Bayer launches telehealth platform for endometriosis in Malaysia
Pharmaceutical company Bayer has partnered with virtual well being corporate DoctorOnCall and the Endometriosis Affiliation of Malaysia (MyEndosis) to release a telehealth platform devoted to endometriosis.
Endometriosis, a situation that has effects on one in 10 ladies international, happens when the endometrium grows outdoor the womb in different tissues or organs.
The brand new telehealth carrier will supply on-line consultations with obstetrician-gynaecologists from DoctorOnCall. For a three-month duration from June, unfastened teleconsultations will probably be introduced to sufferers.
“For the reason that extra ladies in Asia relatively are suffering from this situation, we see nice importance in running with Bayer to release this first-ever devoted endometriosis platform in Malaysia,” mentioned DoctorOnCall COO Chiak Tang.
MyEndosis President and founder Surita Mogan famous that “telehealth platforms are tough equipment and avenues to coach ladies on endometriosis, empowering them to voice out their ache and search remedy early via making knowledgeable choices about their situation”.
“With the rising use of virtual well being platforms particularly because the COVID-19 pandemic started and as extra other folks transform digitally savvy, we see the significance of tapping into telehealth as a useful resource to learn medical doctors and sufferers to reinforce clinical control of endometriosis,” Yamini Prakash, nation department head of Bayer Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, additionally commented.
NHA upgrades well being ID app
India’s Nationwide Well being Authority has introduced an upgraded model of its well being ID app.
Previously the Nationwide Virtual Well being Undertaking’s Well being Data, the remodeled Ayushman Bharat Well being Account (ABHA) cell app at the Google Play Retailer has a brand new person interface and an added capability permitting customers to simply get entry to their well being information thru their smartphones.
In the course of the app, users principally create their well being ID deal with which can also be related with their 14-digit ABHA quantity.
The up to date model now additionally permits them to add their very own paper well being information, in addition to proportion those well being information, comparable to diagnostic studies, prescriptions, and vaccination certificate, to the ABDM’s community of healthcare suppliers.
Different new functionalities of the app come with the way to edit profile; hyperlink and unlink ABHA numbers from the well being ID deal with; and login by means of face and different biometric authentication.
A QR code scan serve as to temporarily sign in at any ABDM-compliant well being amenities will later come to the app.
Telehealth platform DoctorOnCall provides PERDIM medical doctors to its community
Malaysian virtual well being platform DoctorOnCall has signed a memorandum of figuring out with Pertubuhan Doktor–Doktor Islam Malaysia or PERDIM, an organisation of Muslim normal practitioners in Malaysia.
The settlement provides PERDIM medical doctors to the community of healthcare suppliers on DoctorOnCall. They’re going to have the ability to tap the platform’s large client base via checklist their services and products, comparable to teleconsultation and residential tracking.
Right now, DoctorOnCall has over 1000 clinical practitioners who’re serving round 700,000 sufferers.
DoctorOnCall consolidates healthcare services introduced via its spouse healthcare suppliers and pros right into a unmarried platform. In line with 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 undertaking to make healthcare extra out there.
PERDIM President Dr Boi Saidi bin Abdul Razak added that their partnership “will lend a hand clinical practitioners liberate new probabilities in offering healthcare”.
IntelliCentrics, Taiwan Existence spouse to supply telehealth carrier for global travellers
Hong Kong-listed well being tech company IntelliCentrics has signed a memorandum of figuring out with insurance coverage corporate Taiwan Existence Insurance coverage Co. to supply on-line well being services and products to Taiwanese other folks going in another country.
IntelliCentrics declare that global travellers shape a “huge, underserved marketplace” the place folks additionally want get entry to to healthcare whilst out of the country.
Its partnership with Taiwan Existence will be offering Taiwanese travellers well being consultations by means of the IntelliCentrics on-line platform.
In line with a press remark, thello will faucet native companions, together with telehealth supplier EU Care, to give a boost to their new well being carrier.
The telehealth carrier will probably be introduced after the companions discover extra mutual advantages and obtain essential govt approvals.
DOC2US powers Watsons Malaysia’s new telehealth carrier
Malaysian telemedicine supplier DOC2US has entered right into a strategic partnership with beauty and health store Watsons Malaysia to attach its community of medical doctors with the latter’s client base.
The partnership will supply Watsons’ shoppers with get entry to to on-line well being consultations with medical doctors from DOC2US by means of the Watsons Malaysia cell app.
It additionally permits them to get e-prescriptions, that are distributed from make a selection 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 distance between medical doctors and the pharmaceutical neighborhood.
“For almost all of sufferers, their first level of care is typically the drugstore,” he mentioned. Pharmacies, he persisted, also are the place virtual well being can give a boost to each pharmacists and clinical practitioners to serve extra sufferers past boundaries.
