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Taking Technology to the Last Mile: After seeing inequities in rural health care in India, Sujay Santra invented iKure
Sujay Santra discusses why he founded iKure, why he set it up as a social entreprenership and some of the challenges the organization’s encountered in the past five years.
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- Environment, Health Care
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New Ways of Delivering Healthcare
One of the biggest barriers to realising the national agenda of "healthcare for all" is tackling the existent complex, disorganised and expensive system of healthcare.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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A Patch That Delivers Vaccines, No Needles Necessary
Special packaging lets the patches go without refrigeration for 10 weeks, far longer than vaccine solution.
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- Health Care
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Can ‘Supergeeks’ Save Kenya’s Babies?
Lack of basic equipment could explain why Kenya is struggling to reduce maternal mortality rates.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Medtech Business Opportunities: There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom
There is a huge underserved market for medical technology—roughly two-thirds of the global population—that is largely ignored by the medtech industry. That market sits at the base of the pyramid (BoP), and it is composed primarily of populations in the emerging global markets. A report from global business consultancy PWC, "Quality healthcare for all: Starting from a strong base," considers this market to be a tremendous opportunity for companies to do good, both in business terms and for the human condition. "There may be no better place to look than the BoP healthcare market to seek new business," write PWC analysts. "Companies that do may find huge revenue potential combined with the opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people through access to better healthcare."
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- Health Care
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‘We Aim to Bring Affordable and Convenient Healthcare for Every Individual in India’
After the successful launch of a free pick and drop service to all hospitals, diagnostics and pathology labs in Delhi, UBER and OXXY expanded it to Mumbai on World Health Day, with the additional benefit of online. While Uber provides the free ride, OXXY allows customers to compare prices of tests/ surgeries/ treatment as well as avail of discounts at medical centres. Pankaj Gupta, Founder, OXXY reveals company’s plans to Usha Sharma.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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What’s Tripping Healthcare in India and How Startups Are Tackling It
Today, in India, banks send alerts on financial risks instantaneously, ecommerce companies use tech tools to coax users to buy, and social networking sites are creating personality profiles of its users. However, hospitals still do not have the technology to predict and alert us about critical health risks. Most of them don’t even have digital systems to capture medical data to create a health history.
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- Health Care
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Scientists Developing Latex Replacement That Self-Lubricates, Delivers Viagra and Feels Better Than Nothing At All
A group of scientists in Australia is developing a series of condoms which it claims could feel even better than wearing nothing at all.
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- Health Care
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