Japan

Australia-based healthcare analytics startup Prospection has announced the opening of its Japan headquarters, and appointment of health informatics and pharmaceutical veteran Kaoru Sato to lead the company’s first global office.

The product consists of three components - a patient app, a doctor app, and a portable CO Checker.

Called Linkx score, the health engagement app will connect health activities and be able to implement the collected data with health risk prediction and illness prevention using dacadoo’s Health Score tech.

M3 is Japan’s largest medical informational platform company of which Sony owns 33.9% of the shares.

The startup also released an add-on COVID-19 triage system on its Ubie for Hospital platform in May 2020.

According to a paper titled Pain Management in the Elderly Population: A Review published in The Ochsner Journal in 2010, pain may be underreported because some elderly patients incorrectly believe that pain is a normal process of aging.

Medirom, a healthtech company based in Japan, has announced that at CES 2020 it will be working with MATRIX Industries, a Silicon Valley material science company, to deliver the world’s first health monitoring smartband named MOTHER that never requires charging.

A interview with Prof Yasushi Goto, Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan. 

Integrating Fitbit into the platform provides Health2Sync users with a more holistic view of their health, which can support them in making healthy lifestyle choices to better manage their condition.

The company has collected more than 10.5 billion nights of sleep data over the years, which helped them to provide insights on Singaporean users.