Humasis, an in vitro diagnosis kit maker, saw its sales drop sharply in the third quarter.According to industry watchers on Wednesday, the conflict between the company and its minority shareholders has also expanded to a management dispute, deepening worries about corporate competitiveness.Humasis u
Lance Little, head of Roche Diagnostics Asia Pacific, said the diagnostics industry should put priority on providing patient-centric services at an online conference on Tuesday.The company hosted the conference under the theme, “Partnering patients to revolutionize care in the Asia Pacific” involvin
Hanmi Science, which recently merged with affiliate Hanmi Healthcare, said it will strengthen its medical device business, including surgical materials.Hanmi Science, a holding company of Hanmi Group, decided to merge with its affiliates, Hanmi Healthcare, in September and completed the merger proce
Medical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that assist medical professionals’ diagnosis are expanding their domain to skin diseases.LifeSemantics is one of the companies most active in developing AI solutions to diagnose skin diseases. In the K-HOSPITAL 2022 Fair held from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, th
Closing the curtains on the first DTx Asia which was held in Seoul on Tuesday and Wednesday, Korea Biomedical Review pulled aside three experts in the DTx space to discuss the growing interest in DTx technologies and its outlook for the APAC region.Head of Welt USA Danny Kim, Click Therapeutics Dire
KT, a South Korean telecommunications giant, said it will invest $2 million (2.7 billion won) in Sonde Health, a U.S. voice biomarker development company, and start business cooperation.Under the agreement, KT plans to use Sonde Health's technology to upgrade its AI voice-based businesses such as ca
Johnson & Johnson’s Head of JLABS in Asia Pacific, Sharon Chan, moderated DTx Asia’s afternoon session on day two regarding digital therapeutic start-ups in the APAC region on Wednesday at the Novotel Ambassador Hotel in Seoul.JLABS is an incubator for start-ups in the pharmaceutical, medical device
Neurophet said it presented the research results on brain image analysis technology and brain disease prediction method using artificial intelligence (AI) during the International Congress on Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2022 (ICMRI 2022) in Seoul last week.During the conference, the company presented
A Korean government official in charge of reviewing digital health devices outlined three major criteria for the regulator’s review of digital therapeutics (DTx) products at DTx Asia in Seoul on Tuesday.In the afternoon session of DTx Asia, Han Young-min, Assistant Director of Digital Health Devices
Following the opening of the Canada-Korea Digital Health Innovation Forum 2022 on Tuesday, Korea Biomedical Review sat down with two Canadian companies specializing in healthcare digitalization and automation via software solutions.Verto CEO and founder Michael Millar specifically shared about his c
Lunit said it plans to present 11 abstracts – eight oral and three poster presentations – related to artificial intelligence (AI) medical image analysis solutions during the Radiological Society of North America 2022 (RSNA 2022).In particular, the company will disclose the results of real world data
The Canadian Embassy in Korea hosted the Canada-Korea Digital Health Innovation Forum to connect and strengthen ties between Canadian and Korean companies in the digital health industry at the Fairmont Ambassador Hotel in Seoul on Wednesday.At the event, 10 Canadian biocompanies gave a brief introdu
Syntekabio said on Thursday that it officially launched STB CLOUD, an AI new drug cloud platform service that applies its own cloud system based on its supercomputing infrastructure.STB CLOUD is an AI new drug cloud platform service that works together with the AI synthetic new drug candidate discov
AITRICS said Thursday it has won approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety for its AITRICS-VC, or Vital Care, AI software that helps diagnose by predicting the aggravation of patients’ conditions.Vital Care is an AI monitoring system that predicts the deaths of patients at intensive care un
The Korean diagnostic device manufacturers should leverage their successes in the vaccine industry to address the growing global demand for low-cost, high-quality testing kits, said the head of a global health non-profit organization.“We believe the Korean diagnostics industry is both well-positione
Philips has racked up its sixth recall related to its continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Oct. 19. The company first began a recall of around 5.5 million devices used by sleep apnea patients , including bi-level positive airway pressu
A team of researchers at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science (KAIST) has successfully developed a brain-machine interface (BMI) that decodes human brain signals to control robot arms without the need for long-term training.BMI is drawing attention as an auxiliary technology that allows patients
Lunit said it signed a collaboration agreement with the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) to test its artificial intelligence (AI)-based radiology software in the Middle East. Under the accord, Lunit and SEHA will proceed with a proof of concept (POC) of the Lunit INSIGHT CXR, an AI solution
Noul, a Korean medical diagnostics company, said on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Institut Pasteur Cameroon to strengthen malaria diagnosis and joint research in the central African country.Accordingly, the two organizations will collaborate to improve its malaria di
In August, drones came to the forefront as convenience stores in Korea started pilot testing drone delivery to remote areas. However, this is just the beginning, as the Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) is conducting demonstration projects to expand the use of drones in Korea.In