Digital Health News
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Healthcare through satellite communications
Digital Health | Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 20 Dec, 2014
Singapore: Millions of people in Southeast Asia today lack access to affordable, quality healthcare. According to Rural Poverty, four billion people in Asia are scattered throughout rural ...Read more
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Covidien acquires Reverse Medical Corporation
Digital Health | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 30 Aug, 2014
Singapore: Covidien, a medical device manufacturing company announced that it has acquired Reverse Medical Corporation, a privately held California-based medical device company focused on e...Read more
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Designing wearables for healthcare
Digital Health | Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 20 Dec, 2014
Singapore: The healthcare industry is looking for new ways to manage resources as the demand for beds grows in tandem with ageing populations across Asia. Today's talk of the town is the we...Read more
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Its splitsville for 123-year-old Philips!
Digital Health | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 25 Sep, 2014
Singapore: This dramatic split of Netherland-based Philips into two separate entities - HealthTech-Lifestyle business and Lighting business is expected to allow the company to focus more in...Read more
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BlackBerry, NantHealth unveil patient management system
Digital Health | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 09 Jan, 2015
Singapore: In collaboration with BlackBerry, a global leader in mobile communications, NantHealth recently unveiled the next generation, HBox, a portable medical device that captures and tr...Read more
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Big data analysis to study parkinson's disease
Digital Health | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 29 Aug, 2014
Singapore: Chip giant Intel has partnered with Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and is working on a study that will pull patterns from data collected from patients' wearabl...Read more
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Digital Health | Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 10 Sep, 2014
There's no doubt that the healthcare industry is witnessing a tectonic shift. Digital health, which is the convergence of genetic and digital platform technologies, will become the new norm...Read more
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Bosch expands into healthcare in India
Digital Health | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 29 Aug, 2014
Singapore: "We have been making concerted efforts to further strengthen our non-automotive business in the Indian market. The launch of the eye screening and detection system is a step in t...Read more
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Microsoft lends a helping hand for Ebola research
Digital Health | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 22 Oct, 2014
Singapore: In a recent press gathering, Microsoft announced that they will provide free cloud-computing and research applications to qualified medical researchers working on the Ebola virus...Read more
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Korean doctors skeptical about Telemedicine
Digital Health | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 24 Sep, 2014
Singapore: Korean doctors have expressed concern over the controversial telemedicine bill that is expected to be effective by next year. Doctors opine that they will no longer be able to pr...Read more
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Now, headphones that measure heart rate
Digital Health | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 28 Aug, 2014
Singapore: Intel is all set to challenge Samsung and Apple in developing cool wearable health devices. Reportedly, the company has partnered with SMS Audio, a global headphone and accessori...Read more
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A computer program to detect antimicrobial resistance
Digital Health | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 08 Jan, 2015
Singapore: With major health organizations like the CDC, WHO sounding alarm bells over the continued rise in antibiotic resistance, researchers across the globe are brainstorming newer meth...Read more
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Tele-medicine consultations in India witness remarkable surge during 2014
Digital Health | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2014
Singapore: Close to 120,402 tele-consultations to rural communities in UP and Bihar, India, has been delivered by the World Health Partners (WHP), a non-profit organization which provides h...Read more
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Is Singapore ready for a paradigm shift in healthcare management?
Digital Health | Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 28 Aug, 2014
As the health sector's centre of gravity shifts towards customers, savvy new market players are moving fast to capitalize on the change. These new entrants are poised to shake up the indust...Read more
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Scientists develop an app to detect Parkinson's
Digital Health | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 15 Sep, 2014
Singapore: Scientists have developed a new smartphone app that can detect early signs of Parkinson's disease much before people experience tremors. The app picks up subtle changes in a per...Read more
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Columbia Asia to invest $150 mn in India, SE Asia
Digital Health | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 10 Sep, 2014
Singapore: US-based Columbia Pacific Management, provider of hospital systems, plans to invest USD150 million to expand its network to 34 hospitals and one clinic by 2018 in south east Asia...Read more
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Digital Health | Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 22 Sep, 2014
Singapore: One of the hottest topics on the horizon in the today's healthcare industry is Digital Health, but what does that term mean exactly? According to the Digital Health Institute, "D...Read more
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Amidst rapid growth: Catching our breath
Digital Health | Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 27 Aug, 2014
Digital Health has gained legitimacy and achieved record growth over the past few years. Most industry pundits forecast this growth to continue for at least the next ten years. One recent...Read more
