Following Ant Group’s acquisition of Haodf, a healthcare platform specializing in online doctor consultations, Ant Group President Cyril Han and Haodf.com Founder Hang Wang have jointly announced their plans to drive AI-powered healthcare innovations. Ant Group said in a statement on last Saturday that these efforts aim to help 280,000 doctors on the Haodf platform work more efficiently and better serve 800 million healthcare users on the Alipay super app. At Haodf.com’s annual...

Singapore-headquartered healthcare investor August Global Partners (AGP) is investing in Vietnam=based genomic testing company Gene Solutions (GS) through a proprietary funding round. Gene Solutions said in a statement that the duo have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the partnership. Under the MoU, GS will support broader adoption of precision medicine and targeted therapeutics in Asia through the development of a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that...