18-Nov-14 Singapore’s Tan Tock Seng Hospital has become the first in Southeast Asia to fit patients with customised total knee replacement implants, which are moulded based on the unique size and shape of each patient's knee. [image: Mediacorp News Group]

18-Nov-14 Singapore-based RingMD has launched its first app, designed to connect patients anywhere in the world to doctors anywhere in the world. The platform currently has about 100 doctors, mostly in Singapore, who currently mainly see patients from Southeast Asia. Besides the international focus, what sets RingMD apart is a marketplace approach to virtual care. [image: MobiHealthNews]

12-Nov-14 Singapore is now the birthplace of a number of promising digital health startups with its strong fundamentals. With the rise in the number of digital health startups, there has been growing interest from investors too. Venture capitalist healthcare funding has increased more than five-fold since 2011. [image: e27]

31-Oct-14 It will soon be easier and safer to wheel hospital beds around Singapore’s Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, with the roll-out of ‘robot’ beds which can be pushed by just one worker instead of the usual two. [image: The Straits Times]

23-Oct-14 The University of Bristol in the UK and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have signed a partnership agreement to explore technologies that advance ageless ageing and other healthcare innovations, including a smart sensor wristband that monitors activity in the home. [image: Heythorp Healthcare]