KroniKare cuts wound diagnosis to mere seconds

Singapore

WHEN Hossein Nejati and his team developed a skin cancer product and presented it to the National Skin Centre (NSC) more than three years ago, he did not expect a wound nurse to question him on it.

Remembering that experience, he recalled that she approached them after the presentation.

"Chronic wound care is a much larger problem than skin cancer, so why didn't you apply the same technology for wound care analysis?" the nurse had asked.

That seemingly simple question led him to rope in businessman Ali Y Aladdin on board and led to birth of KroniKare Pte Ltd, a health tech start-up that uses an artificial intelligence (AI)-controlled thermal imaging system to scan and assess the severity and depth of wounds wi…