Optimising mobile apps for healthcare
15 April 2024
Galen Murdock, CEO and co-founder, ShareMy.Health
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Optimizing health care with mobile applications and services offers huge benefits to professionals and patients. But problems with internet connectivity can blunt the effectiveness of mobile health solutions in communities and rural areas.
In developing nations in Africa and Asia, where mobile infrastructure can vary wildly in quality, connectivity issues can have devastating impacts on health care. And yet, these challenges can be overcome, maximising the positive health outcomes from seamless and accurate data sharing over wireless networks.
Find out more CMC Networks supports Cerba Lancet Africa with ehealth
13 February 2024
CMC Networks has partnered with Cerba Lancet Africa, the leading force in local clinical pathology and medical diagnosis in Africa, to boost healthcare across the continent.
The partnership supports digital health innovation with a combination of solutions spanning software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN), Microsoft Azure Peering Service (MAPS) and zero-trust security.
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Niger seeks remote internet provider for education and health
03 August 2023
The Nigerien government, through the National Information Society Agency (ANSI), is seeking partners to provide high-speed internet to 1,000 schools and 300 health huts across the country. An international call for tenders will close on 22 August.
The selected service providers will provide indoor and outdoor WIFI, a user management platform, a content management platform, energy and a monitoring platform in 22 high schools, 268 secondary education complexes (CES), 401 colleges General Education (CEG) and 309 primary schools across the country’s eight regions of Agadez, Diffa, Dosso, Maradi, Niamey, Tahoua, Tillaberi and Zinder.
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Tyme Group – owner of digital bank ‘Tyme Bank’ - has secured $77.8 million in a pre-series C capital raise, backed by new international investors.
Fresh funds were raised by Tyme’s existing shareholders, along with investment from two new shareholders – Norrsken22, an Africa-focused tech growth fund, and Blue Earth Capital (Blue Earth), an independent global impact investment firm. The funds are intended to further operations in South Africa and the Philippines, for future expansion in southeast Asia, and a partial share buyback.
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