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Africa’s Tech Edge

Dayo Olopade | The Atlantic | April 16, 2014

How the continent's many obstacles, from widespread poverty to failed states, allowed African entrepreneurs to beat the West at reinventing money for the mobile age

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Health IT Vendors Hiding the Onions from Interop and Open Platforms

By Ewan Davis | April 4, 2016

Many existing vendors recognize the need to move open standards, open data and open interfaces (APIs) but while some are moving in the right direction, they are not there yet Others drag their feet knowing their current success relies on existing proprietary solutions, customer lock and their pseudo-ownership of customer data. Getting to the tipping point at which open platforms can really take off is going to require new players challenging the status quo and a willingness from the health and care community to help them successfully engage.

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The Robots Are Coming...to Healthcare!

By Kim Bellard | June 5, 2017

Ready or not, there are robots in your future.  And some of them will be for health care. There has been growing concern that the rise of robots, along with artificial intelligence (AI), will create huge impacts on jobs.  Within the last few months both McKinsey and PwC have issued white papers on the topic.  The former found that nearly half of jobs have the potential to be automated (although most not totally), while the latter expects 38% of U.S. jobs at at high risk of automation within 20 years. Health care is not high on most lists of sectors whose jobs are soonest to be heavily impacted by robots, but it is on the list -- and it will happen...

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uBiome CEO Dr. Jessica Richman to Deliver Opening Keynote at American Medical Informatics Association Symposium

Press Release | uBiome | November 11, 2016

Jessica Richman, PhD, co-founder and CEO of the leading microbial genomics company, uBiome, will present the opening keynote address at the 2016 American Medical Informatics Association’s (AMIA) Annual Symposium, to be held in Chicago from November 12 - 16. The AMIA and its members aim to transform healthcare through trusted science, education, and practice in biomedical and health informatics. Jessica Richman, PhD, will join two other keynote speakers at the AMIA Symposium – Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, Director of the NIH National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland and Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD, Technical Fellow and Director of the Microsoft Research Lab in Redmond...

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World's First Mobile App For Complete Family Health Care Premieres In Austin

Press Release | Medici | October 17, 2016

Medici, an Austin-based company with leadership from Johns Hopkins, Amazon, eBay, McKinsey, KPMG and others officially launches its health care service. Medici allows patients to securely text with their own doctor, vet, therapist and more through a HIPAA-compliant app. Offered first this week in Austin, Medici plans to extend the service to all of Texas this month and then release it nationally. Medici is safer and more compliant with the laws of states like Texas that have wrestled with services offering treatment with no established doctor-patient relationship, says Medici Founder and CEO Clinton Phillips...

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