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The Centre For Healthcare Innovation (CHI) has launched a fresh initiative designed to strengthen capabilities in health and social care. This comes in tandem with the National Healthcare Innovation and Productivity Awards, which recognised seven remarkable projects that made significant strides in addressing care and workforce challenges.

Singapore’s healthtech agency, Integrated Health Information Systems (IHIS), marked its 15th anniversary by unveiling a new name – Synapxe. This rebranding mirrors the agency’s growth in sculpting the future of healthtech in the region. Synapxe has committed to further harness the transformative force of innovative technologies like generative AI and cloud to enhance Healthier SG, the Ministry of Health’s key health initiative.

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In the swiftly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI), Google’s Med-PaLM is making a significant entrance. Developed as an AI-powered medical chatbot, Med-PaLM is giving stiff competition to tech behemoths like Microsoft, the backer of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Unlike ChatGPT, which has been widely released, Google’s Med-PaLM is still under wraps and hasn’t yet been made available to the general public.

In a groundbreaking medical trial, a 40-year-old Dutch man named Gert-Jan Oskam, who had been paralyzed following a cycling accident in China, has regained the ability to walk using electronic brain implants. This remarkable achievement, which was the product of collaboration between Swiss researchers and France’s Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), represents a significant advancement in neuroscience and biomedical engineering.

Protecting public health and promoting ethical practices, WHO calls for the responsible utilisation of artificial intelligence in healthcare. 

Scientists from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder have crafted an innovative breathalyser test powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that can detect COVID-19 swiftly and accurately.