HealthTech RoundUp! #008

Welcome to the November issue of HealthTech Roundup! This month’s AI.Care conference in Melbourne made headlines in Australia’s digital health space with the launch of the National Policy Roadmap for AI in Healthcare.

Healthcare innovation and technology, start-ups, and government continue to propel us into the future of healthcare – hop on the 🛷 and let’s roll:

First up, some news bites 🥪:

• Mayo Clinic is boldly introducing new facilities with a combination of innovative care concepts and digital technologies that will give them the ability to scale transformation in ways never before imagined. Read it with: Doctor AI and your digital twin – the future of diagnosis.

• Digital twins are becoming more accessible and enable precision medicine and personalisation, like the ability to test therapeutics on simulated models of human hearts.

• The evolution of mobile health predicts five trends for 2024: AI-driven diagnostics, augmented reality in healthcare, continued growth of wearable insights, normalising remote care, and personalised health treatments.  

• HCPs in Singapore to get AI training as the country continues to push towards preventative care. Singapore aims to harness AI to focus on delivering better diagnosis and treatment, early detection, prevention and prediction of diseases and faster drug development.

• Tiny wireless wearables can monitor health by capturing various body sounds which surpass traditional stethoscopes by providing real-time and simultaneous patient monitoring.

• In the pharma and diagnostics space, AstraZeneca announced the launch of Evinova, their health-tech business, and Roche continues to be active in digital health with over 100 partnerships.

• The Australian government has committed to $30.8M for health research co-designed with First Nations people, including to find new ways of delivering care to remote communities.

Now, let’s take a look at what’s happening in the start-ups space🚀:

• Check out this awesome list of 250 Global HealthTech disrupters with an emphasis on solving critical healthcare pain points!

• The Digital Health Festival 2024 has announced a startup program that focuses on innovation to revolutionise healthcare. Predictions are that the start-ups will be flexing AI muscles and deploying digital humans to help strengthen the healthcare ecosystem.

Finally, leaving you with a futurist tidbit 🤖:

• Patients in children’s hospitals and residents at aged care facilities will soon be able to hang out with Abi the robot at scale. The humanoid companion is currently being trialled at facilities across Australia’s Eastern seaboard.