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Anyang City, building a cooperation system with smart sound… Launching ‘Smart Health Promotion Project’

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Anyang City, building a cooperation system with smart sound… Launching ‘Smart Health Promotion Project’

Anyang City, building a cooperation system with smart sound… Launching ‘Smart Health Promotion Project’

12월 23, 2022

Anyang City strives to build a digital healthcare health service to advance health operation efficiency.

Anyang City announced on the 23rd that it signed an agreement with Smart Sound on the 22nd at Anyang City Hall for the ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) Smart Stethoscope Health Promotion Project’.

As a result, Anyang City will provide 685 artificial intelligence (AI) smart stethoscopes, “Skeeper,” developed by Smart Sound to the target of integrated care for health risk groups in the region and the families of patients with chronic heart and lung disease.

Skipper is a device that can diagnose the main symptoms of heart and lung diseases with high accuracy. Smart Sound has developed an ‘AI solution’ that identifies cardiopulmonary diseases with Skipper for the first time in Korea, and has won awards from the Minister of Science and ICT and the Minister of Health and Welfare. In addition, the AI solution is currently collecting and analyzing data while clinically cooperating with Seoul National University Bundang Hospital’s EMR system and 10 domestic general hospitals, including Korea University Anam Hospital.

Choi Dae-ho, Mayor of Anyang, said, “We plan to support systematic disease management of cardiopulmonary diseases by introducing an AI-based self-management system for local health care targets and chronic patients who need continuous management.” It will be the priming water of ‘AI smart health administrative service’.”

He added, “In the face of the COVID-19 transition and the aging era, Anyang City will take the lead in establishing a ‘digital healthcare health service’ such as AIoT-based integrated care for the elderly and health management for chronic patients, and realizing a happy city where the underprivileged can enjoy together.”

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#ArtificialIntelligence , #Healthcare , #Smartsound , #SmartStethoscope
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Smartsound, Awarded the Minister of Health and Welfare Award for Merit for Commercialization of Health and Medical Technology in 2022

Smartsound, Awarded the Minister of Health and Welfare Award for Merit for Commercialization of Health and Medical Technology in 2022

12월 1, 2022

Smartsound was recognized for its contribution to the development of the domestic health and medical industry, and received a commendation from the Minister of Health and Welfare for contribution to commercialization of health care technology for health industry promotion in 2022.

‘Skeeper’ developed by SmartSound is linked to the EMR (Electronic Medical Record) system of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Korea University Anam Hospital, including ‘5G Edge Computing-based Mobile Flexible Medical SW Platform Technology Development’ Clinical cooperation is underway with about 10 world-class domestic general hospitals. Through this, it is securing and upgrading artificial intelligence (AI) diagnosis technology that can diagnose the main symptoms of heart and lung diseases, which are the 1st to 4th in the world, with high accuracy.

In addition, Skeeper is also being used for non-face-to-face remote medical treatment. In an isolation ward in a hospital dedicated to COVID-19, the doctor in charge outside the isolation ward diagnoses the results of auscultation through real-time auscultation sound monitoring, and stores auscultation sound data for each patient to check symptom changes and manage history. There are examples. Based on these cases, it can also be used as a standardized non-face-to-face solution in preparation for POST infectious disease treatment.

Smartsound developed and succeeded in developing an artificial intelligence (AI) solution for the first time in Korea to determine cardiopulmonary diseases with a smart stethoscope.

