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The ‘Treacherous’ Transition from a Great Tech Idea to Sustainable Business
Hyrax Biosciences recently developed Exatype, a software solution that enables health care workers to quickly and affordably determine HIV positive patients’ responsiveness to treatment. In this Q&A, Dr. Kirsten Miller-Duys, business development lead, discusses Exatype’s implications for global health, plans to turn it into a sustainable business, and Africa's emerging tech sector.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Micro-Health insurance Startup Wins Seedstars Dar es Salaam
Mobile micro-health insurance startup Jamii has been named Tanzania’s best startup at the Seedstars Dar es Salaam pitching competition, and will represent the country at the global finals to be held in Switzerland in March 2017.
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- Health Care
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GE Healthcare to invest up to $50 million in start-up accelerator programme
GE Healthcare, the $18 billion healthcare technology division of General Electric Co., will provide funding of up to $50 million for global start-ups under its new accelerator five.eight programme, aimed at improving affordable healthcare in emerging markets.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Rice Engineer Secures Prestigious $625,000 ‘Genius Grant’
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, a bioengineering professor at Rice University, was named a 2016 MacArthur Fellow by the MacArthur Foundation.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Doctors Test Drones to Speed Up Delivery of Lab Tests
Three years ago, Geoff Baird bought a drone. The Seattle dad and hobby plane enthusiast used the 2.5-pound quadcopter to photograph the Hawaiian coastline and film his son's soccer and baseball games.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Apollo Spectra Hospitals, Quadio Introduce Net Audiometry Services
Apollo Spectra Hospitals, part of Apollo Health and Lifestyle Ltd. (AHLL), one of the largest players in the healthcare segment, for the first time has partnered with Pune based hearing health care provider Quadio Labs for their maiden telemedicine services.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Cisco Targets India With Strategic Digital Solutions Across Sectors
Global networking heavyweight Cisco Ltd. is making several strategic moves in India to strengthen its market in India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Discovery to Take South Africa e-Health Entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley
South African insurance firm Discovery has launched its Entrepreneurs Medical Technology programme, which will take local e-health startups on a trip to Silicon Valley later this year.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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