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Flipkart Health+ platform targets India’s digital health sector
Flipkart aims to crack India’s growing e-pharmacy and online health segment with the launch of its Flipkart Health+ platform. Read more…
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MWC22 wrap: 4YFN steals the show
MWC22 is over. Wired: 4YFN, health tech, sports tech, Ukraine, data and young people. Tired: old guys and metaverse-washing. Read more…
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Remote healthcare heats up in SEA and Foxconn plans to cash in
Foxconn plans to enter the Southeast Asian digital healthcare device market by 2023 via its upcoming remote healthcare monitoring platform. Read more…
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The metaverse is coming for your biometric and health data
Meta, Apple and Microsoft want to collect your biometric and health data. We need to change the way we deal with data before it’s too late. Read more…
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Healthcare is seeing unprecedented investment, innovation and disruption
Healthcare is a sector that we knew would not only survive but thrive in – ironically – the most dangerous pandemic of recent times. Read more…
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Foreign and local investors eye Malaysia’s growing digital healthcare
Singapore’s UNO Technologies is attempting to profit from Malaysia’s growing investment in the public and private healthcare systems. Read more…
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AI was going to save us from the pandemic but it failed for a simple reason
It turns out that AI is not great at everything – yet. We all thought that, somehow, AI would save the world from the pandemic. It didn’t. Read more…
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Healthcare: big tech’s biggest market and it’s changing more than medicine
Healthcare has been a major target for big tech companies for some years and now it is changing the shape of healthcare itself. Read more…
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Positively disrupting healthcare in Asia: CEO interview
Even with resilient digital infrastructures, trust may be a fundamental factor driving the transformation of healthcare in Asia. Read more…
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The pandemic has supercharged certain sectors – the numbers are in
The pandemic has clearly changed many things and we knew that some sectors got a real boost from various lockdowns. Surveys are coming in. Read more…
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Can our security woes be solved by the healthcare industry?
Talking of security, which we were very recently, it is extraordinary how healthcare innovations are throwing off a very useful by-product. Read more…
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‘Alexa, find me a doctor’ and the wearables revolution revs up
The wearables market seems to be extremely buoyant and expanding in interesting ways. It now seems as if wearables will become ubiquitous, and soon. Read more…
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Cyber attacks derail healthcare transformation plans
Cyber attacks can be so costly to APAC healthcare organizations that many are delaying digital transformation projects as a result: Frost & Sullivan study. Read more…
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Friday Futures: Robot pants and mystery SpaceX passenger
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: robot pants with matching minions; opposition to murderbot ban; SpaceX books first moonshot passenger; a box that Read more…
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Apple unveils a huge iPhone and a medical smart watch
CUPERTINO, Calif. (Reuters) – Apple introduced its largest-ever iPhone and a watch that detects heart problems on Wednesday in an attempt to get customers to upgrade to more expensive devices in the face of stagnant Read more…
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Can AI ambulances and robot doctors save China’s healthcare system?
HANGZHOU, China/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – In the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, an ambulance speeds through traffic on a wave of green lights, helped along by an artificial intelligence (AI) system and big data. The system, Read more…
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Immersive VR can reduce physical pain for ER patients
PARIS (Reuters) – The very thought of visiting a hospital emergency department is stressful enough for many people, even without the discomfort or pain of an examination or treatment. Enter an immersive virtual-reality (VR) program Read more…
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SCF initiative pitches small cells to healthcare sector
SCF (Small Cell Forum) announced that it is engaging with the healthcare sector to support the deployment of small cells in order to address the considerable risks of poor connectivity. Research commissioned by SCF shows Read more…
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Nokia unloads digital health unit as well as the guy who ran it
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia said on Thursday it had sold its small digital health business, including activity trackers and smartwatches, and the executive who wound down the company’s consumer ventures will leave Nokia after less Read more…
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AI is turning mobile phones into disruptive healthcare tools
One device will feature in the ‘tech for good’ projects of every humanitarian organization. The mobile phone – now in the hands of the vast majority of the world’s people – is fast becoming a Read more…
