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To treat innovation ills, remove funding roadblocks
The effects of the federal shutdown, combined with budget cuts implemented this year as a result of sequestration, pose a significant barrier to healthcare innovation in both the public and private sectors.
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Malnutrition is biggest global health problem, Gates Foundation exec tells CU students
Malnutrition plays a major role in the deaths each year of 6.6 million children under 5 years of age, a global health expert told Creighton University premed students Tuesday.
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User Participation: The Secret to Successful Prototyping
This is the final post in a three-part series from Grameen Foundation that has discussed designing products and services for poor people. In this post, Tanya Rabourn reviews how to involve the user in the prototyping process to ensure a financial product that will truly serve their needs.
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Calling Global Health Innovators: Accelerator designed to help ‘bright spots’ reach scale
A new partnership has the goal of developing innovative solutions to global development challenges. They’re looking for six new entrepreneurs to join their second cohort in January, with an application deadline of Nov. 1.
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Agricultural Mobile Finance: Understanding patterns of daily life at the BoP to leverage market solutions
The growth of mobile technology can lead to disruptive business model innovations in many sectors. One such innovation is agricultural mobile finance that can benefit all the participants in the field-to-fork value chain. But connecting farmers to formal banking on their mobile phones will require multi-stakeholder alliances, market research and an end-user design approach, says Lee Babcock.
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Low-cost healthcare: US can take cue from India
The United States may be good at innovations in medicines, procedures and equipment. But it should learn from India how to keep health care affordable, says a new study. India's private hospitals provided world-class health care at a fraction of US prices using innovative ways to manage costs, personnel, equipment and even real estate.
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GSMA Releases Initial Findings Of 2013 Mobile Money Adoption Survey
The GSMA today issued the initial findings of its 2013 Mobile Money Adoption Survey.
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