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Hewlett Packard’s eHealth Center Curing Poor Patients
Today, the primary healthcare infrastructure covers less than 20% of the country’s primary healthcare needs. To address this issue and help patients in the rural and remote areas, in 2012 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) launched the eHealth Center (eHC) initiative which is simple, easy to deploy and rapidly scalable solution that leverages technology to create patient-centric healthcare systems at affordable costs. The solutions include a shipping container which is low cost and easy to deploy in the remotest of villages and carry medical instruments like a small laboratory, ECG, spirometer, digital thermometer and other basic medical equipments. To understand more about this, Dataquest spoke to Lux Rao, Chief Technologist, Technology Services, HPE India.
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Glaxo Proposes Biopreparedness Unit for Outbreaks Like Zika
As the Zika virus spreads and concern grows about the world’s preparedness for outbreaks, GlaxoSmithKline Plc is proposing the creation of a unit dedicated to developing vaccines for diseases in markets offering little potential profit.
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South Africa m-Health Startup Vula Mobile Diversifies Offering
South African startup Vula Mobile, which connects general health workers in remote areas with specialists in hospitals, has diversified its offering having seen positive uptake of its service targeting eye health.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sisu Global Health Closing in on $1M Seed Round
The company that makes a low-cost blood transfusion device received the first investment from a new fund focused on Maryland startups.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PEPFAR and AstraZeneca Launch Partnership Across HIV and Hypertension Services in Africa
The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca today announced a $10 million (subject to the availability of funds), five-year global public-private partnership that will expand access to HIV/AIDS and hypertension services by offering them in an integrated manner at existing PEPFAR-supported HIV/AIDS sites, beginning in Kenya.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Key Implementers of U.S. Global Health Efforts
To carry out global health efforts around the world, the U.S. government (USG) funds a wide range of implementing entities, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), multilateral/international organizations, private sector organizations, educational institutions, and other governments.
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- Health Care
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Vanessa Zommi: The Entrepreneur Fighting Diabetes With Tea
Vanessa Zommi’s business is flourishing in her native Cameroon. She has an established business with social entrepreneurship at its heart. Zommi got an early taste for entrepreneurship by watching her mother sell computers after school, “I started learning how to make money, how to market a product, and how to talk to customers. I learnt the basics.” These early experiences would shape her future immensely.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Shared Priorities Make India-Africa Health Tie-Up Critical: ICMR Chief
In an attempt to bring down dependence on the West for expertise on health research, the government is preparing the ground for a partnership with the African continent.
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- Health Care
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