LAS VEGAS, Nev. – By Kim Yoon-mi/Korea Biomedical Review correspondent - The greatest barrier to accessing digital therapeutics (DTx) is physicians who practice medicine governed by their traditional workflow, DTx industry officials said.To help patients get more access to DTx, doctors need more edu
LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- Consumer Electronics Show 2022, the world's largest IT and electronic product exhibition, was an event to confirm the growing digital healthcare market.The same was true for Korea, which sent the second-largest number of participating companies after the U.S.However, underneath th
LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- Aside from U.S. companies, Korean businesses were most visible during the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2022, the world's largest IT and electronics exhibition held offline after two years.About 500 Korean companies participated in this year's CES, held from Jan. 5-7 in Las Vega
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – By Kim Yoon-mi / Korea Biomedical Review correspondent - The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 showcased state-of-the-art digital health technologies developed rapidly due to the Covid-19 pandemic.At the CES 2022 held in Las Vegas Convention Center from Wednesday to Friday, digi
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – “The future of medical care is extending beyond hospital.”Robert Ford, chairman and CEO of Abbott, said so in his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 in Las Vegas, Nev., on Thursday (WST).Ford, the first healthcare industry leader to present a keynote at the
LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- By Kim Yoon-mi, Korea Biomedical Review Correspondent - Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of vaccinations shot up. Covid-19 vaccination requires at least three doses, let alone other vaccines, including flu shots. The increase of vaccinations weighs on medical institutions,
The stock trading suspension of Osstem Implant, the world's largest seller of dental implants in sales volume, continued for the third day after a staff allegedly embezzled corporate funds almost equal to its equity capital.The incident attracted the public's keen attention, marking the single large
Himedi, a company that has developed a platform to attract foreign patients, said that foreign subscribers had exceeded 10,000.The company introduced medical concierge services, including interpretation, accommodation, and transportation, for patients from the Middle East in 2011. In August 2020, it
LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- By Kim Yoon-mi, Korea Biomedical Review Correspondent - The Consumer Electronics Show 2022, the world’s most influential tech trade show, will be an opportunity to see how much digital healthcare has advanced in the past two years since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, organ
SD Biosensor said it had signed a contract with a Canadian company to supply 138.7 billion won ($116.2 million) worth of "STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Nasal with Control," its Covid-19 antigen rapid diagnosis kit.The contract accounts for about 8.23 percent of the company's sales of about 1.68 trillion wo
Johnson & Johnson Medical Korea said that it has named Oh Jin-yong as its new general manager effective on Jan. 1. Oh will double as J& Medical's North Asian head by managing its branches in Taiwan and Hong Kong, it said.New GM Oh, who joined Johnson & Johnson in 2014, has held various positions in
Maria Trading Co., a leading aesthetics device and product supplier based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said that it has won a lawsuit against Daeju Meditech Engineering concerning the latter’s supply of unauthorized medical devices.A local court has ordered Daeju to return the contract fee of
Seegene said Wednesday that it would export 1.7 million Covid-19 diagnostic reagents to Israel on a chartered flight.This is the second time in December that the company has exported its Covid-19 diagnostic reagent, following 2.8 million doses to Europe on a chartered flight on Dec. 19.Seegene said
A Korean research team said they developed a 3-D imaging technology to overcome the shortcomings of a robotic prosthesis implanted in the peripheral nerve and deal with the deterioration of its functions.An intra-neural interface-based robotic prosthetic hand moves as the patient thinks and transmit
EOFlow, a biotech specializing in drug delivery platforms, said its U.S. branch EOFlow Inc. and Zihipp, a spin-out firm of Imperial College London, have agreed to establish a joint venture in the U.S. for weight loss.The new joint venture named SanPlena will focus on developing wearable injectable d
Korean manufacturers of Covid-19 testing devices are actively exporting their products to the U.S.Industry officials said the U.S. demands for Korean test kits would increase for a while due to the continued spread of the Omicron variant.Humasis said on Monday in a regulatory filing that it signed a
Lunit said Monday that its latest AI solution has obtained the Medical Device Single Audit Program (MDSAP) certificate, issued by five major countries after conducting one regulatory audit of a medical device.The company will be partially or fully exempted from a duplicate regulatory procedure from
MDoc said it launched an integrated home are platform, “mDoc Homecare,” and would have a pilot run for peritoneal dialysis patients in January next year.is a healthcare startup founded in July by CEO Kim Kyeong-i, a Ph.D. student at the Department of Medical Device Industry of Yonsei University Coll
A survey showed that most medical professionals, including doctors and nurses, predicted that the electronic medical record (EMR) system would rapidly shift from hospitals’ in-house servers to a cloud-based server system.On Wednesday, ezCaretech, a digital healthcare company, unveiled its survey res
AT Sens said that it has signed a contract with Japan Lifeline, a Japanese cardiovascular medical device distribution company, to export AT-Patch, a continuous, long-term use electrocardiogram (ECG) device.Under the accord, AT Sens will export about 27.8 billion won ($23.7 million) worth of AT-Patch