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Analysis: How Digital Technology Helped Support Ghana’s COVID Response
Real-time surveillance of reported COVID infections has been key to the global pandemic response. Many tools, devices and apps have been used to support surveillance.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Verizon Business and Visionable Join Forces To Make Connected Healthcare a Reality
Verizon Business and Visionable have partnered to deliver a single secure infrastructure for healthcare providers across the APAC and EMEA regions
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Global
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South Africa’s RecoMed Raises $1.5 Million To Scale Its Online Healthcare Marketplace
South African online healthcare marketplace RecoMed has raised a $1.5 million financing round, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Havells, Godrej Family Offices, Samara Capital, Form Healthcare Platform Marengo in India
Samara Capital, Havells Family Investment Office, and Godrej Family Investment Office have come together to set up Marengo Asia Healthcare, a platform that will run multispecialty hospital chains.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Africa Tries to End Vaccine Inequity by Replicating Its Own
In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world’s poorest people.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MPharma, a Telehealth Pioneer Out of Ghana, Gets Physical With 100 Virtual Centers Across Africa
The potential for telehealth across Africa is vast and promising as mobile connectivity deepens, and innovations that could potentially bridge the doctor-patient ratio gap increase, according to a Deloitte report.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Amazon Web Services Launches $40 Million Initiative That Aims To Reduce Health Inequities
Amazon Web Services will provide $40 million in credits and technical support over three years for organizations working to enhance health and reduce inequities in care.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Global
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Finding Opportunity in a Crisis: How Hatch Technologies Started a New Medical Device Venture During a Global Pandemic
In July 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic was spreading aggressively across Africa. That's the same month Hatch Technologies, a nonprofit supporting newborn medical device distribution and services in sub-Saharan Africa, launched its operations. Dick Oranja, Hatch's executive director, discusses the challenges of starting a new venture during one of the most financially and logistically demanding times the world has experienced – and explores why the pandemic proved to be a surprisingly opportune time to launch.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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