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Indian hospital shows how mobility can improve healthcare in rural areas
By using telemedicine application for mobile devices, Balabhai Nanavati Hospital is demonstrating how mobility can truly transform the way healthcare services are delivered to rural communities.
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- Health Care, Technology, Transportation
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Healthcare providers in India to spend $1.1 billion on IT in 2014: Gartner
Healthcare providers in India are expected to spend $1.1 billion on IT products and services in 2014, a 5 per cent rise over 2013.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Inflatable Incubator for Premature Babies Wins Dyson’s $45K Prize
In developing countries, childbirth is a high-risk affair—particularly if the baby’s born premature. In countries like the United States, we often put these babies in incubators until they’re able to make it on their own. But access to sophisticated equipment isn’t a given everywhere in the world. Incubators in particular are expensive, require constant electricity, and they can be complicated to operate and maintain. “I just thought, ‘there has to be a better way of doing this,’” says James Roberts.
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- Health Care
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Can We Rely on the Private Sector to Halt Malaria in Africa?
Aid organizations are selling discount drugs directly to shopkeepers in hopes of quelling the parasitic disease
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Facebook adds button designed to make it easier for users to donate to charities battling Ebola
Facebook is stepping up its efforts to fight Ebola by adding a button designed to make it easier for its users to donate to charities battling the disease.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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India to lose over $4.58 trillion to non-communicable diseases
India stands to lose $4.58 trillion due to non-communicable diseases and mental disorders between 2012 and 2030, an amount more than double India's annualGDP, according to a report.
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Pharmaceuticals industry facing fundamental change
Pharmaceuticals is an extraordinarily profitable business.
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- Health Care
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Apollo Hospitals to focus on rural areas
Apollo Hospitals plans to ride the next wave of growth with expansion in rural sector, Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, said. The hospital chain plans to add at least 14 Reach Hospitals in rural regions at a cost of ? 1,800 crore by 2016 and plans more in the coming years.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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