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Redefining Innovation: Four things I learned at PATH
An associate professor at Stanford spent two years as the global program leader of PATH’s Technology Solutions Program, and says the experience helped redefine what innovation means to him.
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- Health Care
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Pocket-Sized Fingerprint Scanner Could Solve Healthcare Bottleneck
British postgraduate students have devised a pocket-sized fingerprint scanner designed to help patients in the developing world get improved access to healthcare.
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- Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Why You Should Root for a Robot to Take Your Doctor’s Job
You don’t have to look far to find concerns about how technology will steal our jobs. It’s been widely noticed that automation is making machines more powerful and shortening the list of current jobs that only a human can do.
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- Health Care, Technology
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NCDs Threatening Health Insurance: Innovations, partnerships offer ways to mitigate the impact
Non-communicable diseases have become the leading cause of death and disability worldwide?, carrying immense implications for insurance programs. However, ?there are opportunities? for public and private insurers to create and expand disease detection and management systems to mitigate the incidence and effect of NCDs.
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New App for Managing HIV Treatment Failure
A health informatics specialist in Rwanda has developed a computer-based application to help clinicians reduce medical errors in managing HIV treatment failure.
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- Health Care, Technology
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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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