The availability of mobile technology, acceleration of computing power, and advances in analytic techniques in recent years have boosted optimism in the quest to help the 3.6 billion or more people worldwide who lack access to essential health services. The central question is how we create learning systems and use technology to harness medical knowledge …
Category: Health
We’ve got this
Big Data, HealthI wake up every morning passionate about the work I get to contribute to, work that is inspired by my formative experience in the health care system. For a numbers guy like myself, there has never been a better time to be in digital health. We are just at the beginning of an incredible journey …
Unlocking the secret of success in public health systems
Africa, Broadreach, HealthBy Louise Allen, BroadReach: Vice President, Client Success Louise is responsible for formulating and delivering the solutions that solve our clients’ critical problems, where people, data and expertise intersect. She brings more than two decades of healthcare experience, in both the public and private sectors, and is deeply committed to improving health outcomes in under-served …
Testing new approaches to simplify patients’ access to HIV treatment
Africa, Analytics, Health, USAIDDr Dvora Joseph Davey has more than two decades of experience in the development, management and evaluation of HIV prevention and treatment programs in Africa. She presented a research poster titled “Uptake of HIV differentiated care models for patients on antiretroviral therapy in South Africa” at the 22nd Annual International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam. Conferences …
A new face of HIV
Health, Shared ValueWe need a new face of HIV. Faces that are healthy, happy and thriving. Faces that give people hope and encouragement. Faces we can look to in our darkest hour and see them living – not dying. I want to be one of those faces. I want to inspire people to live their best lives …
Q&A with Microsoft EVP Worldwide Commercial Business, Judson Althoff
Big Data, Disruptive technology, Emerging economies, Health, Sustainable DevelopmentDevelopment budgets in jeopardy — time to embrace digital transformation Public and private organizations working in emerging markets face intense and unrelenting pressure to radically boost efficiency and create sustainable outcomes as public funding, previously earmarked for development, declines. Judson Althoff, executive vice president of worldwide commercial business at Microsoft, believes that digital technology could play …
Healthy citizens, healthy economies
Africa, Big Data, Broadreach, Disruptive technology, Health, Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainable Development5 ways to leverage technology for inclusive growth Inclusive growth for all citizens of the African continent is the rallying point for the 2017 World Economic Forum on Africa. To that end, we challenge leaders convening in Durban, South Africa, to embrace the multi-faceted definition of human health captured in the opening principle of the constitution …
Frost & Sullivan Healthcare Data Analytics Best-Practices Report — Free Download
Africa, Analytics, Big Data, HealthBroadReach Honored with 2016 Visionary Innovation Leadership Award We are proud to receive the 2016 Visionary Innovation Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan and to be able to offer you a free download of their Healthcare Data Analytics Best-Practices Report. After a thorough analysis of the competitive healthcare data analytics market, Frost & Sullivan credits …
2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that reduce mortality of world’s poorest populations
Health, Malaria, Sustainable Development, UncategorizedI am thrilled that three scientists who have focused on the world’s most devastating parasitic diseases — Elephantiasis, River Blindness and Malaria —will share the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine. These debilitating diseases affect hundreds of millions of people annually, overwhelmingly citizens of the developing world. The press release issued by the Nobel Prize elaborates …