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Power of the User: Lessons learned from mHealth usability testing and tips for your innovation
The Institute for Reproductive Health, working with iHub, has been doing research on its family planning products, focusing on the human element and the user experience. They compiled some lessons learned and tips for integrating usability testing to improve technology.
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This Antiseptic Was Brought to You By …: USAID guide mimics some market practices to speed ‘bench to bedside’
When it comes to global health, “people are good at inventing things but not always good at reaching scale,” according to David Milestone, senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact. That’s why USAID developed “IDEA to IMPACT: A Guide to Introduction and Scale of Global Health Innovations,” which officially debuted on Monday.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Pfizer, Manipal Hospitals & others join hands to accelerate health tech startups in India
A group of health care entities, including Manipal Hospitals and Narayana Health, have gotten together with an investor to provide up to $1.6 million in grants and investments to early-stage startups that seek to enhance access to affordable technology-driven health care products and services for low-income masses in India.
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- South Asia
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Promising Practices: CHMI highlights 71 pro-poor innovations improving health care around the world
The Center for Health Market Innovations has released its annual report, "Highlights: Findings From 2014," which identifies health care programs and policies, documents and analyzes promising practices, and spotlights programs with potential for scale up and adaptation within and across borders.
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4 Innovations On mHealth and POC Devices
There has been much talk about innovations in mobile health technologies among the international aid community in recent years. But now there’s a new kid on the block.
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India Needs Cutting-Edge Technology to Become Global Healthcare Destination
Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, Founder, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group, speaks about NCDs, healthcare challenges and solutions in a conversation with Shivani Arora.
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Three Questions with David Aylward, Senior Advisor on Global Health and Technology at Ashoka
Food Tank, in partnership with The George Washington University, is hosting the 1st Annual Food Tank Summit in Washington D.C. on January 21-22, 2015.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Spending on Medical Research Falls in U.S. While Growing Globally
Spending on medical research is waning in the United States, and this trend could have dire consequences for patients, physicians and the health care industry as a whole, a new analysis reveals.
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- Education, Health Care
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