A South Korean manufacturer which claims to develop the world's first AI-powered doll companion for seniors has recently registered its product in the United States.
Hyodol has recently announced that its AI companion doll of the same name has been registered as a medical device with the US Food and Drug Administration.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Hyodol describes its doll, first released in 2019, as a...
Monash University has recently established a new centre for co-designing and developing assistive technology with people with disabilities, focusing on emerging technologies such as AI and robotics.
The Monash Assistive Technology and Society (MATS) Centre, which started in 2023, is led by assistive technology researchers and social scientists from the university's Faculties of Information...
The Society of General Internal Medicine released a position statement on generative AI use in healthcare, highlighting the need for clinicians and technologists to partner to enhance genAI decision-making and for healthcare organizations to use the technology but, avoid "the urge to rapidly displace the human clinical workforce with generative AI."
The Society says clinicians must remain...
Collaborative research in Asia has called for prudence in using popular large language model-based (LLM) chatbots as part of public health research and response.
In a study, which findings were published in BMJ, researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, RMIT University in Vietnam, and the National University of Singapore explored whether or not LLMs bridge or exacerbate the digital...
More APAC leaders to invest in genAI: report
Asia-Pacific will see increased investment in generative AI technology over the coming years.
In the ninth edition of Royal Philips' Future Health Index report, over six in 10 APAC leaders polled said they plan to invest in genAI in the next three years. At present, almost 40% of them have already invested in the technology.
While there is great...
Community health centres, or puskesmas, in the Indonesian province of West Java, south of capital Jakarta, will leverage generative AI to augment their capabilities to address critical health issues.
The Sumedang regency recently tied up with Singaporean doctors' networking platform Docquity to develop and launch the genAI-powered virtual assistant called TehAI.
HOW IT WORKS
TehAI reportedly...
Alaffia Health, which creates genAI solutions for health insurance claims, secured $10 million in Series A funding, bringing its total raise to $17.6 million.
FirstMark Capital led the funding round with participation from GingerBread Capital and existing investors Aperture Venture Capital, Anthemis, 1984 Ventures, Tau Ventures and Remarkable Ventures.
Amish Jani, founder and partner of...
Tech giant Google Cloud and global enterprise Bayer are partnering to develop AI applications aimed at reducing radiologist burnout and increasing efficiencies in diagnoses.
Bayer will expand its innovation platform by using Google Cloud technology, including its generative AI tools. Other tools that will be available on the platform include Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, BigQuery, Healthcare API...
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced it is launching S.A.R.A.H, or Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health, a generative AI assistant designed to provide information on major health topics such as healthy lifestyle habits and mental health.
The prototype health AI can communicate in eight languages and is available on any device.
Topics it touches on include cancer, heart disease, lung...
Conversational AI organization Openstream.ai announced a new patent for automated digital twin technology that gives EVA, or enterprise virtual assistant, users the ability to utilize virtual assistants that are digital twins of human experts in their respective fields.
The digital twins share their human counterparts' knowledge and unique personas and engage in empathetic, hallucination-free...
