Bayer launches telehealth platform for endometriosis in Malaysia
Pharmaceutical agency Bayer has partnered with digital well being firm DoctorOnCall and the Endometriosis Affiliation of Malaysia (MyEndosis) to launch a telehealth platform devoted to endometriosis.
Endometriosis, a situation that impacts one in 10 girls worldwide, happens when the endometrium grows exterior the womb in different tissues or organs.
The brand new telehealth service will present on-line consultations with obstetrician-gynaecologists from DoctorOnCall. For a three-month interval from June, free teleconsultations will likely be provided to sufferers.
“On condition that extra girls in Asia comparatively are affected by this situation, we see nice significance in working with Bayer to launch this first-ever devoted endometriosis platform in Malaysia,” mentioned DoctorOnCall COO Chiak Tang.
MyEndosis President and founder Surita Mogan famous that “telehealth platforms are highly effective instruments and avenues to coach girls on endometriosis, empowering them to voice out their ache and search remedy early by making knowledgeable choices about their situation”.
“With the rising use of digital well being platforms particularly because the COVID-19 pandemic started and as extra folks grow to be digitally savvy, we see the significance of tapping into telehealth as a useful resource to profit docs and sufferers to enhance medical administration of endometriosis,” Yamini Prakash, nation division head of Bayer Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, additionally commented.
NHA upgrades well being ID app
India’s Nationwide Well being Authority has launched an upgraded model of its well being ID app.
Previously the Nationwide Digital Well being Mission’s Well being Data, the revamped Ayushman Bharat Well being Account (ABHA) cellular app on the Google Play Retailer has a brand new consumer interface and an added performance permitting customers to simply entry their well being data by means of their smartphones.
Via the app, users primarily create their well being ID deal with which might be linked with their 14-digit ABHA quantity.
The up to date model now additionally permits them to add their very own paper well being data, in addition to share these well being data, corresponding to diagnostic experiences, prescriptions, and vaccination certificates, to the ABDM’s community of healthcare suppliers.
Different new functionalities of the app embody the choice to edit profile; hyperlink and unlink ABHA numbers from the well being ID deal with; and login through face and different biometric authentication.
A QR code scan perform to rapidly register at any ABDM-compliant well being amenities will later come to the app.
Telehealth platform DoctorOnCall provides PERDIM docs to its community
Malaysian digital well being platform DoctorOnCall has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pertubuhan Doktor–Doktor Islam Malaysia or PERDIM, an organisation of Muslim common practitioners in Malaysia.
The settlement provides PERDIM docs to the community of healthcare suppliers on DoctorOnCall. They are going to have the ability to tap the platform’s extensive shopper base by itemizing their companies, corresponding to teleconsultation and residential monitoring.
Presently, DoctorOnCall has over a thousand medical practitioners who’re serving round 700,000 sufferers.
DoctorOnCall consolidates healthcare services provided by its accomplice healthcare suppliers and professionals right into a single platform. In response to Hazwan Najib, its director and co-founder, the corporate is dedicated to cultivating a community of healthcare suppliers throughout Malaysia as a part of its mission to make healthcare extra accessible.
PERDIM President Dr Boi Saidi bin Abdul Razak added that their partnership “will assist medical practitioners unlock new prospects in offering healthcare”.
IntelliCentrics, Taiwan Life accomplice to offer telehealth service for worldwide travellers
Hong Kong-listed well being tech agency IntelliCentrics has signed a memorandum of understanding with insurance coverage firm Taiwan Life Insurance coverage Co. to offer on-line well being companies to Taiwanese folks going overseas.
IntelliCentrics declare that worldwide travellers type a “huge, underserved market” the place people additionally want entry to healthcare whereas abroad.
Its partnership with Taiwan Life will supply Taiwanese travellers well being consultations through the IntelliCentrics on-line platform.
In response to a press assertion, they will faucet native companions, together with telehealth supplier EU Care, to assist their new well being service.
The telehealth service will likely be launched after the companions discover extra mutual advantages and purchase essential authorities approvals.
DOC2US powers Watsons Malaysia’s new telehealth service
Malaysian telemedicine supplier DOC2US has entered right into a strategic partnership with well being and sweetness retailer Watsons Malaysia to attach its community of docs with the latter’s shopper base.
The partnership will present Watsons’ prospects with entry to on-line well being consultations with docs from DOC2US through the Watsons Malaysia cellular app.
It additionally permits them to get e-prescriptions, that are disbursed from choose Watsons’ shops, mentioned Caryn Loh, Watsons Malaysia’s managing director.
For DOC2US CEO and co-founder Dr Raymond Choy, their tie-up with Watsons is a step to bridge the hole between docs and the pharmaceutical neighborhood.
“For almost all of sufferers, their first level of care is often the pharmacy,” he mentioned. Pharmacies, he continued, are additionally the place digital well being can assist each pharmacists and medical practitioners to serve extra sufferers past obstacles.
