Saturday, 31 October 2026

Medtech innovation

Mezoo: The Wonju Wearable Taking Patient Monitoring Beyond the Bedside

Born in Wonju's medical device cluster, Mezoo has turned a credit-card-sized chest patch into a monitoring platform used in more than 700 Korean hospitals and clinics. Fresh from a strong KOSDAQ debut and with approvals in nine countries, the company is now taking its HiCardi system to the world...

From Idea to Export: How Wonju Built Korea's Medical Device Launchpad

In Gangwon State, the Wonju Medical Industry Institute of Technology (WMIT) has spent more than two decades building something many regions talk about and few deliver: a single, connected system that takes a medical device company from its first idea to its first export contract...

HOPPR expands medical imaging AI portfolio with whole-body musculoskeletal X-ray narrative model

Beta model generates draft findings from up to three radiographic views and is available for evaluation rather than diagnostic use...

SetPoint Medical Treats First Boston Patient with FDA-Approved Neuroimmune Modulation System for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Only FDA-approved neuroimmune modulation therapy for rheumatoid arthritis is now available to adults throughout New England...

Google and Singapore deepen partnership to advance frontier AI for healthcare and scientific discovery

Initiatives include a Google Research hub, AI co-clinician evaluations with NUHS and a population health programme with NHG Health...

Trust Before Scale: How a Korean Running App Took the Hard Road to Europe and Asia

Running apps drown runners in data but go quiet when it actually hurts. Korean start-up MENINBLOX built Roopin, an AI coach that asks where the pain is. Then, instead of racing to scale, it went looking for regulators: first in Estonia, then in Indonesia....

Terumo BCT and Ribeirão Preto Blood Center automate blood processing in Brazil

Reveos systems will support standardisation, traceability and operational efficiency across a public blood network serving 5.5 million people in São Paulo...

UltraGreen.ai Highlights Global Expansion of Fluorescence-Guided Surgery at IHPBA World Congress

International experts are presenting on the use of ICG in liver transplantation, liver resection, pancreatic surgery and biliary procedures, alongside research exploring fluorescence quantification and newer targeted imaging technologies...

AI-PAM: The First Step Towards the Smart Hospital

In Gangwon, a CCTV software company and a national university hospital have taught a ceiling camera to recognise when a patient is about to fall. GeoMex Soft's AI-PAM is a small system aimed at the most common accident in Korean hospitals, and it shows where the smart hospital really begins....

MEPSGEN Launches NanoCalibur Mini for Small-Volume Nanoparticle Formulation

Automated system enables rapid, reproducible formulation screening with minimal sample consumption...