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HP deploys virtual health platform to help deliver quality psychiatric care in rural India
As part of HP's continued commitment to making healthcare accessible to people living in remote parts of India, HP today announced the availability of a virtual health technology platform that will enable healthcare professionals to virtually conduct specialist psychiatric consultations with patients.
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- South Asia
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Japan Joins Fight Against Neglected Diseases
Tens of thousands of new compounds will be screened for effectiveness against critical illnesses
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66th World Health Assembly: 5 takeaways
The 66th World Health Assembly concluded with a number of resolutions and action plans adopted and approved in the more than week-long conference.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Innovations in Anesthesia: How Gradian Health Systems is making surgery safer at the BoP
Over 90 percent of the 5.8 million annual deaths from physical injury occur in low-income countries. Many of these deaths could be prevented with surgical treatment. But hospitals at the BoP lose power, on average, 18 times per month, making surgery difficult. Here’s how Gradian Health Systems is addressing this challenge.
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Success In mHealth: Shifting Focus from the ‘m’ to the ‘Health’
Many lament the slow pace at which formal mHealth innovations are mainstreamed, blaming a dearth of robust evidence and hesitant policy makers. Still, the pace of evidence is accelerating, and a possible future is not difficult to imagine.
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Four Innovative Models Changing Health Care In Africa
In Tanzania, giant pouched rats are trained to sniff out tuberculosis in human sputum samples. Dubbed HeroRATS, the animals can evaluate 40 samples in just seven minutes, equal to what a skilled lab technician can do in a full day. In northern Kenya, health services--including family planning services--are being brought to 36 remote, underserved communities by four-wheel drive vehicles, bicycles, camels and good old-fashioned human feet. And in Malawi, durable e-health hardware--even touch screen computers--that are significantly more robust in harsh environments with erratic power supplies are being manufactured by Malawians.
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The Accidental Social Enterprise: VSee’s unexpected foray into BoP health care
Milton Chen founded VSee to provide a fully encrypted, low bandwidth alternative to Skype. But his video conferencing and screen share application was soon adopted by BoP health care providers, which now represent a growing portion of the company’s business. In this post, Chen describes how VSee has catered to this unexpected market through a suite of innovative telemedicine tools.
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Announcing the Winners of the NextBillion Case Writing Competition
How BTPN Bank in Indonesia continues to service low-income borrowers is the subject of the winning case in the NextBillion’s Case Writing Contest. The case, “BTPN: Banking for the Bottom of the Pyramid in Indonesia,” was written by a team from University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce in Charlottesville.
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- Agriculture, Health Care