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Exploring the digital impact in Northern Ireland’s health and social care system

CIO

The pandemic accelerated the urgency for reform in health and social care around the world, which strained resources to unprecedented levels. It all reduces the ability to arrive at a budget settlement that shifts resources into the health and social care space. So you can see how my job has had to react to all of those stimulants.”

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Pivoting in the pandemic, Citysocializer relaunches as a ‘Get Your Guide for virtual events’

TechCrunch

As many of us have seen, personal trainers, yoga teachers and similar types of freelance professionals have all had to shift to offering virtual sessions over Zoom and similar platforms. It’s now become a platform for virtual fitness classes, learning workshops and the like, with users in the U.K., Europe, the U.S.

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Fresha raises $100M for its beauty and wellness booking platform and marketplace

TechCrunch

Fresha — a multipurpose commerce tool for independent wellness and beauty businesses such as hair, nail and skin salons, yoga instructors and more, based first and foremost around a completely free subscription platform for those businesses to schedule bookings from customers — has picked up $100 million.

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Twine raises $3.3M to add networking features to virtual events

TechCrunch

To date, twine’s events customers have included names like Microsoft, Amazon, Forrester, and others, and the service is on track to do $1 million in bookings in 2021, the company says. And they saw the potential in online, which would sometimes deliver 4x or 5x the attendance of virtual, Coburn points out.

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Daily Crunch: Microsoft dumps Yammer and makes Viva Engage its preferred enterprise social platform

TechCrunch

Today, we bring you a great book recommendation from our very own Dominic-Midori: Long out of print since its original publishing in the 1980s, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the 20th century, and it’s supremely good news that it’s available again. Kirsten has more.

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mPharma, a telehealth pioneer out of Ghana, gets physical with 100 virtual centers across Africa

TechCrunch

One company that is planning to drive the wave of telemedicine across the continent, as the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, is mPharma , a Ghanaian health tech start-up that is set to open 100 virtual centers across seven markets in Africa over the next six months. This is what makes mPharma’s telemedicine unique,” Rockson told TechCrunch.

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PubNub raises $65M to build and run data streams for messaging, presence and other real-time aspects of ‘virtual spaces’

TechCrunch

“From the time we started PubNub the vision was what software is needed to power virtual spaces. . “From the time we started PubNub the vision was what software is needed to power virtual spaces. It says that customer bookings have grown 200% year-over-year in 2021.