The past year saw varying levels of digital transformations going around the health systems in Asia-Pacific. It has increasingly become evident that digitalisation – from nationwide networks down to individual hospitals – has become the…
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A substantial share of patients at risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) fail to achieve control of CVD risk factors, but clinicians lack a structured approach to identify these patients. We applied machine learning…
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What You Should Know:
– Today, the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) unveiled a suite of resources to guide industry in evaluating international regulatory pathways. These resources equip digital health technology developers with essential tools to compare…
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What You Should Know:
– A new cancer treatment and research era is dawning in Japan with the launch of LC-SCRUM-CD (Lung Cancer Genome Screening Project for Individualized Medicine – Clinical Development).
– The nationwide clinical…
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Collaborative research in Asia has called for prudence in using popular large language model-based (LLM) chatbots as part of public health research and response.In a study, which findings were published in BMJ, researchers from…
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Privacy, systems interoperability, and lack of research capability are some of the biggest challenges in utilising big data for national precision medicine projects in advanced health systems in Asia.Health leaders from Taiwan, South Korea, and…
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Demonstrating benefits to patients and clinicians will greatly drive interoperability, health information exchange and medical record digitalisation in Asia-Pacific.Dr Mahesh Appannan, Ministry of Health Malaysia’s head of digital health, Seyoung Jung, assistant professor and CIO of Seoul National…
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Medical education in Asia may be headed to a future where institutions are not only training students but also training AI models. In the HIMSS24 APAC session, “Implementing AI in Healthcare,” Dr Hyung-Chul Lee, deputy…
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HIMSS today announced an update to its Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity at the HIMSS24 Asia-Pacific conference in Seoul.The earlier version of AMAM will now be referred to as AMAM Classic and the modernised…
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Remote surgeries, holographic medical imaging, mixed reality, and patient tracking are some of the emerging 5G-powered healthcare innovations in the Asia-Pacific region.Dr Gao Yujia, assistant group CTO of the National University Health System; William Chan,…
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