Early eye screening for healthier ageing

Hong Kong start-up unveils world’s first chatbot for parents of special needs children.

Deploying AI with empathy

A Hong Kong start-up provides at-home diagnostics for pets.

Smart care for furry companions

Braillic is targeting 1,000 procedures using its ArNav system by the end of next year

Hong Kong medtech start-up markets AR-assisted surgery

A clip-on camera provides an audio description of what it captures

Wearable for visually impaired readies for launch

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is attracting attention across the world and there are many moves to integrate the field with western medicine.

Government, industry, academia and research support the application of traditional medicine in modern treatment.

TCM, western medicine blend

According to the 2024 Global Hepatitis Report by the World Health Organization, viral hepatitis is the second leading infectious cause of death globally – resulting in 1.3 million deaths per year and an average of 3,500 lives a day.

Healthtech pioneer launches a 10-million scans drive at the HKTDC’s Asia Summit on Global Health.

Liver campaign aims to extend lives

Hong Kong recently hosted the 26th Beijing-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Symposium, bringing together political and business leaders from Beijing and Hong Kong to further explore exchanges and cooperation between the two places.

Leaders from the two key cities look at deeper cooperation in services.

Hong Kong, Beijing seek win-win future

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) helped the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) reach a research agreement with AI Medical Service (AIM) – a Japanese medical start-up which develops artificial intelligence (AI) endoscopic diagnostic technology – to accelerate development, promote it in Hong Kong and enhance clinical application in other Asian economies.

CUHK and Japanese AI start-up tackle problem of late-diagnosis for alimentary tumours.

AI takes digestive cancers to task

A team from the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Medicine has developed patent technologies that can help pharmaceutical companies improve vaccine effectiveness of their products and efficiency of developing vaccines. The start-up has already signed cooperation agreements with a number of pharmaceutical companies to co-develop vaccines.

Studying the genetic give-and-take between humans and viruses has led to a technology that can greatly accelerate vaccine development.

Decoding viral evolution

As the shift to vegetarian diets becomes more deeply rooted in Hong Kong, local start-ups are seizing the opportunity to develop new food technologies. Hong Kong start-up Good Food Technologies has developed a plant-based pork substitute made from konjac (a root vegetable widely cultivated in Asia), coconut oil and soyabeans. The firm's first round of financing attracted HK$12 million (US$1.53 million) which will be used to build new production facilities, develop retail capabilities and grow beyond Hong Kong.

Plugging a gap in the fast-growing meat substitute market won this start-up a place in the HKTDC’s entrepreneurship development programme.

A new play on pork

Digitoe uses data-driven insights to prevent pain and promote mobility.

Smart insoles put foot health first

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