Population Health

The company will use the funds to accelerate development of its screening device.  

Billed as more than 10 times the scale of previous endeavors, the Truveta Genome Project aims to ensure representation across ancestries, ethnicities, genders and other social drivers of health – and broaden the reach of precision medicine.

The hospital east of South Korea's capital Seoul largely serves international patients who require global quality care. CEO Tack Lee discusses.  

Mayo Clinic takes its artificial intelligence-powered documentation platform enterprise-wide, Google Cloud collaborates on drug repurposing AI and a government-funded infectious disease risk model aims to improve public health resilience.

Targeted by cybersecurity threat actors, providers must take extra precautions to safeguard maternal health data and ensure that they have the right levels of security, says Deepak Prakash, CTO and cofounder of Sonio.

South Korea's National Institute of Health has established a big health database that researchers can tap into to develop new technologies, says director Dr Hyun-Young Park.

Healthcare providers and IT vendors in the region have weighed in with their predictions for healthcare technology in the new year.

A statistical analysis evaluated a refit of the Dementia AlgoRithm, which helps determine patients at risk for cognitive decline, using administrative claims data. It found the new models could be a game-changer for value-based care providers.

Besides saving significant time and cost, Taichung Veterans General Hospital also has the shortest emergency patient stay in Taiwan, shares computer and communications center director Lai-Shiun Lai.

The health system's proprietary model offers a clinically validated approach to identifying behavioral health patterns and risk stratification to help guide more targeted decision making and improve care, the company says.