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#medical , #Smartsound
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AI stethoscope for companion animals with the pet, Successful global launch at ‘New York Vet 2022’

AI stethoscope for companion animals with the pet, Successful global launch at ‘New York Vet 2022’

11월 7, 2022

AI automatic diagnosis function for dog heart disease, unveiled for the first time at ‘New York Vet 2022’

  • Signed domestic distribution contract with Green-Cross Veterinary Medicine
  • Received the ‘Fressnapf Innovation Award 2022’, the highest authority for companion animals in Europe

Smartsound (CEO Lee, Jeong ho) officially launched ‘WITHaPET,’ an AI stethoscope for pets, in the global market at the ‘NewYork VET 2022’ held in the United States in early November. At this presentation, for the first time in the world, a function that can immediately check MMVD (Myxomatous Mitral Valve Disease), a heart disease that the majority of elderly dogs suffer from, in the early stage (B) with artificial intelligence AI-based auscultation was introduced for the first time in the world, and local academics and industry officials received great interest from

In addition, it received a high score for being able to have auscultation on the fur of a companion animal and auscultation of a newborn dog weighing less than 200g without rehairing. Smartsound plans to sign a contract with a leading local partner in the near future to determine a business model and sales price suitable for the US and global markets and start selling the product soon.

In addition, last October, it completed a domestic distribution contract with Green-Cross Veterinary Medicine, and won the Fressnapf Innovation Award 2022, the most prestigious innovation award for companion animals hosted by the ‘Fressnapf Group’, Europe’s largest pet product retailer have.

Since its establishment in 1973, Green-Cross Veterinary Medicine has been leading the animal drug market with various vaccines and treatments, and is also speeding up the development of the AI healthcare market. Germany’s Fressnapf Group has more than 1,400 dedicated stores and 8,000 employees in 12 European countries, and sales in 2021 are 4.3 trillion won.

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#NewYorkVET2022
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Smartsound ‘WITHaPET’ won the European Fressnapf Group Innovation Award

Smartsound ‘WITHaPET’ won the European Fressnapf Group Innovation Award

10월 31, 2022

Smartsound’s stethoscope for companion animals, a company specializing in smart stethoscopes, was recognized for its technology by receiving the ‘Innovation Award’ from Europe’s largest companion animal company.

According to related industries on the 31st, Smartsound announced on the 27th that its artificial intelligence (AI) stethoscope ‘WITHaPET’ for companion animals won the ‘2022 Innovation Award’ from Fressnapf Group, a European companion animal franchise company. Fressnapf Group has about 1,400 stores in 12 European countries and is the largest companion animal-related company in Europe with sales of 4.3 trillion won last year.

Smartsound’s WITHaPET is a product that applies smart stethoscope technology and is a smart stethoscope for animals that can be linked with the system of a veterinary hospital. Heart and lung sounds, heart rate and respiration rate of companion animals can be measured in real time, and auscultation data can be recorded through a dedicated app and transmitted through EMR system linkage.

In addition, the AI diagnosis service for canine cardiopulmonary disease will be provided sequentially around the world from January next year. It plans to provide a diagnosis service by providing veterinary hospitals and companion animal platform operators with a solution that can automatically analyze and diagnose heart disease, one of the causes of death in small senior dogs, with artificial intelligence (AI).

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Green Cross Veterinary Products will distribute Smartsound’s wireless stethoscope ‘WITHaPET’

Green Cross Veterinary Products will distribute Smartsound’s wireless stethoscope ‘WITHaPET’

10월 12, 2022

Green Cross Veterinary Products Co., Ltd. distributes the hot topic of wireless smart stethoscope “WITHaPET.” Smartsound’s WITHaPET was introduced at the Busan Veterinary Conference and Seoul Veterinary Clinical Conference, drawing attention from veterinarians.

Green Cross Veterinary Products Co., Ltd. (CEO Na Seung-sik) and Smartsound Corporation (CEO Lee Jung-ho) announced on the 7th that they have signed an agreement to expand the pet medical and healthcare market for “WITHaPET,” a wireless smart stethoscope for pets.

WITHaPET is an animal wireless smart stethoscope that optimizes the smart stethoscope technology verified by the hospital for 12 years by Smartsound, which was founded in 2011, to the pet and animal hospital system.

It can measure the heart, lung sound, heart rate, and respiratory rate of pets in real time, and listen and record stethoscope through a dedicated app. In addition, it is designed to transmit data to the chart through interworking with EMR.

In addition, it will provide early diagnosis assistance services for dogs’ heart disease (MMVD) through artificial intelligence (AI) from the first quarter of 2023.

Green Cross Veterinary Products said, “We plan to continue to release various products to promote the welfare of pets and explore the market in the AI healthcare field through an agreement with Smartsound.”

Source

DailyVet https://www.dailyvet.co.kr/news/industry/173463

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#ArtificialIntelligence , #BusinessCooperation , #GreenCrossVeterinaryProducts , #MOU , #Pet , #Smartsound , #SmartStethoscope , #WITHaPET
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Smartsound Corporation launches ‘WithaPET’, an AI stethoscope for pets

Smartsound Corporation launches ‘WithaPET’, an AI stethoscope for pets

Smartsound Corporation (CEO Lee Jung-ho), a company specializing in smart stethoscopes, announced that it will launch “WithaPET,” an “AI stethoscope for Pets,” in the global market through the world’s largest academic conference, “New York Vet 2022,” in New York on November 2.

WithaPET is an animal smart stethoscope that has optimized smart stethoscope technology verified at Hospital for the past 12 years to be suitable for pet stethoscope and veterinary hospital system linkage. It is designed to be able to measure the heart, lung sound, heart rate, and respiratory rate of pets in real time, and to record real-time stethoscope data through a dedicated app or to transmit it through an EMR system linkage.

Through optimization technology, a light weight of 20g has been realized, and it is designed to enable stethoscope on pet fur and stethoscope for newborn dogs under 200g. In addition, it is expected to establish itself as the primary health diagnosis and screening device for companion animals in the future through AI diagnostic services for cardiopulmonary diseases.

The dog cardiopulmonary disease AI diagnosis service will be provided sequentially around the world from January 2023. It will first provide veterinary hospitals and pet platform operators with a solution that can automatically analyze and diagnose heart diseases, which account for a high mortality rate of small old dogs, with artificial intelligence (AI).

Smart Sound is currently collecting and conducting research on heart disease data such as MMVD (Degenerative Mitral Valve Disclosure) through clinical cooperation with Seoul National University Veterinary College, and expanding research with Chungnam National University Veterinary College.

Smartsound said, “By securing a high level of diagnostic accuracy with WithaPET AI, we can save our precious dog’s life and maintain health by early diagnosis of MMVD, a heart disease that about 85% of small old dogs suffer from.”

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#ArtificialIntelligence , #NewYorkVET2022 , #Pet , #Smartsound , #SmartStethoscope , #WITHaPET
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Smartsound, participate in SW platform technology development tasks by the Ministry of Science and ICT.

Smartsound, participate in SW platform technology development tasks by the Ministry of Science and ICT.

Smartsound Corporation (CEO Lee Jung-ho) announced on the 6th that it has been selected as a participating company in the project of “Development of 5G and Edge Computing-Based Mobile Flexible Medical SW Platform Technology” by the Ministry of Science and ICT.

This project is a joint project between the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety to provide medical services to the vulnerable in medical and emergency and disaster situations.

Along with Yonsei University’s Industry-Academic Cooperation Group, Bundang Seoul National University Hospital, Ontact Health, and Be+LAB, Smartsound is in charge of developing 5G and AI-based flexible medical AI SW to support medical services suitable for field situations and participating in the first detailed task of building its own test bed.

Smartsound and smart stethoscope Skeeper want to contribute to maintaining the performance of AI SW for flexible medical care (15 types, including test support and diagnosis support) to accurately assist medical personnel by accurately hearing heart and lung sounds, which are vital signs of patients, not hospitals.

CEO Lee Jung-ho stressed, “Smart stethoscope skeepers are expected to contribute to improving the quality of life of the people by expanding health and medical services through AI diagnosis to medical vulnerable areas and classes through this project.”

