HealthTech Roundup! #006

With tech giants marching into the healthcare scene and AI products becoming more accessible, there's so much more to explore in the digital health and innovation space. So, put on your party hat and let's dive in! 🥳

First up, some news bites 🥪:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its generative AI-based clinical documentation service, HealthScribe, which aims to streamline notetaking for healthcare providers.

• Google’s Med-PaLM is officially live and performs a diverse array of biomedical tasks including medical question answering, image interpretation (dermatology, chest X-ray, mammography, pathology), and radiology report summarisation! So, basically the Swiss-army knife of medical generative AI.

• The global digital twin healthcare market is projected to reach $21B by 2028, offering various advantages including accurate patient modelling, personalised medicine and treatment planning, and monitoring, leading to improved clinical decision-making and outcomes. Read it with: The future of healthcare: new technologies, IoT and more.

• As healthcare apps and software proliferates, a new institute – Peterson Health Technology Institute – aims to cut through the hype by publishing methodology for assessing new healthtech.

• Mass-produced humanoid robot to tackle healthcare workforce shortages and are already supporting patients with post-surgery rehabilitation.

Now, let’s take a look at these early innovators 🚀:

• The Western Australian gov’t has named the 10 finalists that will complete in a $5M digital health challenge.

• Spotify CEO’s has a healthtech start-up - Neko Health and is exploring AI-powered preventative healthcare scans for skin and heart conditions. will this be as big as the music platform?

• The International Medical Robotics Academy continues to produce synthetic organs and fake torsos to help surgeons learn how to work with robots and virtual reality to improve patient outcomes.

Finally, leaving you with a futurist tidbit 🤖:

• Pharma and healthcare organisations continue to expand in the Metaverse – patient digital twins are soon to visit immersive hospitals through virtual reality headsets for physio treatments which will use cameras to monitor the patient’s range of motion in the physical world.