Thursday, September 19, 2024
The Whitehouse has issued a statement declaring its commitment to improving cancer care by ensuring electronic health records (EHRs) contain all of the information required for doctors to provide excellent patient care. The adoption of the United States Core Data for Interoperability Plus Cancer (USCDI+ Cancer) will see the introduction […]
Elm, a Saudi-based digital solutions provider, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Gulf Health Council during the LEAP tech conference in Saudi Arabia this month, with the aim of advancing “cooperation and efforts in order to serve the targeted clientele and enhance the continuity of services within […]
Dassault Systèmes has announced the launch of a virtual twin project in collaboration with the Saint-Louis Hospital AP-HP in Paris, with aims of improving understanding around the respiratory transmission of viruses and optimising patient care. The project uses augmented reality to create a virtual twin of the hospital’s dialysis unit, allowing […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH), with the initiative focusing on aligning resources for country-led digital health transformation through “strengthened collaboration and knowledge exchange” along with supporting the implementation of the Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025. GIDH’s objectives also include assessing […]
Researchers from Northwestern University and Washington University at St. Louis (WashU) have developed a “sticker” with the ability to change in shape in response to the body’s changing pH levels, in the hopes that clinicians viewing shape changes in real time through ultrasound imaging could identify earlier warnings for post-surgery […]
Gorilla Technology Group Inc. has announced the success of its bid to provide a “comprehensive video management system with intelligent video analytics solution” for Rama Hospital, Thailand. The video management system, with in-built intelligent video analytics, has been procured with the hopes of providing Rama Hospital with “real-time actionable insights, […]
In Turkey, Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) has highlighted the value of its optical fibre preform production infrastructure and fibre drawing tower in enabling “next-generation” health technologies. The fibre-based “piezoelectric and triboelectric nanogenerators” used in UNAM’s research are currently being used to measure health parameters including heart rate, blood […]
German science and technology company Merck has established its first digital hub in Singapore with the aim of supporting advancements within healthcare. The hub is supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), with the EDB’s senior vice president and head of healthcare Wan Yee Goh sharing hopes that the […]
In New York, the Windreich Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health at the Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, has been awarded $1.95 million to create a new fellowship program. The funding will support “an inaugural cohort” of five fellows for a three-year fellowship under The Eric and Wendy […]
India-based Wellthy Therapeutics, an operating system for digital therapies, has announced it is taking a “step forward” by becoming part of the TruDoc (United Arab Emirates) family, bringing together TruDoc’s digital primary care services and Wellthy Therapeutics’ chronic disease management solutions. With the new union in place, Wellthy notes the […]
