Health-IT

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today announced plans for a strategic partnership to connect Samsung’s ARTIK Smart IoT Platform to the Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform. This collaboration will ultimately allow the Samsung ARTIK ecosystem of connected devices to safely access and share information with Philips’ cloud platform. […]

Diabetes, a global public health problem which has reached epidemic proportions in India, can cause vision loss due to a sight-threatening complication called Diabetic retinopathy. However, 90% of the vision loss due to diabetic retinopathy is preventable by early detection and timely treatment. Until recently, diabetic retinopathy could only be detected by trained ophthalmologists and […]

Today, at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition in Las Vegas, NV, Microsoft announced the expansion of the Microsoft Intelligent Network for eye care (MINE), now AI Network for Healthcare, to create an AI-focused network in cardiology, in partnership with one of the largest health systems in India, Apollo […]

An Infosys research report titled, Digital Outlook for the Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry, highlights how digital technologies deployed at organizations are improving existing operations, solving new problems, and creating new opportunities. The research polled IT and business decision-makers in the healthcare and life sciences industry as part of a global survey to discover the […]

In its efforts to improve the quality of search results and to make it easier for patients to understand their medical symptoms, Google today rolled out a new feature called ‘Symptom Search’. With the latest feature update, users can now find quality information around various medical symptoms, right on their mobile devices. Starting this week, […]

ZeOmega®, an industry leader in population health management (PHM) solutions servicing healthcare organizations throughout the United States, announced today the opening of its new sister company—EldriCare™. Based in Bangalore and servicing all of India, EldriCare creates and coordinates personalized care plans that help improve outcomes and lower costs for the most complex populations suffering from […]

In the face of ever-increasing competition and evolving demands of patients in different geographies, healthcare service providers need to innovate and plan for digital transformation. In the developed world, they need to be equipped to treat an increasingly aging population whereas in the developing world, a big challenge still is how to reach more and […]

In its bid to offer quality medical consultation across geographical locations, DocsApp, a chat-based healthcare platform that connects patients to specialist doctors in less than 30 minutes, is now making inroads into the vernacular mobile space. In addition to the English version, the chat-based healthcare platform has introduced a Hindi interface. Users can now change […]

Recently, Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, announced that it has acquired VitalHealth, a leading provider of cloud-based population health management solutions for the delivery of personalized care outside of the hospital, for example, in regional care networks. Headquartered in the Netherlands, VitalHealth’s products and services are being used […]

Recently Microsoft Corp. announced the private preview of a new AI-powered project from Microsoft’s Healthcare NExT initiative, which is designed to enable their healthcare partners to easily create intelligent and compliant healthcare virtual assistants and chatbots. These bots are powered by cognitive services and enriched with authoritative medical content, allowing hospitals to empower their customers with […]