Fujitsu

A person following a video stretch routine on their laptop
By  Adam Ang 11:09 pm October 5, 2023
FlexifyMe expanding beyond India with $1M seed funding FlexifyMe, a health tech platform for chronic musculoskeletal pain management, has raised $1 million in a seed funding round led by Flipkart Ventures. This round also drew participation from GSF, iHub Anubhuti, Chandigarh Angels, Venture Catalyst, and OneCapital, among other investors. Launched in 2021, the Indian startup combines traditional...
A diagram detailing the flow and use of data on Fujitsu's latest cloud-based health data platform
By  Adam Ang 04:45 am March 29, 2023
Japanese ICT provider Fujitsu has unveiled a new cloud-based platform that allows the secure collection, storage, and leverage of health and health-related data. HOW IT WORKS Based on Microsoft Azure, the new platform features automatic conversion of medical data from EMR systems to conform with current HL7 FHIR standards for easy utilisation and data exchange.  It also allows the secure...
A caregiver kneeling beside a senior patient on a wheelchair
By  Adam Ang 09:57 pm November 21, 2022
Fujitsu and Wakayama Medical University in Japan will conduct joint trials of new fall detection technologies to monitor patients in highly private spaces, including hospital rooms and nursing homes. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Over the next 16 months, they will test Fujitsu's millimetre-wave sensor, which collects point cloud data to accurately estimate body postures, and the Actlyzer AI technology that...
Doctors in a discussion
By  Adam Ang 12:27 am June 24, 2022
ICT provider Fujitsu has partnered with Salesforce Japan, a customer relations management service company, to develop new digital solutions for the insurance sector.  WHAT IT'S ABOUT According to a press statement, the two companies aim to support insurance companies in their development of optimised insurance products based on medical and health data. To do this, Fujitsu will develop a system...
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By  Adam Ang 05:19 am May 19, 2022
ICT provider Fujitsu has partnered with research institute Riken in Japan to jointly work on new-generation IT drug discovery technology to accelerate digital transformation in drug discovery. According to a press statement, the organisations will utilise the supercomputer Fugaku, which they have developed together in the past decade, along with simulation AI technologies. Through these...
Doctors analysing a CT scan
By  Adam Ang 10:40 pm May 2, 2022
Fujitsu has teamed up with Southern Tohoku General Hospital in Fukushima, Japan for a joint research project to come up with an AI solution that detects pancreatic cancer from CT scans at an early stage. According to a press release, the project will use Fujitsu's AI tech, which has been trained with over 300 anonymised CT images of pancreatic cancer patients at Southern Tohoku General Hospital,...
An ECG monitor
By  Adam Ang 10:57 pm October 11, 2021
ICT tech provider Fujitsu and the University of Tokyo Hospital in Japan have teamed up to develop an artificial intelligence tool for the early detection of heart diseases. The partners announced on Monday that starting 25 October, they will enter a clinical research phase to verify the effectiveness of the technology in estimating abnormal heart movements based on electrocardiogram data. WHAT IT...
By  Dave Muoio 01:07 pm September 21, 2017
Fitbit’s wearable devices and services will soon be included in Japanese tech company Fujitsu’s corporate wellness program. The program will offer 10,000 employees of Mitsubishi Motors Health Insurance Society a chance to earn redeemable fitness points using the Fitbit Charge 2 and a cloud-based data system, thereby making it one of Fitbit’s largest corporate wellness agreements in Japan....
By  Jonah Comstock 02:16 pm March 18, 2013
Fujitsu announced the development of a technology, to be presented soon at the 2013 General Conference of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers in Gifu, Japan, that detects a person's pulse using a smartphone or PC's built-in camera. The announcement generated a lot of buzz in technology publications. If this sounds familiar to MobiHealthNews readers, it's because...
By  Jonah Comstock 12:19 pm March 7, 2013
HIMSS13's showfloor had no small number of dedicated medical tablets, some from big tech companies like Panasonic and Fujitsu and others from dedicated tablet companies like Motion Computing. Here's seven devices that were on display at the show, and one that was being shown off in Austin this week at SXSW. Some devices are enterprise tablets designed for a wide range of uses in manufacturing and...