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Amazon launches One Medical, a health benefit for Prime customers
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Amazon launches One Medical healthcare benefit for Prime members

Amazon has launched One Medical, a healthcare benefit for Prime members, which provides “24/7 on-demand virtual care nationwide and easy to schedule office visits at any of One Medical’s hundreds of locations across the U.S.”. In a press release dated November 8th, 2023, Amazon revealed how it plans to “reinvent” […]

DIGITAL, a Canadian global innovation cluster for digital technologies, has announced a commitment worth an estimated $44 million.
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WEF’s Global Collaboration Village highlights metaverse’s potential to “revolutionise” industries including health with virtual and augmented reality

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Collaboration Village initiative, conducted in partnership with Accenture and Microsoft, has highlighted examples of the metaverse’s potential to “revolutionise” industries including health and care. With around 140 Village Partners including businesses, governments, civil society organisations and academic institutions, the platform unites leaders and decision-makers […]

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12 India based SMEs join Health Innovation Yorkshire’s boot camp

12 small to medium enterprises based in India, have been selected for Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber’s Propel@YH Boot Camp, a programme designed to bring global health innovations to the region and to provide the SMEs with support and masterclass content delivered by a range of healthcare partners. The twelve […]

India: Union health secretary acknowledges need for enhanced BRICS collaboration to advance digital solutions at 77th World Health Assembly
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MIT researchers apply deep learning to correct motion-corrupted MRI scans

MIT researchers combine deep learning and physics to fix motion-corrupted MRI scans – The challenge involves more than just a blurry JPEG. Fixing motion artifacts in medical imaging requires a more sophisticated approach. Alex Ouyang | Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health – MIT News Researchers from MIT have […]

India: Union health secretary acknowledges need for enhanced BRICS collaboration to advance digital solutions at 77th World Health Assembly
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Amazon expands AWS HealthImaging service for medical data at scale

Amazon has announced the general availability of its AWS HealthImaging service, designed to help providers build cloud-native applications to store, analyse and share medical imaging data at petabyte-scale. The service is said to enable all of an organisation’s medical imaging applications access to “a single authoritative copy of data without duplication” […]

Dutch company NLC Health Ventures has announced that it has secured a total of €58 million in funding for health tech ventures.
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WHO launches freely accessible AI digital health worker

The World Health Organization (WHO), with support from the Qatar Ministry of Health, has launched an artificial intelligence digital health worker, Florence. The AI animated digital person is said to offer “an innovative and interactive platform to share a myriad of health topics in seven languages” and “share advice on […]