Singapore may be technologically advanced in healthcare, however, there may be sections in the health system that have yet to catch up – including sexual health.
In this small island nation-state of nearly six million people, sexual and reproductive health remains a topic too sensitive and intimate to be discussed in the open.
Access to the internet and the general acceptability of telemedicine...
A new company under financial investment firm SOL Partnership has launched what could be the first at-home gut health test service powered by AI in Malaysia.
SpaceGut offers an at-home gut microbiome kit and a laboratory service that provides personalised recommendations for an individual's gut health. Leveraging a proprietary AI, its laboratory evaluates samples compared against a database of...
DigitalOwl, a company that uses natural language processing to help analyze and summarize EHRs, announced it is collaborating with ExamOne, a Quest Diagnostics company, to improve efficiency of record retrieval and analysis through DigitalOwl’s View product.
ExamOne provides risk-assessment tools for the life insurance industry with a suite of services aimed at streamlining the underwriting...
Lunit collabs with AstraZeneca, secures major deal in France
Lunit and AstraZeneca have partnered to develop new AI-powered digital pathology solutions that predict non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Based on a media release, their collaboration aims to accelerate the time-consuming process of genomic testing as part of NSCLC identification and diagnosis by leveraging Lunit's AI. The latter's...
Pharmaceutical powerhouse Lilly Digital Health and Lilly Centre for Clinical Pharmacology (LCCP), a wholly owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly and Company, announced the creation of a SGD$42 million digital health innovation hub in Singapore.
The aim of the hub is to increase the research and development of AI-powered digital health technologies, and is part of a five-year plan, supported by the...
A consortium of research institutes in South Korea has been formed to promote the utilisation of AI and national supercomputers in discovering novel drugs for treating lung cancer.
According to a press statement, the following organisations will collaborate to develop and test AI for identifying novel drug candidates and predicting its efficacy:
DAAN Cancer Research Institute under Yonsei...
HealthTap, a virtual primary care provider, is partnering with AeroFlow, a company that delivers medical products and services, to enter the durable medical equipment market (DME), allowing patients to more easily access primary care and DME services.
HealthTap provides virtual primary care, including mental health, urgent care, sexual health and wellness, and lifestyle services. Consumers can...
Cardinal Health entered into a definitive agreement with GI Alliance (GIA) and Advanced Diabetes Supply Group (ADSG) with the aim of advancing its presence in the multispecialty GI and at-home diabetes spaces.
The company will acquire a majority stake in GIA for $2.8 billion giving it 71% ownership. For its part, GIA will operate as a platform within Cardinal Health's pharmaceutical and specialty...
Digital biology company Optic is collaborating with early-stage oncology therapeutics venture, Vindur Tx, to use Optics proprietary generative AI platform to find novel highly selective kinase inhibitors and develop more effective cancer treatments.
Vindur Tx agreed to pay Optic as much as $17.5 million for its proprietary technology to search for new ways of addressing what the company called...
GE HealthCare and DeepHealth, a subsidiary of RadNet, announced they are collaborating on new AI imaging technology to further innovation, commercialization and adoption of AI in imaging.
The companies will codevelop SmartTechnology, solutions that employ the power of AI to tackle key obstacles across the imaging value chain, such as helping increase the efficiency of imaging interpretation and...
