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South Florida Hospital System Breaks Into $30B Telemedicine Market
Spanish-language telemedicine provider Mediconecta will team up with Miami Children’s Health System to spur growth in the digital health industry.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- North America
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Bill Gates keen to partner India on e-health, e-payment through his Foundation
Bill Gates, co-founder of American technology giant Microsoft is keen to partner with the Indian government for technology driven social projects such as e-health, e-agriculture and e-payment. Gates, who met union minister for communications and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad in the capital on Thursday has also also evinced interest in partnering with start-ups that can provide these services to the bottom of the pyramid.
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- Health Care, Technology
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NIH-led effort examines use of big data for infectious disease surveillance
Big data derived from electronic health records, social media, the internet and other digital sources have the potential to provide more timely and detailed information on infectious disease threats or outbreaks than traditional surveillance methods.
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- Health Care, Technology
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M-Wallets Surge in Small Towns in Nation-Wide Cash-Crunch in India
As India outlawed its two biggest banknotes, mobile wallets are witnessing a spurt in enquiries and usage in small towns, as unavailability of currency hit wide across the country.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- digital payments, fintech
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Indian Company Protoprint Transforms Waste into 3D Printing Filament for Commercial Use
This week, we reported on New Zealand-based Waikato University’s revolutionary FDM technology-based 3D printing method that allows anyone to print complex objects by converting waste material into thermoplastic filament, and we’ve seen several initiatives around the world focused on bringing waste material into reuse via 3D printing.
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- Environment, Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Nigerian startup Aajoh beta testing AI e-health innovation
Nigerian startup Aajoh is beta testing an e-health tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose patients. Aajoh chief executive officer (CEO) Simi Adejumo was one of nine African entrepreneurs selected to attend the MITx Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in Cambridge, Massachusetts in August of last year.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Zipline raises $25 million to deliver medical supplies by drone
Zipline International Inc. has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round to expand its humanitarian delivery drone business in Rwanda, the U.S. and beyond. The startup builds drones and runs delivery services, dropping crucial medical supplies to clinics or hospitals in areas that aren’t accessible by land.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Modi’s ‘Masterstroke’ Cash Ban to Boost India Digital Push
Cash may no longer be king in India. The nation’s nascent digital economy stands to be the biggest beneficiary of its strongest crackdown on corruption since 1978.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- digital payments, fintech