Artificial intelligence stethoscope and mobile app linkage to provide customized health services for residents

[Chungcheong News reporter Park Young-hwan] Dae-deok-gu announced on the 23rd that it signed a business agreement with Smartsound Co., Ltd. to support the artificial intelligence (AI) smart stethoscope ‘Skipper’.
Through this agreement, the two organizations will cooperate in areas such as △support for health care for high-risk groups and patients with chronic diseases, △establishment of artificial intelligence and mobile health management service platforms, and △support for measuring devices and services for patient management.
The artificial intelligence (AI) smart stethoscope ‘Skipper’ is a smart device that can determine whether there are major symptoms of cardiopulmonary disease by analyzing the heart and lung auscultoscope in real time, and it can check the health status of the subject in real time by linking with the mobile app (APP).
Business agreement with Smart Sound Co., Ltd.Artificial
intelligence stethoscope and mobile app linkage
to provide customized health services for residentsThrough this agreement, Park Young-hwan will
link the smart stethoscope with the mobile app to provide customized health services for each resident who uses the Northern Residents’ Health Center.
As a result, residents will be able to receive services such as △heart and lung auscultation services for patients with chronic diseases, △professional counseling based on the results of data analysis, △abnormal symptom monitoring, and △early detection of complications through Skipper.
Daedeok-gu Mayor Choi Chung-kyu said, “Through this agreement, we are able to provide systematic health care services using smart technology to local residents” and “Daedeok-gu will continue to introduce cutting-edge technology to help all residents enjoy a healthy life.”
On the other hand, in Daedeok-gu, the ‘Smart Healthcare Zone’ and ‘Smart Health Measurement Room’ in the Northern Resident Health Center are operated at all times so that any local resident can measure and manage their health status on their own.
In addition, on the first Friday of every month, ‘Smart Health Day’ is operated to provide health care services for high-risk groups and patients with chronic diseases.

[Source] : Chungcheong News http://www.ccnnews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=344984

Smartsound and SK Telecom announced on the 4th that they have signed a business cooperation agreement to provide artificial intelligence(AI) stethoscope for animals, WITHaPET, and AI auscultation and diagnosis services. It is expected to provide more accurate disease diagnosis services by adding not only video diagnosis but also AI auscultation and diagnosis to SK Telecom’s existing pet AI video diagnosis service, X Caliber.

Smartsound’s WITHaPET is an AI stethoscope for pets that uses artificial intelligence to diagnose heart disease early. SK Telecom’s X Caliber provides musculoskeletal, thoracic, and abdominal diagnosis using artificial intelligence based on pet X-ray images. By integrating the strengths of the two companies’ products, it is now possible to assist veterinarians with diagnosis, from auscultating a dog’s heart to reading x-ray images. It is expected to be actively used in veterinary clinics at home and abroad, as the incidence of heart disease is higher in older and smaller dog breeds.

“Through this cooperation agreement, we hope that veterinary clinics will be able to detect and treat heart disease in dogs through auscultation and X-ray images at an early stage, slow down the progression, and protect the lives of precious pets,” said Lee Jung-ho, CEO of Smartsound.

The new auscultation and imaging diagnosis AI service will be launched this year after integration. SK Telecom X Caliber’s distribution partner Covet will be in charge of domestic sales to its members, while the AI Auscultation standalone product will be sold at Smartsound’s distribution partner, Green Cross Veterinary Products. The two companies are also promoting business cooperation for the global expansion of AI integrated services.

Meanwhile, Smartsound is also accelerating its overseas expansion. Recently, business cooperation with veterinary clinics and veterinary telemedicine companies in the Japanese pet market has been decided and services are being prepared, and Japanese insurance companies are considering introducing it as a solution to streamline the animal insurance enrollment process.

Smartsound’s Skeeper, which is used on the human body, has been awarded the Minister of Science and ICT Award and the Minister of Health and Welfare Award as the first AI cardiopulmonary diagnosis solution in Korea. Currently, it is advancing its AI analysis technology through clinical trials with 10 general hospitals in Korea, including Seoul National University Hospital in Bundang and Korea University Hospital in Anam. Skeeper will be applied to the integrated care pilot project in Anyang City to support digital healthcare health services, and will be delivered to 189 diplomatic missions of 185 countries of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be utilized for telemedicine services.

[Source] : Seoul Economy (https://www.sedaily.com/NewsView/29VTV9FULD)

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[Keyword] : SK Telecom, Excalibur, Image diagnosis, AI diagnosis, Artificial intelligence, Pet stethoscope, Witherpet, Heart disease, Animal hospital