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Revolutionary health wallet app targets low income patients

M-Tiba, a ‘mobile health wallet’ aimed at low-income patients to spend on healthcare, is launching in Kenya. Created by PharmAccess Foundation and CarePay, it works in partnership with Safaricom, the largest mobile operator in the country with 25.1m users and 1,800 public and private healthcare services providers. We look at its possible impacts.
January 14, 2016

Interview: Amit Thakker, founder, Kenya Healthcare Federation and Avenue Healthcare

With the East African region expected to grow GDP 6.7% in 2016, according to the African Development Bank, it is no wonder foreign investors are pouring in. An IFC report from 2007 estimated 60% of health financing is from private sources and 50% of health expenditure is spent on private providers. The HMO model, in particular, is attracting a growing middle class.
January 8, 2016

Rwanda to become medical tourism hub

Twenty years after the genocide that killed 800,000, Rwanda has managed to create a multi-tiered efficient healthcare system, building capacity from the inside. With 95% over the population covered through universal health insurance and an established network of operators, Rwanda now wants to attract more foreign investors –and medical tourists.
October 30, 2015

Interview: Terri Bresenham, CEO, GE Sustainable Healthcare Solutions

Terri Bresenham has just been appointed CEO for GE Sustainable Healthcare Solutions, the new division which covers all sales to India, South Asia, Africa and South East Asia. We talk to her about how she sees these markets developing, GE plans to invest $300m and how GE is partnering with the private sector and payors.
October 2, 2015

Kenya adopts biometric identity as it rolls out universal health cover

Kenya is following Ghana in adopting a biometric fraud system offered by Genkey, a biometric identity management, through the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). The country’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, pledged 25m Kenyans would be covered by the end of 2015. But how effective is biometric identity in stopping healthcare fraud?
September 11, 2015

Interview: Dr Peter Cole, managing partner at Lancet Laboratories

South African diagnostic lab group Lancet is consolidating the African lab market, expanding into 12 countries in 12 years. We speak to managing partner, Dr Peter Cole, about the South African healthcare services market generally, the different African markets and the challenge posed by European and Indian competitors.
June 9, 2015

Israeli POCT brings cancer screening to a mobile phone

Israeli point-of-care testing (POCT) start up MobileODT uses a mobile phone and attachable scope to screen and detect cervical cancer. CEO and Co-founder Ariel Beery claims it had sales of $60,000 since April 2015 and believes it can become a $1bn business.
May 27, 2015

Telefónica brings subscription mobile health services to two million across Latin America

Healthcare Nova can reveal that mobile phone giant Telefónica is rolling out its mobile health services to all its Latin American countries over the next two months. Launched in Brazil in 2012 it now has 2m customers there. It is also about to turn Saluspot, a platform to message doctors and book appointments, into a subscription service. Mobile health services include 24/7 call centres and SMS health tips and advice.
May 27, 2015
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