Kitea Helping the Brain Drain

MedTech Company

MARS Bioimaging, a New Zealand–headquartered medical device company, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its portable photon-counting CT scanner for upper extremity imaging.

Start-ups

Your GP orders a blood test. Off you go to a lab testing facility. The results come through and your GP asks to see you to follow-up. Do you live near a lab? What if you live deep in the rural sector? Can you get to a lab before or after work? Do you need time off work? When can you fit in another talk with your GP? Can you afford to pay your GP twice?

A start-up says its AI software can save New Zealand’s health system billions of dollars through better patient management – and address deaths caused by prescription errors, which it puts at “road toll” levels.