A team of engineers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong has developed an AI-based blood pressure management system featuring a large language model from DeepSeek.
HOW IT WORKS
The system called Dr PAI (personalised AI doctor) integrates wearable technology with DeepSeek to enable 24/7 monitoring and tracking of dynamic blood pressure changes and heart rate variability. It also collects...
Coreline Soft announces Australia launch, new FDA approval
South Korean medical imaging AI company Coreline Soft has made its way to Australia after securing a partnership with a major medical device supplier.
It entered into a strategic partnership with ASX-listed ParagonCare, which aims at major hospitals launching lung cancer screening projects as part of the Australian National Lung Cancer...
Researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Beijing Tongren Hospital have developed a foundational AI model for automated eye disease diagnosis.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The generative AI model, VisionFM, was pre-trained on a large ophthalmic data cohort containing 3.4 million images from over 500,000 individuals worldwide. The pre-training dataset covers eight eye imaging modalities,...
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...
New upper GI endoscopy AI tested at CU Medicine
The Chinese University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) became the first to test Olympus' new AI-powered upper gastrointestinal endoscopy system for detecting gastric cancers.
The faculty first partnered with the Japanese medical endoscope manufacturer last year.
"The new AI endoscopic system is distinguished by its ability to...
Meds tracking live on Samsung Health
Samsung Electronics has started rolling out a new Medications tracking feature on the Samsung Health app to help users manage their medications and improve adherence.
The feature helps users keep track of their prescription and over-the-counter medications. It also provides users detailed information about their medications, including potential side effects...
Jolly Good developing CBT VR for Apple Vision Pro
Japanese medical VR provider Jolly Good has announced that it is developing a virtual reality-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) programme for the spatial computer Apple Vision Pro.
The CBT VR on the Apple Vision Pro is intended to complement chronic pain treatment using opioids or serve as an alternative non-drug therapy. Similar VR-based...
A team of researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and California-based medical research institute Sanford Burnham Prebys has come up with a new computational model to predict whether a patient with Type 2 diabetes will develop kidney disease.
The said model, according to a press statement, measures markers of DNA methylation – a process that occurs when subtle changes accumulate in...
CUHK, ConsenSys launch COVID-19 Passport System
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Ethereum software company ConsenSys have launched a health passport platform that runs on blockchain technology.
According to a press release, the Medoxie COVID-19 Digital Health Passport platform records test results, temperature checks and vaccinations in a "decentralised, private, and secure...
