Multispecialty hospital group from Bengaluru Sparsh Hospitals has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with GE HealthCare to collaborate in the field of precision medicine.
Their partnership includes the development and validation of AI and other digital technologies that will potentially improve care in oncology, cardiology and neurology.
Dr. H Marzoeki Mahdi Hospital Bogorthe National Mental Health Referral Center in Indonesia, also recently signed an MOU with King’s College Hospital in London, United Kingdom, to establish a perinatal mental health center.
Up to 57% of all mothers in the country experienced ‘baby blues’ or mild depression after giving birth last year, based on data from Indonesia’s National Population and Family Planning Council.
Inspired by the Mother Baby Unit at King’s College Hospital, the new psychiatric facility at Marzoeki Mahdi Hospital will provide mental health care to pregnant women.
The unit will use EHRs to enter digitized patient records. “We are very keen to adopt a health data recording system, but one that can also maintain privacy, especially data related to mental health issues,” shared Marzoeki Mahdi Hospital Director Dr. Nova Riyanti Yusuf, in a statement.
Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital has collaborated with Swiss medical device company SmartCardia to increase its ability to detect arrhythmia.
The Mumbai-based tertiary hospital will implement the AI-powered SmartCardia 7L (seven-lead) patch, which transmits ECG and other critical vital data in near real-time, allowing doctors to access patient data directly through the cloud. It can also automatically alert healthcare teams to critical events.
“Smart devices that continuously monitor the patient’s heart will help save lives by allowing healthcare providers to respond quickly. Proactive and personalized management of heart disease will help deliver positive clinical outcomes for patients,” explains cardiology consultant Dr. Venkat D. Nagarajan from. , who is also KDAH’s lead for Heart Rhythm and Cardiac Device Services.
Robotic surgery is an important feature of Apollo Proton Cancer Center‘s recently launched Apollo Rectal Cancer Program.
ARC is the only center for rectal cancer in India, providing comprehensive and multidisciplinary care with a focus on rectal preservation. It also treats a range of rectal cancer problems, including large polyps, early rectal cancer and peritoneal surface malignancies.
Among the treatments, ARC offers robotic surgery for persistent disease, “removing the residual tumor and reconstructing it with advanced robotic surgical techniques” to avoid patients having to use a permanent bag or undergo a colostomy, according to APCC. colorectal consultant and robotic surgeon Dr. Venkatesh Munikrishnan.
In addition to robotic surgery, the organ-specific center also offers chemoradiotherapy and proton therapy.