Singaporean startup develops breath test for analysing fat burningMetanoia Sensing, a deep tech startup in Singapore, has come up with a breath analyser to help people monitor their fat burning and gain insights into their…
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Some telling new statistics from the Qualtrics XM Institute’s latest research on customer-facing employees show healthcare workers are less likely than the global average to say their teams are understaffed (7% versus 11%).But these…
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Dexcom takes G6 CGM to SingaporeGlobal CGM device maker Dexcom has launched its latest CGM system in Singapore.
Distributed through its partner DKSH Singapore, the prick-less Dexcom G6 CGM uses a wearable sensor and transmitter…
Life insurer AIA Singapore and telehealth company WhiteCoat have partnered to offer digital corporate mental health solutions.The partners are expanding their Think Well programme to provide text, video, and in-person mental health coaching and…
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Integrated Health Information Systems, Singapore’s national healthcare technology agency, has collaborated with Google Cloud and Accenture to promote the development of data-driven applications to “deliver more high-quality and digital-first healthcare experiences.”Accenture is helping deploy Apigee, Google Cloud’s API management platform, which will provide third-party developers access to data and services across iHiS’s managed systems to create new applications and capabilities.
The resulting flexible API-based architecture from this collaboration will serve as a “connective tissue across data sources and applications,” as per iHiS assistant chief executive Alan Goh.
Google Cloud has also built security features into the Apigee platform to provide iHiS full visibility over…
The Singapore General Hospital has started training its nurses in IV cannulation using VR technology.A team of SGH nurses, together with Serious Games Asia and sensor solutions developer Microtube Technologies, developed an immersive gamified training module called IV NIMBLE (Nursing Innovation in Mobility-based Learning) to enhance nurses’ training.
The module comprises a virtual patient avatar with which nurses can practice talking; a 3D-printed hand which mimics the texture of human skin; and a pressure sensor glove that gauges the pressure of cannulation. It also captures and presents data via an analytics dashboard for review.
First tried out six months ago by about 120 SGH nurses,…
