SingHealth has announced the testing of a facial recognition system for visitors to Outram Community Hospital (OCH) and SingHealth Tower, both located in the Singapore General Hospital, for a period of 6 months. The trial, which began in early September, employs a...
American Pharmaceutical Company Merck & Co. (MSD) recently announced the opening of a new secondary packaging facility in Singapore. The facility is expected to support the production of vaccines and biologics, including the company’s cancer immunotherapy...
The Glaucoma Hybrid Patient Class, a hybrid patient education model combining in-person and online platforms, was introduced on October 2022 by the Hanoi Eye Hospital and Novartis Vietnam. In contrast to conventional patient classes held face-to-face in hospitals,...
Gearing towards the establishment of the Philippine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Health (DOH), the British Embassy Manila, and the United Kingdom’s National Health Service Consortium for Global Health (NHSC) – represented by...
Greater Kuala Lumpur will serve as the Southeast Asia hub for Allm Inc, a provider of digital healthcare services with headquarters in Japan. Using its Join telemedicine platform, which is new to local medical experts, the company seeks to create a stroke network...
EOFlow, a Soutk Korean developer of wearable drug delivery systems, revealed that it has been granted approval from the Indonesian Ministry of Health to market its wearable insulin pump ‘EOPatch’ and controller ‘ADM.’ Its smartphone app...
The Thai government has just approved the construction of a THB 5 billion (USD 131 million) international medical hub in the touristy Phuket. The goal is to expand health- and wellness-related tourism. Construction of what is being branded as the Andaman International...
Lunit, a medical AI software company, stated its participation in the ‘Indonesia AI Healthcare Course’, to demonstrate its product INSIGHT CXR, a CE-marked AI software that detects abnormalities via chest x-ray, and to educate the value of AI in tuberculosis...
It has been recently announced that the Thai government has approved a budget of THB 3.85 billion (USD 100 million) for the construction of Siriraj station and hospital facility. It will connect the Light Red and Orange lines, making Siriraj Hospital the first in...
Malaysian Minister of Health Khairy Jamaluddin has announced five hospitals as sandbox sites for solution providers to test-bed medical and healthcare technologies. The five hospitals are the National Cancer Institute Putrajaya and Putrajaya Hospital in Putrajaya,...
Singapore-based biomedical start-up Hummingbird Bioscience, which specializes in developing antibodies for cancer treatment, on Friday launched a new facility to expand its scientific, and research and development capabilities. The 40,000 sq ft facility in Science...
The Philippine government will open at least 22 cancer hubs to help low income patients, the Department of Health (DoH) recently announced. This is part of the PHP 529 million (USD 9 million) Cancer Assistance Fund (CAF), a funding mechanism for poor patients mandated...
