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MedTech Bites Issue 23 - CMDT - Consortium for Medical Device Technologies

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MedTech Bites March 2019 – edited by Jeanette Donnelly

MedTech Bites brings you snippets of the NZ medtech sector balanced between what our companies are up to with the latest in NZ medtech research. This month, we feature Go Well Health and Celo, two digital health companies that are helping doctors with productivity and efficiency, and ultimately ensuring patients get better care.

Our research profile is on MedTech CoRE Associate Investigator, Dr Peng Du, from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute on his work with the gut. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Peng on receiving the 2018 Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize. Peng is one of New Zealand’s research-entrepreneurs juggling research, mentoring students and running his start-up: Fleximap.

There has been quite a few articles on AI and its role in healthcare this last month. The possibility for AI to transform healthcare still captures the imagination but where is it in reality? IBM’s Watson recently hit the wall for not fulfilling its promise to match cancer patients with the most effective treatments. On the other end of the scale, we also now are seeing AI platforms such as IDx-DR, which analyses eye images of the retina to detect mild diabetic retinopathy without a clinician’s input. This is the first FDA approved AI product that has been proven with a clinical trial. AI will be contributing more and more to healthcare but the technology should not be over-sold. The AI platforms backed by strong science and clinical understanding will have positive impact in healthcare.
https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/artificial-intelligence-medicine-overhyped/

On a different note, Women in Health Tech (WIHT) launches on April 10th in Auckland. This is a collaborative initiative from members of the Medical Technology Association of New Zealand (MTANZ), New Zealand Health IT (NZHIT) and the CMDT/MedTech CoRE. The mission of Women in Health Tech is to empower women and diversity to flourish at all levels of the HealthTech industry by making cultural change within organisational opportunities and leadership. Check this link out to see what the launch will unfold – https://www.cmdt.org.nz/event/new-zealand-women-in-healthtech-launch-breaking-through-bias

And for some lighthearted distraction, here is a list of AI movies about everything and everything – nothing really to do with medical technologies. The oldest is Metropolis from 1927. https://www.zdnet.com/pictures/15-of-the-best-movies-about-ai-ranked/

Dr Diana Siew
CMDT Co-Chair and Associate Director of MedTech CoRE

IN THE NZ MEDTECH WORLD…

Dr Peng Du
The final frontier of electrophysiology 

2018’s Prime Minters MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist winner Dr Peng Du speaks about what got him interested and what is to come next in his research.
Read more here

Celo's team
Encrypted messaging for health professionals 

What would you prefer a health professional to use when communicating about your health? A fax? Paging? WhatsApp? Texting? Snapchat? See what Celo has created.
Read more here

Allan and Susan Binks

A better way to care for patients

Go Well Health is a digital platform that connects health providers, clinicians, clients and carers for an optimized approach to personalized care before, during and after a health event.
Read more here

EVENTS

MedTech Conversations    

April 19th
70 Symonds St, Auckland, NZ
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Emerging Tech In Health 2019

21-22 May
Christchurch, NZ
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International Neuromodulation Society Conference

25-30 May
Sydney, AUS
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HealthTech Week 2019

1-5 July
Auckland, NZ
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41st Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference
23-27 July
Berlin, Germany
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I-CREATE 2019 Conference  
26-29 August
Canberra, AUS
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Biomedical Engineering Society 
16-19 October
Philadelphia, USA
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