Robotics and AI in Healthcare

AI model extracts long-term health risks from routine sleep study data

The model identified five patient groups with different risks of cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline and death beyond conventional sleep apnoea measures....

Johnson & Johnson receives FDA authorisation for OTTAVA robotic surgical system

The table-integrated soft-tissue robotic system has been authorised for multiple general surgery procedures involving the upper abdomen....

Lucence’s Dr Tan Min-Han on expanding liquid biopsy and precision oncology across Asia

Greater access to genomic testing, local population data and real-world evidence will be central to widening the clinical use of liquid biopsy and precision medicine across Asian healthcare systems....

Associate Professor Daniel Ting on moving clinical AI from hospital pilots to routine care

Hospitals need secure deployment platforms, local validation, sustainable financing and clear governance to translate healthcare AI into safe, scalable clinical use....

Singapore team develops machine-learning tool to predict liver cancer recurrence

The multi-omics tool combines genomic and clinical data and outperformed TNM staging in identifying patients at risk of hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after surgery....

Inside Philips Pulse Connect: Where healthcare AI moves from concept to clinical practice

A visit to Philips’ innovation campus and St. Antonius Hospital showed how AI is being embedded across imaging, monitoring and minimally invasive treatment—not to replace clinicians, but to help scarce expertise reach more patients....

Lumen Technologies on securing healthcare data sharing and AI adoption in APAC

Wai Kit Cheah, APAC CISO & Connected Ecosystem Leader at Lumen Technologies, discusses healthcare data portability, AI governance and cyber resilience across Singapore and the wider APAC region....

Xenter raises $58.25M to expand wireless medical device platform

The funding will support commercial launch of XenFi and planned clinical testing of the Guru dual-sensor physiology guidewire in TAVR procedures....

TytoCare raises $25M to scale AI-enabled remote examination platform

The company is expanding its FDA-cleared remote examination and SaMD platform for cardiopulmonary, oncology and chronic disease care....

Autonomous Healthcare receives FDA De Novo authorization for ventilator waveform software

Syncron-E detects evidence of ineffective patient efforts in ventilated adults, creating a new FDA device category for ventilator waveform analysis software....