ASIA News

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Singapore developing digital platform for mental health care coordination
By Adam Ang | 03:22 am | October 12, 2023
Guidelines on mental health data sharing are also on the pipeline.
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Why this AI solution provider emphasises on-prem hosting amid growing cloud adoption
By Adam Ang | 12:51 am | October 12, 2023
It also believes that health organisations must digitalise at their own pace.
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Changi General Hospital leverages AI to spot curable hypertension
By Adam Ang | 06:49 am | October 11, 2023
Its hypertension-focused centre with Shimadzu has reduced the turnaround time of testing for primary aldosteronism, which was previously done overseas.
[Left] Wellysis CTO Rick Hongryul Kim and [Right] Dozee CTO Gaurav Parchani pose beside the new Dozee Pro EX
Dozee bets on India's growing home healthcare market with new solution
By Adam Ang | 06:39 am | October 11, 2023
It has released an AI-powered connected ambulatory patient monitoring system.
Representatives from both the Hospital Authority and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks during the agreement signing for launching the HKSTP HA Data Collaboration Lab
Hospital Authority to expand clinical database access for R&D
By Adam Ang | 04:05 am | October 02, 2023
It is launching a data collaboration lab with Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks.
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Roundup: Medusa ransomware hit Philippine state insurer and more briefs
By Adam Ang | 05:11 am | September 29, 2023
Also, South Korea takes a further step to enable health data interoperability.
Vinod Narayanan, Country President, AstraZeneca Malaysia and Dr Puteri Norliza binti Megat Ramli, Deputy Director, Institut Kanser Negara, at the collaboration announcement
AstraZeneca expands AI lung screening to public hospitals in Malaysia
By Adam Ang | 11:20 pm | September 26, 2023
It has partnered with Institut Kanser Negara to promote the adoption of AI-based lung screening in public health.
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South Korea enables access to 113 personal health data via My HealthWay
By Adam Ang | 04:49 am | September 26, 2023
It connects individual medical data held by around 800 health institutions.
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New NUHS AI can spot high blood calcium levels
By Adam Ang | 04:45 am | September 26, 2023
It flags cases in real time, prompting faster patient interventions.
Professor Ho-Young Lee, Director of Research and Development, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
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Bridging IT and medical knowledge to advance healthcare AI
By Adam Ang | 04:22 am | September 26, 2023
Cooperation is key to the successful implementation of new technologies such as AI for improving care, said Prof Ho Young Lee of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital.