AI

Qritive's Pantheon platform running in the background
By  Adam Ang 06:14 am January 10, 2023
Medical AI startup Qritive has pooled $7.5 million in a funding round led by MassMutual Ventures and supported by Enterprise Singapore's investment arm SEEDS Capital and Exfinity Venture Partners.  WHAT IT DOES Founded in 2017, the Singapore-headquartered company offers diagnostic support solutions that provide fast and accurate pathological interpretations "within seconds." Its digital pathology...
 Lunit INSIGHT CXR
By  Adam Ang 10:36 pm January 5, 2023
LifeSemantics teases pulmonary rehabilitation DTx  South Korean digital health company LifeSemantics is launching its digital therapeutics product that helps with the pulmonary rehabilitation of people with COPD. The Redpill Breath DTx helps users self-rehabilitate their respiratory functions at home. It monitors their oxygen saturation and walking performance in real time, sends text alerts in...
Dozee smart connected bed
By  Adam Ang 12:56 am December 23, 2022
Dozee scores 510(k) for AI contactless sensor for RPM Indian medical device company Dozee has received the United States Food and Drug Administration's 510(k) clearance for its proprietary contactless sensor for remote patient monitoring. The Dozee sensor sheet, which is placed under a hospital bed mattress, captures micro-vibrations from patients using Ballistocardiography. These vibrations are...
Coreline Soft's AVIEW line of AI imaging diagnostic solutions
By  Adam Ang 01:53 am December 20, 2022
South Korean medical AI company Coreline Soft has obtained medical device certifications from Singapore's Health Sciences Authority for its line of AI diagnostic support solutions. Founded in 2012, the company develops AI imaging diagnosis solutions, specialising in thoracic disorders.  It gained approvals from Singapore's HSA for the following nine software solutions:  AVIEW LCS, an AI-based...
Ubie's AI symptom checker app for patients
By  Adam Ang 11:34 pm December 8, 2022
Japanese health tech startup Ubie has snapped up $19 million more in an extended Series C funding round. The round was joined by Sogo Medical Co., AAIC Investment, Japan Impact Investment II Limited Partnership, Rakuten Capital, Shoko Chukin Bank, Japan Finance Corporation, and Mizuho Bank. This adds to the $26 million raised in its first Series C round in August, which now totals $45 million. To...
Echo IQ's EchoSolv running on a digital tablet
By  Adam Ang 12:02 am December 8, 2022
ASX-listed medical AI company Echo IQ has launched its cloud-based platform for screening structural heart disease in the United States. WHAT IT DOES The software platform called EchoSolv supports the identification of structural heart diseases, including guideline-defined aortic stenosis at present, automating this process using AI. It can also complete bulk assessments at a rate of up to 48,000...
Healthcare provider reviewing a scanned image on a screen
By  Jessica Hagen 01:36 pm November 28, 2022
Med-tech company iCAD announced it would incorporate Google Health's mammography AI technology into its breast-imaging solutions thanks to a strategic development and commercialization agreement.  Cancer detection and therapy solutions platform iCAD will utilize Google's AI breast-imaging technology in its portfolio, including its clinical decision support tool for breast cancer risk-estimation...
A clinician using Lunit INSIGHT MMG
By  Adam Ang 11:19 pm November 27, 2022
South Korean medical AI company Lunit is further cementing its global presence after securing a new international distribution deal and major market approvals.  Last week, it announced that Lunit INSIGHT CXR and MMG have been given the UK Conformity Assessed marking and CE marking under the latest Medical Device Regulation in Europe.  The company claims it has become the first software as medical...
NirogStreet website
By  Adam Ang 06:06 am November 25, 2022
Ayurveda tech startup NirogStreet snaps up $12M in Series B funding NirogStreet, an Ayurveda technology platform in India, has scored $12 million in a Series B funding round led by Jungle Ventures. It provides a community for Ayurveda doctors and an e-commerce platform that streamlines the supply chain of Ayurvedic services and medicine. NirogStreet has onboarded around 50,000 medical...
A caregiver kneeling beside a senior patient on a wheelchair
By  Adam Ang 09:57 pm November 21, 2022
Fujitsu and Wakayama Medical University in Japan will conduct joint trials of new fall detection technologies to monitor patients in highly private spaces, including hospital rooms and nursing homes. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Over the next 16 months, they will test Fujitsu's millimetre-wave sensor, which collects point cloud data to accurately estimate body postures, and the Actlyzer AI technology that...