ANZ news
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...
New Zealand-listed primary care provider Green Cross Health is moving towards virtual care with the launch of its new consumer health app.
WHAT IT DOES
According to a media release, The Doctors app allows users to seamlessly connect with their GPs. It also provides access to their health summary and allows booking appointments, requesting repeat prescriptions, messaging their primary care team,...
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...
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...
Singular Health scores 510(k) for 3D DICOM viewer software
ASX-listed medical technology firm Singular Health Group has received a 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for 3Dicom MD.
The software-as-a-medical device allows medical practitioners to collaboratively visualise standard CT/MRI and PET scans in 2D and 3D in real time. It also has built-in voice and text chat and...
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,...
A research team led by engineers and neurologists at RMIT University has come up with a mobile app that uses a person's voice to screen for Parkinson's disease and severe COVID-19.
HOW IT WORKS
The app uses AI to analyse the changes in a person's voice in just 10 seconds. The research gathered voice recordings of people with Parkinson's and a control group saying three sounds – A, O, and M,...
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