hands with Chinese government

Singapore: MMRGlobal announced that through its China joint venture, Unis-Tonghe MMR International Health Management Ser...

June 11, 2013 | Tuesday | News
India's Arunachal Pradesh to get Digital Healthcare Centers

Singapore: India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh is wooing Samsung Electronics to set up units in the state. T...

July 27, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Melanoma Institute Australia to exploit IBM's cognitive technology in melanoma R&D

Singapore: IBM Research in Australia has announced plans to undertake research with Melanoma Institute Australia to help...

June 29, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Japanese bioinformatics researchers set to exploit SGI's supercomputer

Tokyo: SGI Japan Ltd., a part of NASDAQ-listed SGI that deals with high-performance solutions for compute, data analytic...

November 4, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Toshiba introduces new Ultrasound system

Toshiba America Medical Systems introduces the newest addition to its ultrasound portfolio. The Xario 100 is a small, ve...

December 2, 2015 | Wednesday | News
NeoGenomics completes acquisition of Clarient

NeoGenomics has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Clarient and its wholly-owned subsidiary Clarient Dia...

January 1, 2016 | Friday | News
Cybersecurity challenge for digitally connected healthcare

Singapore: As technology drives a revolutionary transformation in the healthcare industry buoyed by the latest innovatio...

January 22, 2016 | Friday | Opinion
Philips, Singapore to invest in digital health

Singapore: Royal Philips and EDBI, the corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board, have signed...

January 13, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Dell announces monitor purpose-built for healthcare

Dell has announced the release of the Dell Medical Review 24 Monitor (MR2416), the company's first monitor purpose-built...

November 27, 2015 | Friday | News
Singapore's mobile app to guide insulin dosage

Singapore: Many patients with type 2 diabetes who are new to insulin therapy face the daily challenge of not knowing how...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
FDA Clears Siemens CT Scanners for Low-Dose Lung Cancer Screening

The United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has cleared Siemens Healthcare's SOMATOM computed tomography (CT...

December 2, 2015 | Wednesday | News
"Must have access to credible information"

How can technology be instrumental and more effective in empowering patients to manage diseases? Technology which can p...

December 9, 2015 | Wednesday | Influencers
Healthcare IT to the rescue

The marriage of healthcare with technology has given birth to one of the top alarmingly booming industries across the wo...

May 23, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
Future of Healthcare in Asia

Healthcare industry is in a period of evolution accelerated by changing demographics and market forces propelled by insu...

May 5, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
Challenges in mHealth integration'

Singapore: Medidata Solutions is a provider of cloud computing-based solutions for clinical development process to impro...

January 19, 2016 | Tuesday | Opinion
Cisco report: Focus shifts to telemedicine in India

Bangalore: Cisco released the Cisco Customer Experience Report focused on healthcare. The findings from the survey cond...

April 4, 2013 | Thursday | News
Toshiba, Ziehm Imaging partner for Mobile C-arm Technology

Toshiba America Medical Systems is now making mobile C-arms available to its customers in the United States through a ne...

December 4, 2015 | Friday | News
Attune Technologies to expand its business overseas

Attune Technologies, a start-up that makes cloud-based software for hospitals and labs, will tackle markets outside of I...

October 21, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Technology Advancements: Digital Pathology

Healthcare is perhaps the only sector which remains impervious to technology advancements, though things are changing at...

July 13, 2016 | Wednesday | Analysis
Cloud technologies is the next healthcare megatrend: Frost

Singapore: Cloud technologies including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings,...

October 2, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Korea's LSK Global strengthens ties with Medidata

Singapore: Korea's leading CRO, LSK Global has expanded its use of Medidata Clinical cloud platform, thus strengthening ...

June 14, 2016 | Tuesday | News
WuXi launches app to record oncology data

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech, biotech outsourcing company, has launched a mobile version of OncoWuXi, an app to allow rese...

