Sberbank, Russia’s national savings bank, has acquired a controlling stake (79.6%) in DocDoc.ru, a startup that helps users find doctors and set up medical appointments across 14 Russian cities. The details of the deal have not been disclosed, but the bank has specified that the remaining shares belong to the founding and top management teams — which …
On April 28, 2017, Moscow will play host to the third edition of the annual M-Health Congress. The event will bring together digital healthcare experts: from doctors and scientists to entrepreneurs and developers of medical gadgets and software. This year, Russia will account for 3% of the global telemedicine market and become the sixth biggest …
Digital healthcare enthusiasts to discuss latest industry trends in Moscow (April 28) Read More
Ru-Net, an international venture fund with Russian roots, has just participated in a $55 million Series D funding round for Practo, an Indian startup that helps consumers locate doctors and healthcare information. As reported by TechCrunch, the investment was led by Tencent, the Chinese company which led Practo’s previous $90 million round last year. Also participating in the deal were RSI …
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A giant medical technology cluster could be built in Mineralnye Vody, a city in Southern Russia, with participation from Russian and foreign private investors. The project may require an investment of 162 billion rubles (about $2.5 billion at the current exchange rate). The Russian government would contribute a quarter of this amount, or 40 billion …
Russia aims to attract foreign investors to build giant medtech cluster in North Caucasus Read More
Illustrating Russia’s and China’s willingness to strengthen their ties in the field of high technologies, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia’s sovereign fund, has agreed a partnership with several Russian and Chinese industry players to develop and manufacture medical robots. According to the agreement, which was annonced Friday last week at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a …
Russian and Chinese technoparks team up to develop medical robots Read More
Policymakers, doctors and scientists from both the Netherlands and Russia gathered in Moscow last month under the auspices of the Russia-Netherlands bilateral health working group to exchange ideas and share expertise about e-health solutions. “In the Netherlands, the healthcare sector is aware of the necessity to join forces for smart solutions for sustainable healthcare. This can …
How e-health could revolutionize Russian healthcare: the Netherlands shares its experience Read More
Moscow based fund Guard Capital has invested $4 million in DocDoc.ru, a startup that helps users find doctors and setup medical appointments across 15 Russian cities. The terms of the transactions have not been disclosed, but in an exchange with Rusbase.com, Guard Capital Investment Director Vladimir Grigorashenko indicated that the last tranche of the investment had been provided in …
Russian medical appointment startup secures $4 million from local fund Read More
Place your two thumbs on the sensors of this iPhone cover and you will get an electrocardiogram (ECG) and transcription in five minutes thanks to a special algorithm. The results can then be sent to a doctor using an app for iPhone or iPad. Created by Russian startup CardioQVARK, this system was fully developed and will be …
Russian startup creates real-time cardiogram on an iPhone Read More
Even though the relations between the two powers have reached historic lows, US-Russian cooperation in scientific and technological fields is still partly alive. Thus the US-Russia Innovation Corridor (USRIC) — a cooperation framework created in 2013 by American Councils as part of the EURECA program — announced today that five medical technology startups from Russia traveled to …
A marketplace for remote medical video consultations, Medviser aims to provide patients with access to quality medical expertise worldwide. The Russian-Israeli startup is backed by Millhouse LLC, the investment company of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. Medviser’s founder and CEO Lev Orlovsky explains the human and market needs his company is addressing, shares his view on …
A new system uniting IT and medicine is taking its first steps into the Russian market. Billed as digital health, its aims are to help people save money on treatment, to accelerate medical services, and to make those services accessible to people living in the remote regions of Russia’s eleven time zones. Entrepreneurs believe this …
Digital connections provide top-tier healthcare to Russian villages Read More
Russian scientists Dmitry Fedyanin and Yury Stebunov have created a new sensor that can detect cancer cells and diagnose diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, and herpes in the comfort of your own home. “We are using a nano-mechanical circuit with a very high sensitivity,” Fedyanin told RBTH. Previously, such technologies worked only under low temperature …
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