31-Mar-17 Without much press or international recognition, Chinese companies have been making good progress enhancing their pharmaceutical and healthcare prowess. For example, in the past few years, 50+ Chinese pharmaceutical companies have entered or completed phase I and phase II clinical trials, while 10+ companies have completed phase III trials. [image: China Money Network

12-Jan-17 Samsung Electronics will develop 'wearable healthcare devices' as its new business for the future instead of the robots that LG and other rivals are paying attention to. "The roles of home robots recently introduced by home appliance companies can be realized by adding artificial intelligence to existing devices such as smartphones, TVs and IoT refrigerators,” said a representative. [image: Business Korea]

10-Jan-17 Over 80 per cent of Australians are comfortable with AI being used to diagnose common medical problems and interpret test results. However, people also acknowledge some of the limitations of AI technology and identified privacy concerns over patient records and medical confidentiality and the lack of human intuition as issues. [image: i-stock / Which-50]

21-Dec-16 The Research Society for The Study of Diabetic in India has partnered with Wellthy Therapeutics, a digital therapeutics company focused on improving outcomes through Artificial Intelligence. Wellthy Diabetes is a diabetes health coach for patients and a virtual clinical assistant for doctors. Wellthy will offer the prescription app for all doctors who are members of RSSDI to prescribe. [image: The Hindu Business Line]

11-Oct-16 Baidu - China's biggest search engine - has introduced an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot to connect with patients and suggest diagnoses to doctors. The bot is designed to be the first port of call for a person feeling sick. A patient poses a health query to 'Melody', which responds with further questions, and compares responses with Baidu's database. [image: VCG / Getty Images]