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A person checking their smartwatch-tracked fitness data on their smartphone.
By Adam Ang 07:30 am November 25, 2024
The Health Promotion Board is piloting two preventative health programmes with Google and Abbott involving 6,000 Singaporeans.
Doctor smiles and waves into a laptop during a telehealth visit
By Andrea Fox 10:30 am November 14, 2024
The agency is proposing telehealth access grants to establish fixed, secure environments outfitted with reliable internet and secure video that connect veterans hobbled by the digital divide to health services.
A doctor reviewing a patient's file on a desktop computer
By Adam Ang 06:55 pm November 10, 2024
Also, Australia's aged care research centre has received additional funding to deploy AI.
Stethoscope resting on tablet
By Andrea Fox 08:19 am November 08, 2024
In discussing social determinants of health data utilization, Dr. Hilary Hatch, chief clinical officer at Phreesia, describes how analytics and patient engagement tools are streamlining workflows and helping providers respond to more patients in need.
User authenticates laptop access on a mobile phone with required MFA
By Andrea Fox 10:15 am November 07, 2024
The computing giant says it will phase its roll-out of required multifactor authentication to all users worldwide next year. 
Clinician reviews medical notes on a tablet
By Andrea Fox 09:45 am October 30, 2024
The AP reports that OpenAI's Whisper documentation platform is prone to hallucinations, and to making up sentences and sections of text across millions of recordings. Tens of thousands of transcriptions could be faulty.
Laptop on a mans lap sitting on an oak wood floor
By Andrea Fox 10:51 am October 29, 2024
The agency warns that a Western organized cybercrime group that leverages multiple ransomware variants and AI tools to commit advanced social engineering exploits may target healthcare data.
A nurse talking to a senior patient in a wheelchair
By Adam Ang 12:01 am October 28, 2024
Subsyndromal depression is said to be five times more common than clinical depression among Singaporean seniors.
Jong Yeob Kim of Korea Health Industry Development Institute at HIMSS24 APAC
By Adam Ang 09:57 pm October 13, 2024
Started amid the recent pandemic, smart hospitals are now being expanded nationwide.
Anthony Lucatuorto of Sphere, Powered by TrustCommerce, on consumerism
By Bill Siwicki 10:24 am October 12, 2024
That's the view of a tech CEO who discusses problems with the patient experience and what may happen if hospitals and health systems embrace digital tools on the patient-facing side.