October 14, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Oracle launches clinical trial data platform

Singapore: Oracle Health Sciences has launched Oracle Health Sciences InForm Cloud Service 6.1, a data capture and manag...

June 17, 2015 | Wednesday | News
GE to buy healthcare software firm

Singapore: GE Healthcare plans to acquire API Healthcare, a healthcare workforce management software and analytics solut...

January 24, 2014 | Friday | News
Allergan Japan implements new software to meet regulatory requirements

In a step to upgrade its pharmacovigilance services, Allergan Japan has announced that the company has implemented US-he...

September 7, 2015 | Monday | News
Arterys, GE Partners for cardiac medical imaging platform

Arterys, a privately-held medical imaging company providing a SaaS analytics platform that integrates cloud computation ...

December 8, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Medtronic acquires Aircraft Medical for $110 million

Medtronic has announced it has acquired Aircraft Medical, a privately-held medical device company based in Edinburgh, Sc...

November 19, 2015 | Thursday | News
Innovations in 3D printing

Singapore: Here's a look at some of the lastest innovations in 3D printing: Stratasys: US-based company is developing a...

November 25, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
Google announces life science company under 'Alphabet'

Google co-founder and Alphabet president Mr Sergey Brin in a blog post has announced Life Sciences as the first new comp...

August 24, 2015 | Monday | News
Aussie defence enlists new e-health system

Singapore: If reports are to be believed, Australia's defence force has enlisted a new e-health system. The multi-millio...

September 23, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Future of security in healthcare

Singapore: According to the global consulting firm Tower Watson, Singapore has one of the most successful healthcare sys...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Roche launches the new cobas c 513 analyzer

Roche has announced that its new, dedicated high-throughput HbA1c testing solution, the cobas c 513 analyzer, is now ava...

October 6, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Medtronic completes acquisition of Twelve

Medtronic has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Twelve, a privately-held medical device company based i...

October 5, 2015 | Monday | News
Telemedicine market to grow at a CAGR of 12%: F&S

Singapore: The acute shortage of medical expertise in rural and remote areas of Asia Pacific has resulted in the rise of...

August 19, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Allianz Life Korea launches a healthcare app

Singapore: Allianz Life Korea has launched a new healthcare app that can check a person's blood pressure, heartbeat and ...

July 2, 2015 | Thursday | News
Lives on the Line: How a Robust Network Infrastructure Enhances Healthcare Standards

The Singapore General Hospital recently reported a Hepatitis C outbreak, affecting 22 patients. While the possible cause...

July 7, 2016 | Thursday | Opinion
FDA approves first app-based monitoring system for pacemakers

Medtronic has announced the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) approval and the US commercial availability of the ...

November 18, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Occlutech' ASD Occlusion Device secures Japanese MHW approval

Tokyo: Occlutech, a Germany-based innovator of implants to treat structural heart disease, has obtained Japanese MHW app...

January 13, 2016 | Wednesday | News
NZ Health Ministry inks five year pact with IBM

Singapore: The New Zealand Ministry of Health has inked a five-year contract with tech giant IBM, to deliver high secure...

May 13, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Apple's new initiative turns iPhones into diagnostic tools

Singapore: Apple recently unveiled an initiative to help researchers gather critical medical information from willing iP...

March 10, 2015 | Tuesday | News
IT major Tech Mahindra to set up healthcare unit

Singapore: After Cognizant and Infosys it's now Tech Mahindra's turn to jump into the healthcare bandwagon. If reports a...

June 25, 2015 | Thursday | News
Telstra health expands Asia presence

Singapore: Australia's largest telecommunication and technology company, Telstra health, announced several key contract ...

August 26, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Telstra acquires UK-based healthcare firm

Singapore: Australia-based Telstra healthcare has recently acquired a UK-based health analytics company, Dr Foster in a ...

March 27, 2015 | Friday | News
GSK to strengthen social media presence with Wunderman

Singapore: Further expanding its presence in Asia, Wunderman has extended its relationship with GlaxoSmithKline. The par...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Touch activation' to revolutionize blood collection

Singapore: Seventh Sense Biosystems, a privately held medical device company developing integrated blood micro-collectio...

