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Apollo Goes Digital, Launches Ask Apollo for Remote Patient Care
Apollo Hospitals introduced its soon-to-be-launched digital platform for healthcare, Ask Apollo, in Bengaluru on?Wednesday. The platform, which is due to be launched on Friday, aims to provide remote healthcare.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Ampion East Africa Venture Bus Tour Kicks Off
Africa is full of dreams and dreamers; dreamers who have great visions; visions that are the backbones of opportunities. The dreamers need a continent that can offer better technological solutions, better education, better service delivery, better healthcare and better and efficient platforms for doing business.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Biotech Firm Xenex Taking Its Germ-Zapping Robots to Africa
Xenex Disinfection Services, a San Antonio-based developer of robotic devices used to disinfect hospital facilities and eradicate often deadly health care infections, is expanding its product reach internationally. Xenex has struck a deal with Serenus Biotherapeutics, which is introducing the local biotech company’s pulsed xenon, ultraviolet room disinfection system to a number of African nations, including Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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1 Stop Aksh Launches e-Health Service “Ask a Doctor” at e-Mitra Kiosks in Rajasthan
1 Stop Aksh, the e-governance arm of Aksh Optifibre Limited [BSE: 532351 | NSE: AKSHOPTFBR] and e-Mitra, a leading government initiative in Rajasthan for connecting villages through IT infrastructure, today announced that it has launched its first e-Health service at its kiosks where a citizen can ask a doctor about his or her health issues.
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Barclays Africa Selects 10 Startups for e-Health, Fintech Accelerator
Barclays Africa has chosen 10 startups from the e-health and fintech sectors to take part in its 13-week Tech Lab accelerator programme, aimed at providing startups with access to business mentors, industry leaders, influencers and experts.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Innovative Infant Resuscitator May Be Introduced in India
An innovation that enables infants, who have difficulty in breathing, to respire immediately after birth, developed by a researcher from the faculty of Harvard Medical School along with a few others could be introduced in India.
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Digital Health Market Growth Forecast at 16.87% CAGR to 2019
The Global Digital Health Market - Market Research 2015-2019 report says telemedicine technology has huge potential in rural areas and developing economies such as African countries due to the lack of experienced physicians in these areas.
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Quick Tech Fixes Can’t Solve All Healthcare Problems
Often, public attention gravitates to simple fixes to large-scale problems — with reason, as such solutions are appealing, and sometimes they work. But a recent flurry of projects is supporting health through complex packages of solutions, including an organization supporting vision in Africa, a tech project in South Asia and even part of America’s Affordable Care Act.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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