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GE Healthcare plans $2 billion investment for software development
Will focus on advancing current and future technology offerings through the convergence of machine and intelligent data
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Help end poverty, World Bank tells private sector
The World Bank is undertaking an ambitious goal to end extreme global poverty within a generation by encouraging the involvement of the private sector.
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- Technology
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Google’s Next Cloud Product: Google Blimps To Bring Wireless Internet to Africa
Not content with offering super-fast broadband in Austin and Kansas City, Google has plans to use blimps to deliver wide-area wireless internet connectivity in Africa and other emerging markets, according to reports in the the Wall Street Journal and a post on Google’s Africa blog.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A social media platform for the rural masses
Mobile Vaani is an interactive voice response system that enables people to share and create content
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- South Asia
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At Grameen Foundation, an international nonprofit becomes a software developer
The Grameen Foundation was providing health care to pregnant women in Ghana in 2010 when the organization had an idea: As cellphones become more widely available in developing nations, health information can be quickly disseminated to poor patients in remote locations via voice and text messaging.
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Timeline: Smartphone-enabled health devices
Mobile health has come a long way since the start of 2009 when Apple demonstrated on-stage at its World Wide Developer Conference how blood pressure monitors and blood glucose meters could connect to the iPhone 3G via cables or Bluetooth. MobiHealth News has tracked smartphone-enabled health and fitness devices over the course of the past five years.
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China’s Healthcare Choice: Innovation or Access?
China today faces a dilemma in healthcare development between the present and the future. A fundamental choice will need to be made between financial incentives for future medical innovation or price controls that broaden present access to care
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First non-surgical circumcision device could slow spread of AIDS in Africa, officials say
Health officials have approved a first-of-its-kind, non-surgical circumcision device hailed as a potential game-changer in the battle to forestall the spread of AIDS in Africa.Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/06/02/first-non-surgical-circumcision-device-could-slow-spread-aids-in-africa/#ixzz2VFUOK1lS
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