Tech giant Lenovo, alongside Innovations in Dementia, announced a proof-of-concept project dubbed Alzheimer's Intelligence, a photorealistic AI-enabled 3D avatar that converses with individuals with dementia. It offers curated advice gathered from hundreds of real people living with dementia and Alzheimer's.
Lenovo's technology aggregates experience and advice collected from hundreds of...
A research team at the Korean government-backed Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in Daejeon, a city south of Seoul, has developed a predictive AI technology for screening mild cognitive impairment.
HOW IT WORKS
Developed by combining existing voice and text analysis models with a large language model, the integrated AI analyses recorded conversations of senior people to...
A new mobile application in Singapore is taking an innovative approach to communications training for caregivers of people with dementia.
The Institute of Mental Health (IMH), a tertiary psychiatric care hospital under the National Healthcare Group in Singapore, has collaborated with Taggle, a connected digital health platform provider, to create the Play2Care app.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Now available...
Sydney Neuroimaging Analysis Centre, an integrated neuroimaging research and commercial medical image analysis facility within the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre, has secured government grant funding to market its AI-powered software for analysing and monitoring brain diseases.
It also announced on 5 July that it obtained the Therapeutic Goods Administration's clearance for its...
NeuroX, a neurology-focused online consultation service, and its physician network ATP Partners announced it will participate in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) GUIDE Program to enhance care for dementia patients.
NeuroX, American TelePhysician's brain health division, offers a virtual-care platform that connects individuals with neurologists, psychiatrists and sleep...
Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai, together with Oita University in Japan, has built what could be the world's first AI model that uses data from wearable devices to predict Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.
Their research team embarked on a study to create a cost-effective, practical tool to pre-screen people suspected of developing the disease. Their findings were...
Harmonic Health, a tech-enabled dementia care platform, announced its launch today alongside a partnership with Stoney Batter Family Medicine, a medical practice with locations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
St. Louis-based Harmonic Health is a company built at Redesign Health, which helps build, launch and find funding for digital health startups.
Harmonic offers comprehensive care-...
A new mobile app developed in Singapore holds promise to prevent the progression of dementia by helping improve the multilingual thinking of senior folks.
HOW IT WORKS
A team of app developers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) has built what could be the world's first multilingual app for dementia prevention, Ami (an acronym for Advancing Mental Invigoration).
Its...
Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai has established a new digital health business targeting dementia.
WHY IT MATTERS
Eisai's newly formed wholly-owned subsidiary, Theoria Technologies Co., seeks to "accelerate the development of a dementia ecosystem." This ecosystem, according to a press release, will empower people with dementia to "live their fullest lives."
Commencing business in April 2024...
A research project led by researchers from the University of Melbourne will be receiving A$2 million ($1.3 million) in funding and support from Google.org.
The MATCH (Music Attuned Technology - Care via eHealth) project is one of the 15 projects selected for the $25 million AI for the Global Goals grant, which seeks to help organisations accelerate progress towards meeting the United Nation's...
