Hong Kong

Two elderly persons using a tablet computer
By  Adam Ang 02:11 am January 13, 2022
A digital brain assessment tool by ASX-listed neuroscience tech company Cogstate is coming to Taiwan and Hong Kong.  On Thursday, the Cogstate announced that CogMate, the global multilingual version of its NouKNOW digital tool for self-assessment of brain performance, will be distributed by pharmaceutical firm Eisai in the two Asian markets. WHAT IT DOES Accessible via web and mobile devices,...
Facade of the HelloLyf HX hospital in Nagaland, India
By  Adam Ang 01:42 am December 10, 2021
New York-based UpHealth brings patient management software to India's Nagaland  HelloLyf, a patient management, digital health and decision support software by New York-listed digital health firm UpHealth, has come to the state of Nagaland in India with the opening of the company's latest health facility there. The digital hospital HelloLyf HX provides outpatient care, emergency care, radiology...
One of the fulfilment centres of 111 in China.
By  Adam Ang 03:27 am August 20, 2021
111 to build a disease management platform with Bayer Chinese healthcare platform 111 has expanded its existing partnership with global drug maker Bayer Healthcare Co.  The two companies first entered into a strategic partnership last year in September to market innovative drugs and healthcare products for chronic disease management. A digital platform was also built to provide online pharmacist...
A screenshot of the Cigna website.
By  Adam Ang 03:18 am August 10, 2021
Hong Kong-headquartered health service firm Cigna International announced today the launch of a digital tool that can evaluate a person's stress level. The company has partnered with AI medical technology company Ellipsis Health to develop the Cigna StressWaves Test, which is touted to be the world's first voice-activated stress test.  WHAT IT DOES Based on a press statement, the StressWaves Test...
By  Adam Ang 04:03 am July 16, 2021
Regulatory body approves POC use of Cue Health's COVID-19 test in India Cue Health, a California-based health tech company, has recently got regulatory approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation for its COVID-19 test for professional point-of-care use in India. The company claims its molecular-based diagnostic test provides "highly accurate, lab-quality results" that are sent...
By  Adam Ang 11:44 pm July 6, 2021
A research team at Hong Kong Polytechnic University has developed optical fibre sensors used in railway safety monitoring technologies for health monitoring. WHAT IT DOES In a statement, PolyU described the novel Side Hole Polymer Optical Fibre Sensors as "biocompatible, supple and extremely sensitive to very small pressure changes inside the human body". Professor Hwa-yaw Tam, lead researcher...
By  Adam Ang 02:36 am June 18, 2021
  CUHK, ConsenSys launch COVID-19 Passport System   The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Ethereum software company ConsenSys have launched a health passport platform that runs on blockchain technology.   According to a press release, the Medoxie COVID-19 Digital Health Passport platform records test results, temperature checks and vaccinations in a "decentralised, private, and secure...
A doctor reading chest x-ray scans.
By  Thiru Gunasegaran 03:34 am April 21, 2021
SenseTime, an artificial intelligence company, has earned a CE mark to market its latest AI-powered diagnostic software that detects abnormalities in chest x-ray readings. WHY IT MATTERS Radiologists face heavy workloads in manually reviewing and analysing large quantities of CXR images daily. Misdiagnosis is also a concern due to the complexity of body parts being screened in CXRs. According to...
09:55 pm February 1, 2021
Reproductive health firm Suzhou Basecare Medical Co., Ltd will list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on February 8 2021. Founded in 2019 in Jiangsu, Basecare has attracted a lot of interest for its self-developed PGT-A test kit that accurately screens each embryo to detect developmental defects and ensure healthy development, allowing more infertile or at-risk couples in China to deliver healthy...
By  Dean Koh 04:17 am September 25, 2019
Shanghai-based CareVoice, a digital health startup targeting the insurance market, which announced an eight-figure Series A raise totaling roughly $10M at the end of August, today announced the launch of CareVoiceOS in mainland China and Hong Kong, a healthcare operating system that allows insurers to deliver health plans which are more tailored, efficient and compelling to their customers. WHAT’...