07-Jun-17 In 2016 Google announced it had trained image recognition algorithms to detect diabetes-related eye disease roughly as well as human experts. Work has now begun on integrating the technology into a chain of eye hospitals in India. [image: Cole Wilson / Wired]

05-Jun-17 Mexico City is advancing its strategy of digitising health services with a new program that carries out home check-ups to detect illness, follows up on pregnant women, and reviews the vaccination of children. [image: Global Health Intelligence]

02-Jun-17 Medical technology startups in Singapore are raising increasing amounts of capital from foreign investors, and linking with foreign organizations to bring products to market. But high development costs and no breakthrough local success could hold the sector back. [image: Endomaster]

31-May-17 The CEOs of DocDoc HomeGP.asia agree there are three factors driving the boom in health startups in Southeast Asia: 1. Real needs being addressed; 2. Consumers want them; 3. Right product at the right time. [image: Vulcan Post]

02-Jun-17 Singapore’s Stendard, an online service helping medical device manufacturers fulfill regulations documentation, has announced pre-seed funding. Stendard’s cloud-based software allows subscribers to generate the documentation they need to comply with industry standards, in only 10 hours. [image: Stendard]