What if doctors could practise your surgery on a virtual you first? Welcome to the future of Indian healthcareIndian doctors are now utilising digital twins, virtual replicas of patients created from medical data, to enhance surgical planning and tr...
30 Jun, 2025, 11.54 AM IST
'R&D innovation helping India play key role in shaping global trends'In an interview to ET, he said the French company, which clocks annual revenue of about $8 billion, is looking at technologies like virtual...
22 Oct, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
How Chennai firm Medisim VR is training India’s future doctors through virtual realityA company in Chennai has developed and deployed a virtual reality system that can help medical students get hands-on experience with variou...
22 May, 2023, 04.40 PM IST
View: Bengaluru reads your X-Ray. Chennai may train your doctorSince the pandemic, the Indian government has become painfully aware that the country’s health-care resources need an upgrade, both quantit...
03 Apr, 2023, 11.01 AM IST
Flights and firefighting: companies push into the metaverseThe metaverse exploded in popularity after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in late 2021 pronounced it the next big thing for the internet,...
01 Mar, 2023, 06.25 PM IST
MediSim VR partners with Harvard simulation lab director to drive VR-based medical training globallyMediSim VR combines the benefits of Virtual Reality (VR) and simulation to deliver immersive learning for skill training. Their built-in AI...
24 Feb, 2023, 09.28 PM IST
Much is being made of ‘metaverse’. Here’s sifting through the hype to understand the tech inflectionThe wide swathe of metaverse solutions encompasses hardware like displays, sensors, smartglasses and headsets, programming and asset creati...
05 Aug, 2022, 11.36 PM IST
Largest batch of AIIMS resident surgeons to learn basics of robotic surgeryIn the largest such initiative so far, a group of 70 young surgeons specialising in oncology at the premier medical science institute in Ne...
20 Feb, 2021, 11.01 AM IST
Changing Landscape Of Medical Technology Training & Education In Post Covid-19 Era23 Jan, 2021, 09.30 AM IST
IBM India was the second highest contributor to IBM's US patents in 2020IBM said its employee inventors worldwide have received 9,130 patents last year and the company led the industry across four key technology...
12 Jan, 2021, 06.22 PM IST
Digital twin tech will take personalised medicine to the next level: Gerd Hoefner, Siemens Healthcare"Digital twins enable us to virtualize individual organs of a patient. We want to leverage the potential of AI for virtual planning to visu...
09 Nov, 2020, 02.05 PM IST
Open ortho surgery simulator based on AI launched in IndiaDoctors said the technology is best suited for Indian conditions where the doctor patient ratio is one of the lowest across the world and w...
16 Dec, 2018, 02.36 PM IST
Jio, Ericsson unveil India specific 5G user casesThe use cases leveraged the gigabit speed and ultra-low latency capabilities of the nextgen technology to highlight key benefits such as th...
26 Oct, 2018, 03.22 PM IST
IIT-M startup bags $1 million order from Singapore firmThe startup Merkel Haptics was formed in 2011 to convert lab work into products, and Touch Lab at the Applied Mechanics Department of IIT M...
09 Aug, 2017, 09.40 AM IST
Smile Train's surgery simulator chosen for Qatar global summitA cleft lip and palate surgical training tool has been chosen to be showcased before world's leading healthcare experts during a forthcomin...
21 Jan, 2015, 10.40 PM IST
Simulation software marks its might in safety, testingAugmented reality, the blending of virtual and real worlds and simulation are mainly linked with gaming, animation movies, entertainment an...
17 May, 2012, 10.24 AM IST
- Learning science the virtual way
Imagine medical students playing around with a virtual heart while learning surgery.
13 Oct, 2007, 03.03 AM IST