Emerging Technologies

Dr Yujia Gao, assistant group chief technology officer at the National University Health System, relays how mixed reality is transforming the health systems' operations, including provider workflow and surgical planning for transplants.

GlobalData's survey of 114 healthcare professionals showed 43% of respondents believe a lack of specialized skills and talents is the primary challenge they face with digital transformation.

The digital therapeutics company and virtual chronic pain-management program will combine their offerings to create a digital care-management solution for chronic pain.

Dr. Patrick Carroll, chief medical officer at Hims & Hers, describes the company's EMR and how its datasets power MedMatch, its new AI offering for mental health providers.

The healthcare generative AI company's Sculpted AI leverages Amazon's Bedrock, Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon SageMaker Canvas.

The Michigan-based cancer care center and medtech giant will create a framework to support scalable solutions that help advance precision medicine in the U.S. 

Behavioral health platform Eleos Health, virtual chronic care company Vida Health and virtual peer support company Forum also garner investment.

Also, the mental health app Here Hear in Taiwan is set to introduce an AI chatbot.

Andromeda Robotics is currently conducting an aged care trial of its Chat GPT-4-powered companion robot.

The device developed by Hong Kong researchers is said to be 40% more effective for rehabilitation of ankle-foot following a stroke than applying external mechanical forces alone.