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Airtel Uganda holds health camp in Kisoro district
Airtel Uganda staff members in partnership with Hind’s Feet Project volunteers and other organizations offered treatment to the sick residents and equipped them with sufficient and relevant information to make proper health decisions at Nyakabaya Primary School in Nyarusiza. Neither…
Painless cancer treatment available in South Africa
The Life Healthcare Group, one of South Africa’s leading hospital groups, brings sophisticated radiation cancer technology to cancer patients in the Gauteng region, with the opening of the Oncology Centre at Life Eugene Marais Hospital, extending Life Healthcare’s oncology footprint…
African hospitals embrace Artificial Intelligence
Sophia Genetics a health technology company unveiled the list of African hospitals that have started integrating SOPHiA Artificial Intelligence into their workflow at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) in Phoenix. African…
IDx and IBM Watson Health forge alliance for Eye Health
IBM Watson Health and IDx, LLC announced a five-year strategic alliance to advance eye health through cognitive computing applications. The alliance aims to help primary care providers, hospitals, health systems, and integrated delivery networks deliver value-based care to patients with…
Africa Innovation Challenge Winners Announced
Johnson & Johnson has today named the winners of the first Africa Innovation Challenge at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress. The initiative, which received nearly 500 submissions from innovators and entrepreneurs across the continent, sought the best ideas for new, sustainable…
New App to digitise and optomise services in Côte d’Ivoire
The Red Cross Society of Côte d’Ivoire (RCSCI) has announced today, the official launch of its new RCSCI Mobile Application. The App will help the Red Cross better fulfill their mission to improve the living conditions of vulnerable people across…
Boehringer Ingelheim to combat SA’s stroke pandemic
In 2014, over 23 000 South Africans lost their lives due to a stroke, with one person diagnosed every six minutes. Despite the estimated 132 000 strokes a year occurring in South Africa, stroke care is inadequate for current patient…
SA healthcare braces to take on risk
The security risks facing the healthcare sector have never before been so broad or so complex, reports Fortinet. “Thanks to digitisation across the sector, the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables, and the increasing sophistication of cyber criminals,…
Vodacom, Kaduna State partner to launch ICT development initiative in Nigeria
Vodacom has announced that they will be working with Kaduna State in Nigeria to launch an ICT for development initiative. The project will support mass service delivery in healthcare, education and agriculture through the deployment of tailored ICT solutions to promote…
EXASOL, PATH to lead fight against malaria in Zambia
EXASOL, a high-performance in-memory analytic database developer, and PATH, an international nonprofit organization and global leader in health and innovation, today announced a partnership to support the Zambian government’s ambitious campaign to eliminate malaria by 2020. “Data analytics is often…
First of its kind SAP cloud solution for cervical cancer screening
SAP’s Design and Co-Innovation Center together with Heidelberg University Hospital have developed a digitized screening test. The cancer screening test combines applied medical research with the power of innovative SAP cloud technology in a bid to improve quality of life…
Eltek to provide solar energy for hospitals in Zimbabwe
Eltek announced a contract with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to provide complete photo voltaic solar solutions for 104 hospitals in Zimbabwe. Eltek will provide full delivery, installation, service and monitoring of the solar systems which use Eltek’s breakthrough Rectiverter…
Why tech holds the key to unleashing the value of genomics
The health sector is on the cusp of a step change that will see patients benefit from treatment that is more focused on the individual than ever before. Through the better use of data and advances in analytics, precision healthcare…
Mozambique: Kamaleon brings internet access to remote areas
Mozambican technology startup company Kamaleon is bringing Internet access to remote rural areas through a platform called “Community Tablet ” (“Tablet Comunitário”). The Community Tablet is an innovative and engaging way of getting educational messages across various communities. Since 92.9%…
Addressing South Africa’s healthcare accessibility issues through technological innovation
We so often hear stories of the hardships associated with accessibility to high quality healthcare, but for many the nearest doctor, let alone specialist, can be many hours away. South Africa’s Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi recently pointed out that universal…
Lesotho: How mobile technologies are saving thousands
The Vodafone Foundation announced a mobile-based HIV programme in Lesotho, where an estimated 23% of the population is HIV positive, many of whom live in extreme poverty in remote rural communities separated by mountainous terrain with minimal infrastructure. The Vodafone…
