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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. We currently have five centers open. doctors for every 10,000 people.

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Wefight answers questions about chronic illness with its virtual assistant

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They’re all based on the same virtual assistant called Vik. When it comes to the business model, Wefight works with pharmaceutical companies to finance new apps. It’s a convoluted sales strategy for pharmaceutical companies. The startup recently raised a $11.6 Wefight has developed a different app for each chronic illness.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

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Nvidia’s transformation from an accelerator of video games to an enabler of artificial intelligence (AI) and the industrial metaverse didn’t happen overnight—but the leap in its stock market value to over a trillion dollars did. The resulting imagery can be used for marketing or collaborating on new designs and manufacturing processes.

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mPharma raises $35million in round participated by Tinder co-founder’s JAM fund, Bharti executive

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mPharma plans to grow its community ( Mutti ) pharmacies across eight markets in Africa to be the first point of care for patients. It is also rolling out an e-commerce platform for pharmaceuticals. “We We are hiring over 100 engineers to build all our technology in-house and this includes a massive data infrastructure we are creating.

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Gen AI: Should you build or buy?

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Foundry’s 2023 AI Priorities study found interest in a broad range of gen AI use cases, including chatbots and virtual assistants (56%), content generation (55%), industry-specific applications (48%), data augmentation (46%), and personalized recommendations (39%). The case for building Enthusiasm for AI is now universal among IT leaders.

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Medable reaches $2.1B valuation as Tiger, Blackstone, GSR pump new capital into clinical trials management company

TechCrunch

Indeed, part of what the company is going after is a piece of the global virtual clinical trials market, which is forecasted to reach $11.5 Medable has proven it is in a strong position to win outsized market share. It is a competitive market, but Medable is breaking away from the pack.”. billion by 2028.

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10 Key Trends of Digital Transformation in Healthcare in 2022

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Modern technical advancements in healthcare have made it possible to quickly handle critical medical data, medical records, pharmaceutical orders, and other data. In addition, pharmaceutical businesses can generate more effective drugs and improve medical research and experimentation using machine learning.