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IBM to accelerate tech innovations in healthcare entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
Eyeing the burgeoning need to build innovations, scale up quickly and accelerate growth, IBM is empowering the next generation of healthcare start-ups that develop solutions to solve the most complex health problems in the country.
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- South Asia
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Advances in AI and ML are reshaping health care
Applications of AI and ML in health care have enabled the industry to take on some of its biggest challenges in personal genetics, drug discovery and disease identification and management.
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- Health Care
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CAMTech-X: Jugaadathon convenes India’s brightest minds to improve healthcare for country’s urban poor
Hundreds of global health innovators gathered in five cities across the country this past weekend for India’s largest multi-city healthcare hack-a-thon, hosted by The Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Global Health.
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The Startups Using Apps and Phones to Solve the Global Healthcare Crisis
At this year's WIRED Health, pharmaceutical company Sandoz is launching its first-ever startup competition. Sandoz HACk challenges young entrepreneurs to use mobile-health technologies to help bring access to healthcare in tough environments.
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How Lattice Innovations fills the gap in healthcare by design
Three years ago, Chayan Chatterjee and his colleagues Soura Bhattacharyya and Sahil Mehta were heading the medical technology group at a Kolkata-based affordable-care provider.Their goal was to identify ways in which technology could be used to deliver high-quality, affordable care -a quest that took them to small towns and villages.
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14 Social Entrepreneurs to Improve Maternal & Child Health in Africa
Today, in Nairobi, Kenya, the GE healthymagination Mother and Child Programme will graduate 14 social entrepreneurs who completed training and mentorship aimed at improving and accelerating maternal and/or child health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa.
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These 3 Healthcare Startups Are Tapping Into India’s Soon-To-Be Booming IoT Market
Just like the dot com buzz, Internet of Things (IoT) has caught everyone’s attention in India. The excitement further spiked when the Indian government announced its plans to create a $15 billion IoT market in the country. IoT is an ecosystem of connected physical objects that are accessible through the Internet.
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It’s a bird…It’s a plane…It’s an edible aid drone!
Edible drones filled with food, water or medicine could soon become indispensable in humanitarian emergencies by delivering live-saving supplies to remote areas hit by natural disasters or conflict, their designers said on Monday.
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- Health Care
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