OUR VISION
AI platform to transform healthcare for a billion people
About Us
We live in a world where two thirds of the planet’s population have insufficient access to radiologists, making it a challenge to implement health screening at the population level… leading to loss of opportunity for early diagnosis and treatment to save lives.
At iota medtech, we aim is to collaborate with healthcare providers, radiologists, and medical specialists to co-create and launch solutions to solve healthcare challenges globally.
We are developing multiple AI medical products to improve patient outcomes in areas such as prioritization of urgent medical cases, and medical imaging health screening at the population level.
Since June 2019, where we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Neuroscience Institute to develop a priority sorting system for brain scans for head injury patients, we have since then embarked on multiple AI projects to make early diagnosis more accessible for healthcare practitioners and patients.
To accelerate the development of our AI products, we developed our AI assisted annotation platform, called iota AIAA. This platform is available to be deployed in a healthcare cloud and it can speed up AI product development and annotation by up to 10 times, saving precious time for our AI developers & collaborating radiologists when co-creating AI products for early detection of cancer, intracranial hemorrhage, strokes and more...
The core of our mission at iota medtech goes far beyond developing AI-led solutions in healthcare, it is to provide a platform for clinicians, radiologists, and healthcare providers to join us to transform healthcare for the millions of people living in Asia, the US and beyond.
Management Team / Collaborators
Benjamin Hong
Chief Executive Officer
Ben has over two decades of experience with leading technology companies, developing, commercializing and launching innovative new products at both the regional and global level. In iota medtech, he leads initiatives across product and platform, patent applications, intellectual property asset management, business development, legal and corporate functions.
He is a graduate of the National University of Singapore where he earned a Master of Science degree.
In June 2019, Ben led iota medtech into a strategic partnership with the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) to develop a priority sorting system for brain scans for head injury patients, to achieve a vision of humans and AI working seamlessly together to improve outcomes for patients.
In 2020, Ben participated in the 500 Startups – Accelerator Program, where iota medtech and 8 other companies were selected from a pool of 100+ start-up applicants to be part of the 500 Startups Global Launch Program in San Francisco.
In 2022, Ben led the team to emerge as the Winner in the AI/ML Reactor Program organised by AWS & Epiphany from over 270 applicants across 45 cities.
Edward Tan
Chief Technology Officer
Edward joined iota medtech with prior experience in GovTech, having helmed Chief Information Officer roles for Smart Nation, Digital Government Office; and Prime Minister Office (Strategy Group).
His hands on approach in implementing and scaling critical information technology systems has resulted in systems that have positively impacted many Singaporeans. Most recently, Edward served as agency Chief Info-Security Officer in cyber security management.
Edward's expertise and specialization in cyber security risk management is essential to enabling iota's health related platforms to have the necessary cybersecurity safeguards.
He is a graduate of the National University of Singapore where he earned a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree.
In iota medtech, he leads initiatives by outlining the company's technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company's business needs.
Dr. Justin Ker
Collaborator & Associate Consultant, Department of Neurosurgery, NNI
Dr Justin Ker is a Consultant with the Department of Neurosurgery at the National Neuroscience Institute. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University, USA with a Bachelor’s of Science in Biological Sciences, and minors in Biomedical Engineering and English. Thereafter, he graduated from the University of Sydney, Australia with a Bachelor’s of Medicine and Surgery.
His research interests include Artificial Intelligence (AI) and traumatic brain injury and the application of machine learning to medical image analysis.
He received the International Merit Scholarship from The University of Sydney and the Nanyang Technological University–National Neuroscience Institute Neurotechnology Fellowship.
Dr. Lim Choie Tchoyoson
Collaborator & Senior Consultant, Department of Neuroradiology, NNI
Dr. Tchoyoson received the M.B.B.S. degree, and the Master of Medicine degree from the National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Since 2005, he has been a Senior Consultant with the National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore, and he has co-authored over 100 peer reviewed articles and holds two U.S. patents in medical image archiving.
He served on the editorial boards of many journals, including the British Journal of Radiology Case Reports, the Annals of the Academy of Medicine, and the Singapore Medical Journal, and he has been a reviewer for numerous journals, such as the British Journal of Radiology, European Radiology, Neuroradiology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.
He is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. He is also a fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, U.K., and Academy of Medicine, Singapore. He served as the Secretary of the Singapore Radiological Society