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Tablets Improve Family Planning Service in Rural Kenya
In Kenya, mobile technology usage is quickly becoming more popular. While these solutions increase access to services, many rural health facilities lack ability to provide adequate service delivery.
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Healthcare on the cheap – innovations from Appropriate Healthcare Technologies event
It takes years for a manufacturer to demonstrate that a new medical device is effective and safe. But, if a less-than-perfect, cheaper innovation can save lives in the developing world, it should be made available, said speakers at the Appropriate Healthcare Technologies event in London, UK. Ledetta Asfa-Wossen reviews four design innovations.
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Expanding Healthcare Needs and Technology Advancements Drive the Global Stethoscopes Market
Despite the advent of several newer technologies such as electrocardiography, hand-held ultrasounds, among others, stethoscopes continue to be the primary device used by healthcare professionals for listening to sounds emanating from the heart and other body organs.
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Technology Booms in Nigeria But E-health Lags: Private sector recommended to harness opportunities
More than 13 years after the implementation of the National Health Insurance Scheme, less than 3 percent of Nigerians have been covered, compared to 65 percent of the population in Ghana over a similar time frame. The reason? The public sector in Nigeria is failing to deliver.
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AAPI India summit to focus on health information technology
A Global Healthcare Summit organised by an influential body of Indian American physicians in Ahmadabad in January would focus on how to use modern technology more effectively in providing efficient care to patients.
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Samsung Electronics push medical equipment for remote areas
With the shortage of skilled medical personnel and resources in outlying rural areas of Africa, Samsung Electronics says its diagnostic medical technology solutions could be the ideal healthcare for impoverished rural areas.
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Health IT takes hold around the world
Healthcare IT plays a central role in modern healthcare strategies. As a relatively new component of healthcare, there is still much to learn about how best to integrate digital health systems. Keeping an eye out for successes and innovations -- learning opportunities around the world -- should be a priority for all countries.
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GE Healthcare hopes to record double digit growth in MRI, CT segments in India
GE targets to develop 100 low cost solutions in India to address India’s and world’s healthcare challenges in the area of cancer, cardiac diseases and maternal/infant care.
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