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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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CAMTech’s Open Innovation Platform to Address Diabetes Epidemic in India
The Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Global Health will host a Diabetes Innovation Hack-a-thon in Hyderabad on October 10-11, 2015. Organized in partnership with Lattice Innovations and with support from Marico Innovation Foundation (MIF), Terumo and Medtronic, the event brings together some of India’s brightest minds to develop innovative and affordable health technologies that will improve the prevention, diagnosis and management of diabetes in India and globally.
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JSPL Foundation Ties Up With ECHO to Provide Speciality Healthcare in Rural India
The tie up will help gain access to real-time medical consultations for complex medical cases in areas that have scarce resources.
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UNICEF, Philips launch maternal and child care innovations project
Kenya is set to benefit from a joint project of UNICEF and the Philips Foundation which targets at reducing maternal and child mortality rates.
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Sisu Global Heath wins $100,000 investment from AOL co-founder Steve Case
A Baltimore startup that developed a surgical tool to recycle the blood of a patient suffering from internal bleeding landed a $100,000 investment Monday from AOL co-founder Steve Case, winning a "live pitch" competition among eight Baltimore companies.
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A Johns Hopkins team designed an Ebola suit so good, it’s going on the market
Youseph Yazdi was surprised by the number of people who jumped in to help design better protective gear for people helping Ebola victims – everyone from freshmen to robotics experts to a wedding-dress maker. But he was even more surprised when the solutions the team came up with at the hackathon at Johns Hopkins University attracted the notice of leading producers of protective clothing. A version of the suit they designed will be manufactured by DuPont and available early next year, the university announced Monday.
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Viewpoint: Racing to Save Lives
Every day in India, people are going blind, not getting tumours detected, living with treatable chronic pain, not developing their brain cells, losing limbs, and dying while the solutions are stuck in the labs of some of India’s brightest inventors. These challenges are not unique to India, but the magnitude of potential lives to improve or save is. Innovation needs to accelerate, and the pathway from labs to patients needs to be shorter and easier.
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