Tuesday, 10 November 2026

Medtech

DIAT Pune Scholars Gain Recognition at Falling Walls Lab for Healthcare Research

The Falling Walls Lab, organised by the Falling Walls Foundation, Berlin, provides a platform for researchers and innovators to present scientific breakthroughs and ideas addressing global challenges...

A Medical Device Can Work Perfectly And Still Fail To Improve Patient Care

Connected healthcare technologies must demonstrate clinical value through effective integration, reliable data, staff training and support beyond the product itself....

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....