Singapore-based health technology startup MyDoc has been focusing on healthcare management solutions for large enterprises since its inception in 2014. Its value-based suite of products allows employees to consult doctors through video chat, get online prescriptions, avail chronic disease management programs, get referrals for specialists and even gives access to insurance information. This integrates every …
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Healthcare Industry on High Alert as Drug-Resistant ‘Superbugs’ Pose Significant Threat
European Union’s wide-ranging team of doctors recently discovered dozen of antibiotic drug resistant bacteria, after which they developed an estimate of five bug types that can lead to substantial death and infection rates. The team found out that according to 2015 stats, over 6, 70,000 individuals were ill and nearly 33,110 met with death. They …
Online Drug Delivery System to Take a Toll in India with Decreased Healthcare Costs
Buying medicines online has turned out to be the latest trend among the consumers and patients in India. With this growing trend, e-pharmacies are also increasing at a significant rate. However, in September, the AIOCD (All India Organization of Chemists and Druggists) had protested against the draft proposal of Central government with regards to formalizing …
Medical Device Innovations Fostered by New Investments
The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center is running an initiative, which would be crucial and greatly beneficial for the business owners that work towards improving the patient life and enhancing their independence. The center is a collaboration between UMass Lowell and UMass Medical School that is known for assisting biotech and medical device startups. The …
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Leadless Pacemakers: Help reduce complexities in arrhythmia patients
Pacemaker, an undoubtedly savior for patients suffering from arrhythmia, which is a disorder that causes irregularity in the heart beats. Pacemakers, therefore, help patients to cope up with irregular heartbeats. It is also seen evolving with the enhancement of technology in the healthcare sector. This electrically-charged device regulated the electric system of the body to …
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Leveraging Big Data to Improve Healthcare
The advancement of concepts like big data are not new to the world of digitization. The importance and application of data analytics to break down complex tasks has been the researcher’s prime goal. It is no surprise that big data has now rooted its presence even in the healthcare sector. With the growing complexities, healthcare …
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Innovations in Hospital Information Systems to Enhance Quality of Healthcare Delivery & Patient Experience
The healthcare system has come a long way over the decades, and is continually evolving to consistently improve the quality of healthcare delivery. Hospital information system has been an impactful technological breakthrough, enabling effective patient records maintenance and efficient patient data management – to aid healthcare professionals in delivering a higher level of experience to …
Discovering Possibilities to Treat Huntington’s Disease
Medical science has been successful in various aspects in terms of treating diseases that had no cure earlier. Similar dilemma was being experienced with the process of finding a possible treatment for neurodegenerative diseases. Even after achieving advancement in the various genetic diseases, researchers have repeatedly failed to taste success in case of Huntington’s disease. …
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Advances in Sonodynamic Therapy (SDT) Offer a Promising Non-invasive Approach in Cancer Treatment
We are all well known of the fact that cancer has become the first killer of human health, and anticancer therapy has attracted more attention of researchers from all over the world. Currently, four main methods are clinically applied in cancer treatments but every kind of treatment has its own limitations which are the major …