By Subhro Mallik As the life sciences industry braces itself for the rising challenges of keeping up patient and employee engagement, there is an overriding need for resilience. Considering the major shocks and stresses felt by the industry in recent years, life sciences organizations must learn to repair, recuperate, and spring back faster and better … Read more
By Dr Alexander Kuruvilla The healthcare industry has witnessed remarkable progress in delivering quality patient care and safety in recent decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has catalysed the industry to push the boundaries of innovation and reimagine healthcare delivery. Health tech, the convergence of health and technology, has been one of the most transformative outcomes of … Read more
New Delhi: Health tech startup HealthPlix Technologies on Wednesday said it has raised $22 million (around Rs 181 crore) in Series C funding led by Avataar Venture Partners, SIG Venture Capital and existing investors. The fresh capital will be used to ramp up product innovation, enhance the technology stack and scale user acquisition efforts. “At … Read more
Mandi: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi have analysed the different factors that affect herding in adoption of wearable technologies for personal healthcare. They have used mathematical models to analyse data collected from surveys to provide insights into the marketing effectiveness of online reviews. The findings of the research have been published in … Read more
Dhaka: Millions of adolescents in Bangladesh will be able to access health information and services through two online portals launched at the National Adolescent Health Conference. The Adolescent Health website and mobile application, launched by the Bangladeshi Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with support from the UN children’s fund UNICEF and the Embassy of … Read more
San Francisco, An Apple watch has reportedly been credited for detecting undiagnosed heart blockage in a woman. A woman named Elain Thompson suffered seizures in 2018 and as part of her post-diagnosis treatment, her daughter suggested her to wear an Apple Watch to monitor her health, reports AppleInsider. Thompson recently received an alert from her … Read more
Jaipur: The health department issued directions to update and verify professional and personal details on the ‘health portal’. The department has clarified that the Dynamic Assured Career Progression (DACP), permission for foreign travel, NoC required for different works, transfers, postings and all such works will be done through the health portals from now onwards. The … Read more
Washington: Researchers from the University of Jyvaskyla and the Central Finland Health Care District have developed an AI-based neural network to detect early knee osteoarthritis from x-ray images. AI was able to match a doctor’s diagnosis in 87 per cent of cases. The result is important because x-rays are the primary diagnostic method for early … Read more
By Dr Indoo Ambulkar Breast cancer, is the most prevalent form of cancer affecting women, can occur when there’s an abnormal growth of cells in any of the breasts that accumulate and form a lump or a mass. Hormonal, lifestyle and environmental factors are some of the major risk factors of breast cancer. This could … Read more
Orlando: Developing life-saving drugs can cost billions of dollars and take decades, but researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence-based drug screening technique by using that they hope to shorten the process. Using a method that models drug and target protein interactions using natural language processing techniques, the researchers achieved up to 97% accuracy in … Read more