Just like the variety program, AIMed’s Shark Tank also welcomes an array of business pitches, preferably around the area of healthcare and new technology. This year, startups are encouraged to detail their ideas in no more than 500 words. The competition closed on 15 November and the seven finalists

Without a universal medical record system means patients often have to carry their test results or latest scan images with them as they consult different specialists. Having medical data resting on incompatible platforms may increase administrative hassles. The practice also heightens the chances of

It was probably the first time maestros behind constructing prosthetic limbs received feedbacks directly from users. The Child Prosthetics Research Collaboration was an initiative funded by UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), in which children with the needs for prosthetic limbs are

If there is a hierarchy of need for artificial intelligence in medicine, the lowest tier will probably be data. Medical information coming in the forms of written notes, test results, images and historical records etc. are all parked under which. These protected health information (PHI) captured by

How a workforce of robots (bots) could automate mundane tasks on an unprecedented scale across the healthcare landscape. In 1943, Thomas Watson, President of IBM, famously said: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, said in 1

The piece of research that we have just published in Nature Medicine demonstrates how a close collaboration between clinicians and data scientists can disrupt the current paradigm for generating medical evidence and lead to the development of meaningful clinical tools with the potential to improve p

Hanson Robotics became world-famous for lifelike droids, most notably the Sophia robot which has been made an honorary citizen of Saudi Arabia. But what, if anything could humanoid robots do for healthcare? We invited a spokesperson for Hanson Robotics to answer questions and allow you readers to de

According to Lee Kai-Fu, while the United States has had an advantage in number of top AI researchers, China is beginning to surge ahead in AI due to its powerful coupling of the eusurience of its entrepreneurs (Lee calls them “gladiators”) with the abundance of its data. As an attestation to his as

Sensely is an avatar-based, empathy-driven clinical platform that helps clinicians and patients better monitor and manage their health. Their virtual assistant, Molly, focuses on bringing the human touch into automated healthcare. We asked what success they’ve had so far? Sensely fact-file Establish