Healthcare / 15 posts found
Predicting the next epidemic with big data
Big Data and Machine Learning predict the next major epidemic months in advance. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Using competitive advantages of blindness to create opportunity
Wonderful business model from Germany. Discovering Hands creates employment opportunities for blind women using their well developed sensory skills to look for breast cancer. Higher detection rates, and turning the effects of visual impairment into a strength. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Digital Healthcare Startup Curofy is an Online Community for Doctors
Great to see an app for doctors to share knowledge and diagnoses coming out of India. No spam, no ads, just a doctors’ community helping each other. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Kiwi company named APAC’s Best Startup for Social Impact
Company that allows retina examination using iPhones scoops Best Startup for Social Impact. “The company says it aims to prevent blindness in regions where better eyesight care is needed, with 80% of visual impairment issues and blindness preventable and 90% occurring in developing or low income areas.” CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Detecting Lung Disease at a Lower Coat and With Lower Radiation
KA Imaging has developed a digital X-ray imager that is inexpensive (low infrastructure cost, minimal specialised staff) and can be used in mobile clinics. Trials coming in Zambia. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
4 Indian companies with fighting cancer as their business model
These 4 Indian companies have built their business models on fighting cancer. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Digital Health Startup Cuts Premiums And Improves Results
Great to see commercial businesses built on the basis of doing good. Provata Health uses digital evidence-based methods to improve the unimpressive performance of workplace health schemes. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Internet of Things Narrows Gap Between Data and Contribution
The excitement about the Internet of Things is rarely more worthwhile than when it delivers real human contribution, as in these case studies in agriculture and medicine. Supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Emergency Doctor-Finding App Wins More Awards
MUrgency is a great little startup that has an app which alerts a local doctor in case of emergencies. It has scooped multiple awards, including at SXSW 2016, for its potential life-saving app. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
How serendipity rescued a company that saved over 200,000 babies’ lives
Embrace innovations has created an incubator for babies that costs around 1% of the standard price, and runs where electricity is not reliable. Great model? Yes, but even after saving over 200,000 babies’ lives, it nearly went under. Wonderful tale of how serendipity rescued it. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE