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HMI Group, a Southeast Asian private healthcare provider, has established a five-year partnership with German medical technology firm Siemens Healthineers.
WHAT IT S ABOUT
The partnership will see HMI Group investing over SG$32 million (about $24 million) to launch new medical technologies and digitalisation platforms. It will also look at building Centres of Excellence (CoE) to improve treatment and patient care options for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) cancer, neuroscience and cardiovascular diseases.
WHY IT MATTERS
The partners intend to advance healthcare delivery in the region. As the care of our patients is at the center of everything that we do, our partnership will accelerate the adoption of connected health, thereby providing faster access to care, while building telehealth and predictive analytics capabilities at scale, all of which will go a long way in enhancing our patients journey towards a healthier outcome, said HMI Group CE
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