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The Little Yellow Box That’s Made Thousands of Operations Safer
Gundegmaa Tumurbaatar glimpsed her son only for an instant as he was carried into the ageing Soviet-built hospital where she works. It was one of the first fine days after the gruelling Mongolian winter, and she had left Gunbileg, aged three, and his older brother playing outside, telling them to be careful. Now, he was moaning in pain and covered from head to toe in filth and blood. A passer-by had brought Gunbileg to the hospital after seeing the two boys trying to jump over an open manhole above a sewer – watching in horror as the younger boy had fallen into the jagged pit on his abdomen. By the time Gundegmaa saw him, he was in shock, his belly frighteningly distended, an internal haemorrhage putting him at imminent risk of cardiac arrest.
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ThinkMD Partners With Development Company DAI to Deploy Mobile Clinical Assessment Tool
Healthcare technology company ThinkMD has partnered with international development company DAI to bring ThinkMD’s first digital health product to scale. DAI also led ThinkMD’s latest funding round for an undisclosed amount.
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mClinica raises $6.3m to transform global health data
The round is one of the largest financings for a health tech startup in Southeast Asia, according to Tech in Asia data. It was led by Silicon Valley-based Unitus Impact and joined by London-headquartered Global Innovation Fund, MDI Ventures of Indonesia, and US-based Endeavor Catalyst. Existing investors 500 Startups, IMJ Investment Partners, and Kickstart Ventures also put in some cash.
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Nikhil Pereira-Kamath Pioneers Healthcare Network in Africa
Nikhil Pereira-Kamath is on to something big, something really big in Africa. His passion for health care for those who need the most made his job easy to take a break from the Harvard Business School, and head to Africa to start Africa Healthcare Network.
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Think scale! Engaging Private Pharmacies to Improve Public Health
Lisinopril 20 mg by mouth at 8am? Check. After verifying the patient’s identification, I scanned the medication barcodes into the computer one by one, performing the third and final, confirmation of the “five rights” of medication administration – right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, and right time. As a new nursing student these principles had formed a foundation of my fledgling practice.
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Nikhil Pereira-Kamath Pioneers Healthcare Network in Africa
Nikhil Pereira-Kamath is on to something big, something really big in Africa. His passion for health care for those who need the most made his job easy to take a break from the Harvard Business School, and head to Africa to start Africa Healthcare Network.
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In Delivery Drones, Scrappy Can Beat Costly
A drone named Frankenstein may hold important lessons for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, in humanitarian aid, development or environmental conservation.
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Tanzania: Helpage Devises Health Monitoring Tools for Elderly
Helpage International has come up with Health Outcome Tools (HOT) in data collection for health and care indicators, especially in assessing the impact of interventions for older persons' health and wellbeing. HelpAge International Country Director, Amleset Tewodros, said HOT is a monitoring and evaluation tool developed for understanding projects or programmes that aim to benefit older men and women in low middle income countries.
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