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Can Any Old Phone Become a Spirometer?
Technology that was first rolled out in 2012 as a smartphone app has now been adapted so that virtually any telephone connection—cell phone, landline, or internet call—can be used to analyze a person’s pulmonary function in the clinic.
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S. Korea to launch telemedicine project in Rwanda
The South Korean government, KT Corp. and Severance Hospital will team up to launch a telemedicine project in Rwanda, Africa, marking the first step of Korea’s global telemedicine project supported by government, business and hospital, an idea that has long been championed by the country’s President Park Geun-hye.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In Search of the Best Health Care Innovators in the World
The Innovations in Healthcare network currently includes 67 innovators operating in 49 countries and serving more than 7 million people. They're looking for more creative organizations to join the network, based on three main criteria: innovative approach, readiness to scale and sustainability. The deadline for nominations is Sept. 16.
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GSK and Google parent forge $715 million bioelectronic medicines firm
GlaxoSmithKline and Google parent Alphabet's life sciences unit are creating a new company focused on fighting diseases by targeting electrical signals in the body, jump-starting a novel field of medicine called bioelectronics.
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IBM steps up efforts in fight against Zika
International Business Machines said on Wednesday it would provide its technology and resources to help track the spread of the Zika virus. Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), a leading research institution affiliated with the Brazilian Ministry of Health, plans to use IBM’s technology to analyze information from official data about human travel patterns to anecdotal observations recorded on social media.
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Rwanda: Babyl Launches Digital Healthcare System
A new digital health care system for patients to access doctors through their mobile devices was introduced yesterday at the opening of this year's trade exhibition in Gikondo, Kigali.
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Press Release: Rijuven Releases ‘Clinic in a Bag’
Clinic in a Bag is the newest and most robust examination platform from Rijuven. Designed to be deployed alongside a clinician to any point of care, Clinic in a Bag or “CIB” provides clinical decision support outside of the facility by combining a highly comprehensive suite of connected devices with cloud analysis, remote monitoring capabilities, telemedicine connectivity, EMR patient management and on-demand scheduling.
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This Indian Tech Disruptor Is Changing India’s Health Insurance Claims System
If you suffer the misfortune of being an inpatient in the Indian medical system, you may find your time spent trying to file health insurance claims ends up being longer than your time as a patient, because it’s all being filed by hand. One company set out to be the first to solve this, finding an unusual new problem ahead.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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