April 3, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Mitigating disease outbreaks with smart mapping technology

With Zika virus declared a 'public health emergency' by the World Health Organization (WHO), doctors and scientists worl...

March 9, 2016 | Wednesday | News
FUJIFILM presents latest digital radiography innovations at AHRA 2016

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of diagnostic imaging products and medical informatics solutio...

August 2, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Disruptive technologies penetrate into healthcare

Commercial television took 13 years to reach 50 million people; internet reached the same number of people in three ye...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
US researchers develop tongue operated wheel chair

Singapore: US researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a wireless, assistive device that lets paral...

November 29, 2013 | Friday | News
Your smartphone can detect cancer too!

Singapore: Technology has developed so vast that it has now found new method to detect the eye cancer in young children,...

May 19, 2015 | Tuesday | News
GSK, Google to establish bioelectronic medicines firm

GSK announced an agreement with Verily Life Sciences LLC (formerly Google Life Sciences), an Alphabet company, to form G...

August 2, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Philips inaugurates new APAC healthcenter

Singapore: With a view to improve the lives of people in the ASEAN, Royal Philips recently inaugurated its new state-of-...

May 20, 2016 | Friday | News
Smart Healthcare Survey 2014: Uneven regulatory norms biggest hurdle

Singapore: The focus of most of the companies has been in areas of technology innovation, affordability, ease of operati...

November 18, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
The self-monitored healthcare revolution has begun

Wearable technology is changing the face of sport. It is also having an immense impact on the field of health and fitn...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
APAC is the fastest growing market for healthcare IT:F&S

Singapore: In its recent report, Frost & Sullivan (F&S) elaborated that APAC is the fastest growing market for h...

April 18, 2015 | Saturday | News
Smartphone can detect HIV, syphilis?

Singapore: Simplifying the long testing procedures for HIV, researchers from the Biomedical Engineering department at th...

February 5, 2015 | Thursday | News
Sequencing helps in proliferating personalized medicine

With the increasing trend of genomics analysis and a wave of personalized medicine taking over in healthcare industry,...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
Big data paves way to connected health

Singapore: As the healthcare sector around the world shifts towards a patient-centric paradigm, patients and healthcare ...

November 25, 2014 | Tuesday | Opinion
Technology to reduce healthcare cost

Singapore: Throughout the world, governments are grappling with the growing challenge of providing quality, affordable h...

November 24, 2014 | Monday | Opinion
Top 5 healthcare trends

Singapore: The healthcare industry is at a disruptive stage globally and patient's involvement and engagement in their o...

November 20, 2014 | Thursday | Opinion
Cloud Computing in Biomarker Discovery

Singapore: Across industries, business needs are driving institutions to utilize cloud computing for a myriad of reasons...

November 21, 2014 | Friday | Opinion
Orion's e-health solution for Philippines hospital

Singapore: New Zealand-based health software company, Orion Health, has partnered with The Medical City (TMC), Philippin...

July 3, 2014 | Thursday | News
E-health: Lack of common platforms a major challenge

Singapore: Today the challenge India has, much like many other countries, is to not only reach the poor but also to ensu...

November 12, 2014 | Wednesday | Opinion
Samsung explores healthcare partnerships with SAP, MS

Singapore: Korea electronic giant Samsung is in talks with SAP and Microsoft to collaborate and explore the deployment o...

November 7, 2014 | Friday | News
China develops learning app for autistic children

Singapore: An android app developed for children with autism, supported by UNICEF's Global Innovation Centre in collabor...

May 8, 2015 | Friday | News
Introduction to digital health

The twentieth century was very typical and traditional. Though newer innovations ranging from penicillin and other drugs...

August 23, 2014 | Saturday | Opinion
iOS8 to have a spirometer data tracking feature

Singapore: According to reports, in the iOS 8 beta, Apple has added a number of health-related features. Most notably, a...

