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Medtronic and partners are using mobile tech to screen thousands in India for ear infections
In collaboration with a mobile health startup, a design firm and local health clinics, Medtronic is orchestrating a program aimed at improving diagnosis and treatment of ear infections and hearing loss in India, meanwhile supporting its ENT business there.
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- Environment, Health Care, Technology
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Efficiency Is Noble: Study tour, forum focus on promising innovations in health care
IPIHD held its first study tour in India last October in order to bring health system leaders face to face with health care innovators. Three of those innovators, plus 27 more creative firms, will be represented at the third annual IPIHD Forum in Washington, D.C., on April 6.
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- Environment, Health Care
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What Is Scale? Hint: Social Enterprises Don’t Have To Be Huge To Reach It
A couple of years ago, I was working on a strategic planning project for a start-up that got hung up on the idea of “scale.” The founders were thinking globally, but meeting locally – in a windowless conference room, with lousy coffee, a couple of laptops, and no employees. We made of lot of lists, blew through a lot of Powerpoint, did many meetings. The ideas were fantastic, the potential market of those who needed the proposed services were in the tens of millions, and the business plan was sleek. But they couldn’t start small enough to prove the model. It had to be national right away, because the idea was so strong.
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A Call to Action for Greater Co-Creation Between Social and Business: Collaborative competition aims to forge relationships between pioneers in this space
We live in a world of harsh social and environmental challenges. No player - whether government, social entrepreneur, non-profit or business - can address them alone. That’s why Ashoka and partners have launched an online collaborative competition called Social & Business Co-Creation: collaboration for impact. They are accepting entries until April 10.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Huge Opportunities Await Indian Health Investors in Africa
In 2012, Africa accounted for almost a quarter of India's drug exports.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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NexThought Monday – China’s Social Enterprise Movement Set to Blast Off: The country is urging a bigger role for social enterprise in society and the economy
China is urging a bigger role for social enterprise in society and the economy. In response, socially-minded businesses are taking off. Given China’s energy and strong entrepreneurial spirit, as the social enterprise movement grows and flourishes, the world’s second largest economy could soon be poised to make a significant global impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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- housing, scale, social enterprise
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New ITU standard enables health data exchange
Following calls for increased global coordination of standards enabling e-health, ITU has offered first stage approval to an important specification enabling an exchange of multimedia health data between a health provider, a controlling function and patient.
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- Health Care
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Investing In Women: An inside look at Merck’s $3 million commitment to India’s largest maternity care franchise
Merck for Mothers Executive Director Dr. Priya Agrawal explains why her organization is investing $3 million in the scale-up of MerryGold Health Network: "Because India has more maternal deaths than any country in the world."
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- Environment, Health Care
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- scale