The University of Queensland is now expanding its aphasia therapy programme to reach more patients living in rural and regional areas.
A year since it was launched at Metro North Health’s Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service in Brisbane, the Comprehensive High-Dose Aphasia Treatment (CHAT) programme will be tried out in seven hospitals and health service sites in Queensland, New South...
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...
ASX-listed Advanced Human Imaging has restructured its board while completing its takeover of Canadian digital health company wellteq.
In a corporate disclosure, AHI announced the appointment of wellteq CEO and co-founder Scott Montgomery as its incoming CEO.
Montgomery has helped build wellteq, serving as CEO, President and director, since its inception in 2013. He has over two decades of...
See-Mode Technologies, a medtech startup based in Melbourne, Australia and Singapore, has received the approval of Health Canada for its software product that supports breast and thyroid ultrasound examinations.
Founded in 2017, the company develops AI to better predict the risk of stroke and vascular diseases by improving the analysis of ultrasound images. Its flagship product, Augmented...
South Korean medical AI company Lunit has become the preferred machine reading solution for BreastScreen NSW's early breast cancer detection programme.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
BSNSW is part of the national BreastScreen Australia Program which aims to improve the survival rates of women with breast cancer. It offers free mammograms to women aged 40 and above to detect breast cancer early.
A year after...
Aged care technology companies Hayylo and Umps have partnered to integrate their offerings and enable providers to adapt to home aged care reforms.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The integration will combine Hayylo's care service platform with Umps Link, a smart home and personal alarm technology currently being used by around 300,000 Australians.
Through this, care insights generated through the Umps Link...
Artrya secures UK, EU approvals for Salix
Within a week, ASX-listed medtech company Artrya received both regulatory approvals from the European Union and the United Kingdom for its Salix Coronary Anatomy product.
The AI-powered software identifies and analyses arterial plaque to diagnose coronary artery disease.
The recent certifications allow Artrya to market Salix in 28 EU member countries and...
PainChek, ASX-listed developer of a mobile pain assessment app that has been widely used in the aged care sector, is now entering the global hospital market via its latest partnership with InterSystems.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Through this partnership, PainChek will use the InterSystems IRIS for Health data platform to integrate with EMR systems, including InterSystems TrakCare, which manages over a...
The Australian government has awarded grants to research projects working on wearable technology to improve health monitoring for Australians.
A project at Curtin University, which has been provided with A$1.5 million ($950,000) funding, will develop and test wearable sensors to monitor the movement of children with cerebral palsy who are unable to walk.
Another project at the University of New...
Researchers from Neuroscience Research Australia and the University of New South Wales have come up with an algorithm that provides an accurate measurement of walking steadiness and speed.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Dubbed Watch Walk, the digital gait biomarker algorithm measures gait with a smart watch’s in-built accelerometer. It measures aspects of an individual's manner of walking, such as posture,...
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