August 23, 2014 | Saturday | News
Indonesia expands mobile health clinics network

Singapore: Middle east based telecommunication service provider, Ooredoo, and Leo Messi Foundation has launched mobile h...

September 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Napier expands in Middle East

Singapore: Napier Healthcare, a healthcare technology and services provider, has expanded to Middle East by opening a ce...

October 13, 2014 | Monday | News
Skin-like wearable device monitors health 24/7

Singapore: Scientists at the Northwestern University and University of Illinois have developed a new wearable device tha...

September 25, 2014 | Thursday | News
Digital technology to help identify perfectly healthy human body

Modern medicine has benefitted immensely from the wide array of high tech medical equipment that have made diagnosis and...

August 22, 2014 | Friday | Opinion
The Social Network' of weight loss

Singapore: Social media programs designed to help people lose weight can be a useful tools in the global fight against o...

September 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Quintiles acquires Encore Health Resources

Singapore: Global clinical research organization, Quintiles has acquired Encore Health Resources, a health-information a...

July 3, 2014 | Thursday | News
Ready, Fit, Build and Run: Solutions fast tracked

Singapore: The Japanese biotech company UNIGEN has taken Werum's PAS-X Manufacturing Execution System (MES) into operati...

August 19, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Wipro, Microsoft launch remote health platform

Bangalore: Wipro Technologies, the Global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing business of Wipro, announc...

March 8, 2013 | Friday | News
SAP to offer healthcare services in Korea

Singapore: SAP has recently announced cooperation with major Korean companies to enhance its healthcare services across ...

October 29, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Novartis invests in smart healthcare

Singapore: Novartis Pharmaceuticals has formed a joint investment company with Qualcomm Ventures to target early stage c...

January 13, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Cognizant acquires Cadient Group

Singapore: Tech-giant Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp has acquired US-based Cadient Group for an estimated $30 milli...

October 9, 2014 | Thursday | News
Healthcare delivery revolution in APAC

Asian countries face the challenge of wide demographics, resource accessibility and disruptive connection between health...

May 30, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
IBM buys Merge Healthcare in a $1 billion deal

Singapore: Tech giant IBM recently announced that it would buy medical image company Merge Healthcare for $1 billion to ...

August 7, 2015 | Friday | News
China's first cloud-based hospital inaugurated in Ningbo

Singapore: Ningbo Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission and Neusoft Xikang Healthcare Technology recently inau...

March 16, 2015 | Monday | News
First case of Google glass addiction documented

Singapore: Doctors in San Diego have identified the first case of internet addiction disorder by the use of Google Glass...

October 25, 2014 | Saturday | News
AstraZeneca, Vida health team up to develop new app

Singapore: AstraZeneca has teamed up with Vida health to launch a new app- 'Day-By-Day' for speedy recovery of heart att...

July 15, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Korea develops mobile app to combat trachoma

Singapore: Korea-based Severance Hospital announced that in collaboration with KT Corporation they have developed a mobi...

September 3, 2014 | Wednesday | News
An app to detect skin cancer

Singapore: An app embedded with skin identification system using image recognition software is on a trial by general pra...

February 4, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Aussie parkinson tech company raises $14.8 mn

Singapore: Australian health technology company, Global Kinetics, has raised $14.8 million to rapidly progress the compa...

June 2, 2015 | Tuesday | News
PerkinElmer launches new imaging system

PerkinElmer has announced the launch of its Mantra Quantitative Pathology Workstation with inform Image Analysis Softwar...

October 27, 2014 | Monday | News
UST Global, Blackberry launch a telemedicine app

Singapore: UST global, in collaboration with Blackberry, has launched an advance telemedicine application that offers ru...

October 1, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Ybrain, Menisa join forces to treat Alzheimer's disease

Singapore: France-based Mensia Technologies has announced its collaboration with Korea-based Y brain, which is currently...

October 1, 2014 | Wednesday | News

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