At a recent roundtable event “Digital Toolkits for Medical Projects”, the Russian Ministry for Economic Development announced that it was considering legislative measures to facilitate the testing of new technologies in healthcare. “This experimental regime for telemedicine and prescriptions will increase the availability of consultations for patients and increase the speed of medical care without the need …
No less than two million preliminary diagnoses using a neural network were made to date in Moscow during medical home visits, city authorities announced last week. “Today, the latest digital tools are used in routine medical practice in all adult polyclinics relies – including a clinical decision support system (CDSS) allowing for AI-powered preliminary diagnoses,” according Moscow’s Department of Information Technologies (DIT). After the practitioner enters the patient’s …
Based in Montpellier, France, Scaleo Medical is a developer and producer of medical equipment for hospital and home use. With a focus on oxygen therapy, respiratory orthopaedics and patient transfer tools, the company is now developing a brand-new concept around e-health devices. Cédric Etlicher, GM of Scaleo Medical in Russia, shared with FrenchTech his experience of doing business …
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The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in various business processes is on the rise. This is evidenced, for example, by the steadily increasing media coverage, which indicates an increasing relevance of the technology. A growing number of application practices confirm the fact: the ICT.Moscow database, in 2021 alone, collected more than a …
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On June 21-24, resident companies from Skolkovo, Russia’s top international tech hub, took part in a business mission to Arab Health 2021. The companies Geotar, VRSim, MEDVR, and The Psycho Hyperreality drew attention as they demonstrated their virtual reality solutions. Virtual reality technologies are part of an up-and-coming market that is spreading across multiple sectors, including construction, gaming, medicine, engineering, etc. Given …
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The Russian Ministry of Digital Development considers providing AI developers with access to anonymized medical data of Russian citizens. As reported by business daily Kommersant, patients’ data could be used by companies working on AI-based solutions for disease diagnosis or prediction, as well as for epidemiological purposes. AI developers would be connected to a special …
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StartupBlink has just ranked cities of the world by the number and quality of anti-covid innovative solutions. In the list, which includes 80 cities from 31 countries, Moscow ranks third — behind San Francisco and New York City, but ahead of such major cities as Toronto, Tel Aviv, London, Taipei and Paris. Among Moscow’s innovative …
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Last week, a sizable deal in the field of neurosciences was announced in Russia. Maxim Basov, an executive from the agro industry, has invested in Wikium, an award-winning startup offering brain productivity exercises for office staff and students. Basov took control of the company, acquiring a 66% stake, Rusbase reported. The amount of the deal was not disclosed, but Rusbase noted …
Launched almost a year ago, a Moscow city experiment to use artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies in the local healthcare system has involved more than 20 solution providers offering 38 services. The city authorities intend to involve even more providers, medical organisations and doctors, and develop new AI use cases. The city also aims …
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As announced previously, the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation has launched an application called ‘Gosuslugi. Covid Tracker’ to track contacts with coronavirus patients all around Russia. Users diagnosed with COVID-19 must independently report this anonymously through the application. In turn, users with whom this person came in close contact in the last …
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Russia’s Digital Development Ministry is finishing work on a new mobile app designed to combat the spread of COVID-19. Its working name is ‘Stopcoronavirus. My contacts.’ The contact-tracing app, which relies on technologies developed by Apple and Google, is designed to track nearby mobile devices and warn the user if they have been within 10 …
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The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund) is investing in a telemedicine platform developed by Digital Medical Services (a subsidiary of state corporations Rostelecom and Rostec) and online consultation provider Doctis. While Digital Medical Services will provide expert and methodological support to meet public healthcare standards, Doctis will contribute its information system to the joint …
