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Digital doctors: China sees tech cure for healthcare woes
There's been a rise recently in digital healthcare, or eHealth, to bridge the chasm between China's developed health services in large cities and its grassroots rural care.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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After Winning Hult Prize, MBA Entrepreneurs Seek To Heal Indian Healthcare
Manish Ranjan led his business school team to victory in the Hult Prize 2014. Now, the MBA entrepreneur has grand plans to help fix India's healthcare system.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Verifying a Need: SimPrints wades into ‘identification crisis’ in health care, seeking global scale
SimPrints has developed a pocket-size fingerprint scanner that instantly links an individual’s fingerprint to his or her health records. The Bluetooth-enabled scanner allows health workers in the field in developing countries to make better decisions by providing immediate and reliable access to critical medical information.
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- Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Meet the Company That’s Bringing the LED Revolution to the Developing World
Yesterday three physicists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for creating blue-light LEDs, which makes the LED white lights we find everywhere possible.
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- Education, Health Care
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Ebola outbreak: Where are the mHealth apps?
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa and now the U.S. is surely among the most high-profile incidents wherein mobile health technologies could have proven their mettle.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Band-Aids Won’t Fix Ebola: Long-term solutions in resource-poor settings will require innovative technologies and strategies
Ebola can be contained and its mortality rate reduced in functional health systems that provide a basic standard of care, even in emergency conditions. Poor countries currently lack these systems, but they can be developed through innovative technologies and strategies.
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- Health Care
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Entrepreneur aims to eliminate blindness in Mexico
Poor physical health and poverty can go hand-in-hand. When those without money suffer from a disability, they either cannot afford to get the medical attention to get better or go deeper into poverty trying to become healthy. In Mexico, two million people suffer from cataracts and even more from other eye-related health issues, making it the second leading cause of disability in the country. Most of them are poor or working class people.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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Philips, PET to commercialise Wind-Up Fetal Heart Rate Monitor
Royal Philips has announced a partnership with South Africa based not-for-profit organization, PET (PowerFree Education Technology), to further develop, test and commercialise a Wind-up Doppler Ultrasound Fetal Heart Rate Monitor aimed at addressing the high rates of preventable infant mortality across Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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