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A novel wearable sensor developed in Singapore does not rely on common biofluids such as blood and sweat to continuously monitor chronic health conditions.
Instead, it uses what is called "solid-state epidermal biomarkers," including cholesterol and lactate, found on the skin. These biomarkers, according to researchers from the National University of Singapore and the Agency for Science,...
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.
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TehAI reportedly...
Heuron expands medical AI to Thailand
Heuron from South Korea has recently signed a distribution agreement to deliver its medical AI solutions to Thailand.
According to a press release, it partnered with AI software distributor Medhealth Informatics to sell Heuron's products, including its stroke triage AI solution Heuron StroCare Suite; Heuron AD, which provides quantitative analysis of brain...
Singapore-based Aevice Health has secured $7 million in an extended seed funding round led by Cedars-Sinai's Singaporean venture unit Coronet Ventures.
The round also saw the participation of existing investors, including East Ventures, A&D Company, NTUitive, Farquhar Venture Capital, and Silicon Solution Venture. Enterprise Singapore's investment arm SEEDS Capital also joined the round.
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A recent study in South Korea has explored the use of a cryptographic scheme widely used in secure elections to protect patient data used in training AI models.
Researchers from Asan Medical Center have applied homomorphic encryption (HE) to big data gathered from multiple institutions to test a predictive AI model. HE is an encryption method that allows computations on encrypted data.
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A research team at the Korean government-backed Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in Daejeon, a city south of Seoul, has developed a predictive AI technology for screening mild cognitive impairment.
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Developed by combining existing voice and text analysis models with a large language model, the integrated AI analyses recorded conversations of senior people to...
A research team from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong has developed an AI-powered mobile application that turns smartphones into a stethoscope to spot symptoms of heart diseases.
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Called Vitogram, the app uses AI to analyse heart sounds, which are collected by placing the mobile phone on a user's chest.
"Analysing heart sounds provides important...
Increasing use of AR-based surgical navigation in Thailand
Taiwan-based medtech company SURGLASSES has announced the recent implementations of its augmented reality-based surgical navigation system in Thailand.
Thailand Veterans General Hospital and Chulalongkorn Hospital conducted their first AR-guided surgeries using the Caduceus S system.
Designed for spine surgery, the SURGLASSES system...
AIRS Medical bags $20M to take more global markets
Korean medical AI company AIRS Medical has raked in $20 million in a Series C funding round led by BSK Investment and Shinyoung Securities.
Based on a press statement, the company will use its fresh funds to continue its global expansion and invest in R&D.
Last year, AIRS Medical launched its flagship product, SwiftMR, in the United States...
A new mobile application in Singapore is taking an innovative approach to communications training for caregivers of people with dementia.
The Institute of Mental Health (IMH), a tertiary psychiatric care hospital under the National Healthcare Group in Singapore, has collaborated with Taggle, a connected digital health platform provider, to create the Play2Care app.
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