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First Medical Technology Incubator Created in India
India is a country known for its rich culture and amazing food, but for a country of more than 1.2 billion individuals, medical technologies are largely neglected. That is what makes InnAccel such a unique startup. It’s the first and currently only medical technology incubator in India.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Pivoting to Save Women’s Lives Was the Key to Success for This Medical Technology Startup
Here’s an upsetting statistic: approximately 800 women in developing countries die every day from preventable complications associated with pregnancy and childbirth. When Asa Nordgren and her co-founders realized that physicians were using their digital sonogram service Trice—originally invented as a way for doctors to avoid tedious printouts and CDs in Sweden — to collaborate remotely, they decided to pivot into the global healthcare market to help save women around the world.
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- Health Care
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10 Global Health Trends from 2015 and What They Mean for the New Year
It's not too early in 2016 to see a few emerging themes: a transition toward local ownership of health priorities, financing and implementation; a growing need to understand and target specific segments of populations; and a shift in focus to several emerging areas of opportunity which are new to the global health agenda.
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First Time, Plan to Map Every Doctor, Health Facility in the Country
For the first time, the government will map health facilities, doctors and specialists available in all districts of the country. The health geo-mapping project has already been completed in four districts chosen as a pilot. When the entire country is covered, the project will cost around Rs 100 crore as per initial estimates drawn up by the Ministry of Health.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Evolko Systems Targets Rural India With New Health Solutions
Sickness is a great equalizer -- it hits the poor and the rich uniformly. While most startups in the healthcare sector have been on a frenzy to tap the urban markets, a San Francisco-based firm has devised a method to successfully cater to the bottom of the pyramid at scale.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Improving Lives and Livelihoods With Better Healthcare in Chile
The Chilean company AccuHealth, a pioneer in virtual clinical hospitals, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a patient-centric tele-monitoring service designed to improve the health and livelihoods of chronically ill patients with value-added medical care at an affordable cost. BCtA is a global initiative that encourages companies to fight poverty through inclusive business models. It is supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other international organizations.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Latin America
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Facebook’s Campaign in India Provokes Controversy
Facebook is calling on Indian users to send an email to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), asking the government agency to support its Free Basics program. The campaign, which shows up when users sign onto the social media platform and includes a pre-filled form so they don’t even have to write an email, has already proven controversial, with opponents saying its message undermines net neutrality in India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Unilever, Acumen invest $800,000 in cleaner cookstoves
Acumen and Unilever announced they will invest nearly $800,000 to enable BURN Manufacturing to bring its new low-cost, energy-efficient, wood-burning cook stove, the Kuniokoa, to smallholder and plantation workers in tea estates in Kenya and Tanzania.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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