Source

Medical newspaper http://www.bosa.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=2182418

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#BplusLab , #Bundang Seoul National University Hospital , #Food and DrugSafety , #Industrial and Trade Support Department , #MedicalHealthCare , #Ministry of Health and Welfare , #MIST , #MobileFlexibleMedicine , #OntactHealth , #SKEEPER , #SWPlatformTechnologyDevelopment , #Yonsei Industrial Cooperation Group
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Smart stethoscope (Skeeper) entering the Southeast Asian market :

Smart stethoscope (Skeeper) entering the Southeast Asian market :

10월 5, 2022

Smartsound Corporation was evaluated as Future Medical Solutions by Indonesian medical device manufacturers and telemedicine workers at the “Indonesia-Korea Future Industry Business Plaza 2022” hosted by the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) Jakarta at the Fairmont Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia on the 28th.

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#Artificial Intelligence , #Healthcare , #Indonesia , #KOTRA , #Southeast Asia , #Stethoscope
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Winning the Best Innovation Award in Helathcare at the International Beyond EXPO

Winning the Best Innovation Award in Helathcare at the International Beyond EXPO

Smartsound Corporation announced that it participated in the metaverse booth at the BEYOND International Science and Technology Innovation Expo, BEYOND Expo 2022 from September 21 to 27 and won the Best Innovation Award in the Healthcare category.

The event was attended by more than 35,000 innovation enthusiasts and 500 exhibitors from around the world, focusing on three items: Healthcare, Sustainability, and ConsumerTech, and more than 150 events were held on Metabus.

In the wake of this event, Smartsound Corporation said, “We will consider developing a virtual and sound healthcare solution that connects our innovative stethoscope and metaverse.“

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#Artificial Intelligence , #BEYOND EXPO 2022 , #Healthcare , #Metabus , #Stethoscope
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Smartsound Corporation signs Healthcare Business Agreement with LG Electronics

Smartsound Corporation signs Healthcare Business Agreement with LG Electronics

Smartsound(CEO Lee, Jung-ho) announced on the 5th that it recently held a business agreement ceremony with LG Electronics on its healthcare business.

The two companies decided to establish a close win-win cooperation system so that LG Electronics can smoothly develop a global market by applying a smart stethoscope “Skeeper” developed by Smartsound and a solution to diagnose human sound signals with AI.

Since its foundation in 2011, Smartsound has developed a human sound capturing (HSC) system, a key sound processing technology, and an IoT-based smart AI stethoscope “Skeeper” with AI technology, which is accelerating its global market development.

SKEEPER is known as the first solution to store and treat various human sound signals in the medical information system by linking with the EMR(Electronic Medical Record) system of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital.

In addition, through clinical cooperation with 10 of the world’s best general hospitals, including Korea University Anam Hospital, clinical data on the heart and lung sounds of patients visiting the hospital are collected and analyzed on the largest scale. It has secured AI diagnostic technology that can diagnose major symptoms of heart and lung diseases with high accuracy, which is the world’s No. 1 to No. 4 mortality rate, and is determined to stand as a leading company in the field of human voice AI diagnosis.

“The goal of LG Electronics’ healthcare solution business is to provide various solutions such as healthcare and non-face-to-face telemedicine so that customers can receive prevention-oriented medical services based on existing prescription and treatment management,” said Choi Kyu-nam, executive director of LG Electronics’ solution business.

“We expect LG Electronics to play an important role in expanding the global telemedicine and home care market through this business cooperation with Smartsound,” he stressed.

“Our dream is to become a new global leader in the AI smart stethoscope market,” said Lee Jung-ho, CEO of Smartsound. “This business cooperation will be a great help to accelerate the achievement of LG Electronics’ global healthcare business capabilities.”

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#AI diagnosis , #Bundang Seoul National University Hospital , #Business Agreement , #COVID-19 , #EMR , #Flexible Medical , #Healthcare , #Home Care , #Korea University Anam Hospital , #LG Electronics , #MOU , #Non-Face-To-Face Care , #Skipper , #Smart Sound , #Smart Stethoscope , #Telemedicine