South Korea forms national commission for promoting bio-health tech and more briefs
South Korea establishes a national biohealth commission
The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) recently issued the presidential decree establishing the Bio-health Innovation Commission.
This committee, according to a press release, aims to promote the local biohealth industry and provide systemic support for the integration of the latest technologies, including AI and nanotechnology. It acts as a “control tower” of the government headed by the Prime Minister and consists of twelve ministries, including the MOHW, and experts from academia and the biohealth industry.
All members will work together to review and discuss policies and plans to support the development, commercialization, insurance coverage, and market expansion of biohealth technologies. Previously, these processes were hampered by the compartmentalization of different government agencies.
Indonesia facilitates access to health data about its population
Indonesia’s Ministry of Health has built an all-in-one Data Services Portal to access population health data.
The ministry has collaborated with the Health Development Policy Agency and the Data and Information Center to establish the said portal, which provides access to information, including information related to COVID-19 and national surveys such as the Indonesian Nutrition Status Survey, Basic Health Research and Health Facilities. Research. It also contains downloadable documents related to national and local health data collection, such as questionnaires, codebooks, guidelines and reports.
The Data Service Portal is open to the public, particularly researchers, academics, analysts and policy makers, for the collection and use of data as a basis for formulating health-related research, policies and programs.
Lunit announces expanded partnership with Seha Virtual Hospital in Saudi Arabia
Lunit has expanded its partnership with the Seha Virtual Hospital (SVH) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The country has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with SVH to jointly contribute to the kingdom’s national cancer screening programme. Lunit will deliver its suite of AI cancer detection solutions to SVH’s network of 150 hospitals with initial deployments in the King Saud Medical City in Riyadh and a group of eight hospitals in Makkah. Under the MOU, they will also jointly develop an AI-based CT analyzer for more accurate diagnosis of cancer and tuberculosis, and secure high-quality healthcare data to improve Lunit’s AI models.
The MOU comes on top of that existing cooperationwhich started in July, to validate Lunit’s solutions within the SVH network.
This expanded partnership also comes as Lunit joins the Saudi Vision 2030 Healthcare Sandbox, which facilitates the digital transformation of the kingdom’s healthcare sector by providing partners with a business-friendly environment to conduct collaborations, attract investments and acquire business expansion opportunities.
Ajou University Hospital is building a large AI-based medical imaging solution with Kakao Brain
South Korea’s Ajou University Hospital is partnering with Kakao Brain in an ambitious project to develop the world’s largest diagnostic aid solution for medical imaging based on ultra-large AI.
They recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding in which they agreed to establish the necessary research infrastructure for data learning, participate in academic exchanges to promote ultra-large AI models, and evaluate those AI models for commercialization.
Ajou University Hospital is one of nine university hospitals that have joined Kakao Brain’s ongoing research program to advance the use of AI in the medical field.
RailTel and LifeSigns to establish fiber-based connectivity in rural India for remote health monitoring
Patient monitoring solutions provider LifeSigns has entered into a strategic partnership with RailTel Corporation to enable fiber-based connectivity in rural India, enabling remote health monitoring.
Leveraging RailTel’s fiber optic networks, LifeSigns will deploy its patient monitoring solution for 1,000 days in 1,000 rural and tertiary cities across the country, a press release said. The solution provides healthcare providers and physicians with access to 24-hour, uninterrupted, near-real-time streaming of patient data from various environments – at home, in hospitals and in the ambulance.
MediBuddy signs new partnership to deliver digital healthcare in rural India
Digital health platform MediBuddy has partnered with microfinance company Satin Creditcare Network to expand access to healthcare to low-income communities in rural areas in India.
It leverages the reach of Satin Creditcare, which provides financial assistance to households excluded from mainstream financial service providers, to provide comprehensive healthcare services including doctor consultations, blood tests and health insurance, particularly targeting women living in rural areas.