HealthTech Roundup! #005

Welcome to the June issue of HealthTech Roundup! This month kicked off with a bang 🧨 at the Digital Health Festival in Melbourne. The event brought together brilliant minds, thought-provoking presentations and cool new innovations in healthcare technology – get in touch if you're after specific insights. Now, for this month’s must-knows:

First up, some news bites 🥪:

• apoQlar is powering the future of surgery and clinical education by developing a mixed-reality experience via Microsoft’s HoloLens to provide surgeons with 3D x-ray vision during procedures. Watch the video 🤯

• The Australian Digital Health Agency announced that a Council for Connected Care has been launched to accelerate healthcare data sharing. Read it with: interoperability should be a ‘moonshot’.

• New study published in JMIR reveals healthcare AI patent trends over the past decade and identifying medical specialties that will require focused regulations. The findings empower policymakers to anticipate healthcare trends and regulate AI technology effectively.

• Wesfarmers are set to bolster their Health division with the acquisition of InstantScripts, one of Australia’s leading telehealth businesses.

• Sanofi went all-in on AI including an enterprise-wide “Everything App” to enable real-time insights and scenario planning for decision-makers – this is a visual snapshot of Sanofi’s AI ecosystem. Read it with: Eli Lilly’s CEO shares 3 ways AI could transform the pharma industry; they’ve entered a partnership with XtalPi Inc to leverage AI for drug discovery.
  

• Ambient intelligence is quickly gaining popularity by listening in on consultations to write-up notes and help with decision support. Check out what Carbon Health is doing in the primary care space.
  

Finally, leaving you with a futurist tidbit 🤖:

• Endel and Universal Music Group have linked up to create AI-powered music which promotes wellbeing based on the user’s real-time biometric and environmental inputs.