The mobile application for eye wellness by Singaporean startup Plano has been added to the apps gallery of mobile gadgets and wearables brand of Chinese electronics giant Huawei.
WHY IT MATTERS
The inclusion of Plano's mobile app to Huawei devices comes as part of their partnership to tackle the global issue of myopia or nearsightedness. In a press statement, the startup said its entire ecosystem...
AIcare, which operates as Jingzhuo Premium in Sydney, has launched globally its mobile app-based healthcare platform that is enabled by artificial intelligence.
WHAT IT DOES
According to a press statement, the AIcare Health app serves as an "integrated virtual clinic" that features online bookings, video consultations, electronic health records maintenance, prescription ordering, messaging and...
India-based digital chronic disease management platform BeatO has raised $5.7 million in a funding round led by W Health Ventures, an American venture capital firm. The investing round was also participated by Threpsi Solutions' e-pharmacy unicorn PharmEasy, Merisis VP and previous investors.
The digital health startup has raked in over $10 million in investor funds since last year.
WHAT IT DOES...
Singapore-based Active8me on Monday said it has partnered with Metro Pacific Health Tech Corporation in the Philippines to add its digital health programmes to the latter's mobile health app mWell.
WHAT THEY DO
Active8me offers a suite of preventive health solutions for insurers, health providers, employers and individuals to tackle obesity, stress, diabetes and hypertension.
Available on both...
Australia-listed Advanced Human Imaging has entered into a binding agreement with Singaporean health tech company Nexus-Vita for the integration of its smartphone-based health screening platform with the latter's upcoming health app. The deal is for a consideration of $500,000.
WHAT IT DOES
Nexus-Vita is developing an application that allows users to manage and keep their health data, such as...
About the author: Arnol Rios is head of business development at Takeoff Point, a Sony company that provides the mSafety Platform in North America.
As companies look to fast-track availability of their mobile health solutions amid COVID-19, they are facing a variety of hurdles. Despite these challenges, organizations are more motivated than ever to identify ways to make their mobile health...
Last month Singapore-based Mobile Health, creator of personalize health concierge platform MaNaDr, announced that it was acquiring fellow Singaporean company Doctorbell, a patient engagement platform, for an undisclosed amount.
The MaNaDr platform connects users to doctors and their networks. It also gives patients access to their medical health records and lab results so they can carry this...
Just under two-thirds of U.S. teens and young adults have used a health-related mobile health app, according to a new survey of more than 1,300 US teens and young adults aged 14 to 22 years.
The survey, sponsored by Hope Lab and Well Being Trust, was designed and analyzed in part by Susannah Fox, a former HHS chief technology officer who also conducted similar surveys in the past as a part of the...
A new overview of systematic reviews of published randomized control trials of mobile health apps found just 23 RCTs of currently-available apps have been conducted, and less than half of those showed a positive health effect from the app in question.
A group of researchers from the Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice at Bond University in Queensland, Australia conducted the review,...
Patients often have a long and difficult road to recovery following a stroke, but now developers are turning to virtual reality to assist in their therapy.
Rehabilitation research group the Kessler Foundation and immersive interactive technologies company Virtualware are teaming up to develop a VR-based treatment for spatial neglect in stroke patients.
Spacial neglect is a condition that...
