Medtech

Singlife launches weight management programme with Novo Singapore and HMI Medical

The insurer-led programme offers eligible Singlife customers medically guided weight management through HMI OneCare clinics and telemedicine, with a programme fee of S$289 per month for suitable treatment and dosage....

Patient.com partners with ID.me to provide portable, verified patient identities

New integration gives consumers a streamlined, secure path to confirm who they are while keeping healthcare information separate and under their control....

World Sleep Society team proposes common standards for wearable sleep data

New Fundamental Sleep Measures (FSM) Specification establishes a common language for sleep tracking, paving the way for more meaningful clinical care, research, and public health....

AcuityMD Launches AI Research Agent for Faster MedTech Market Analysis

The agent runs multi-step analyses scoped to a company’s market, cited at every step, and re-runnable as new data arrives...

AI drug discovery must deliver repeatable value beyond hype: Insilico Medicine’s Feng Ren

Feng Ren discusses AI’s impact on target discovery, R&D productivity and clinical development, and Asia’s role in translating computational predictions into new medicines....

Clinical judgement remains central to robotic surgery: Dr Catherine Teh

Dr Catherine Teh discusses how robotics, fluorescence imaging and clinician-led innovation can support complex liver surgery, and what wider adoption across Asia will require....

Healthcare technology must be designed for scale, not just successful pilots

Dr Kamonlawan Chomchopbun of KPMG in Singapore, Dr May-Anne Cheong of SingHealth’s A.L.I.C.E. and Lars Wismer of Messe Düsseldorf Asia discuss why promising healthcare technologies struggle to move into routine care, what hospitals should measure before scaling, and how Southeast Asia can turn innovation into everyday implementation....

Terumo launches K-Pack Embrace active safety needle globally

The needle combines hard-shell packaging for automated co-packing with an integrated hinged safety shield designed to reduce needlestick injuries....

Asia must shift from treating illness to preventing disease: Kelvin Loh, AIA

Kelvin Loh, Group Chief Healthcare Officer at AIA, discusses how insurers, digital health, AI and behavioural science can help Asia's ageing populations live healthier lives while improving healthcare access and affordability....

Aevice Health gains FDA clearance for AI-powered wheeze detection software

The Class II decision-support software analyses lung sound recordings from compatible FDA-cleared electronic stethoscopes and flags recordings suggestive of wheeze for clinical review....