
Stopping antimicrobial resistance would cost just USD...
Category: News, Publications | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesSuperbug infections could cost the lives of around 2.4 million people in Europe, North America and Australia over the next 30 years...

Jaipur Foot: One Of The Most Technologically-Advanced...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesA Forbes article discusses how Jaipur Foot, a non-profit social enterprise that provides artificial limbs to physically challenged people living below the...

Where Innovation’s A Matter Of Life And...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesAravind Eye Care Systems in India has been sighted as an important example of “reverse innovation” in which products and service innovations...

Embrace Warms Up Premature Babies At The...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesEmbrace is a new cost-effective infant warmer, which targets bottom-of-the-pyramid families that have premature babies or those with low birth weights. The...

The B-Town Doctors: Big Hospitals In Small...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesTier II Indian towns and cities are seeing expanding healthcare networks as hospital chains increasingly find the right balance between technology, cost...

Healthcare Technology And News: New Pan India...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and Supplieshandygo Technologies and Uninor have developed and recently launched “Wellness World,” a health tool for customers throughout India, providing health advice via...

Illiterate, They Perform Root Canal Operation
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesTwo Italian dentists recently leveraged Indian NGO Barefoot College in efforts to train low-income women on how to perform dental procedures such...

Healthpoint India Picks Up Sankalp Award, Investment
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesDuring Intellecap’s annual Sankalp conference, Healthpoint Services won the award for Emerging Ventures in the health, water, or sanitation. Healthpoint focuses on...

Revolutionising Healthcare For The Poor
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesAn Indian doctor trained in the UK is planning to open a 300-bed low-cost, high-quality heart hospital in South Indian state Karnataka...

Student Entrepreneurs Compete At HBS
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesSANA Care, a social enterprise that enables medical service providers to diagnose and treat cardiovascular conditions in patients in rural India through...

GE Health-Embrace To Distribute Infant Warmer In...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesIn another move to bring essential healthcare products to low-income communities in India, GE Healthcare will soon launch a low-cost ‘infant-warmer’ in...

Healthcare As A Social Business
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesSwiss pharmaceutical company Novartis continues to promote Arogya Parivar, a rural Indian healthcare business, which launched in 2007. Having been rolled out...

Bill & Mel Chip In To Better...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $23 million to an international health agency, which seeks to reduce the risk of...

Better Living Through Information
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesIn a NextBillion series on healthcare solutions for the BOP, Indian-American Nandu Madhava, discusses mDhil, an organization he established to create better...

Technology To The People! Taking Telemedicine To...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesA greater number of rural Indians are able to access low-cost, high-quality healthcare services through the growth of telemedicine services across India....

From No Doctors To E-Doctors In Rural...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesHealthpoint Services, a for-profit start-up company in India has leveraged the country’s expanding mobile and internet infrastructure to establish a network of...

DHFL Launches Aadhar Housing Finance
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesIndian Housing Financing Corporation (DHFL) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have recently launched Aadhar Housing Finance (P) Ltd. to expand into...

Esther Duflo Bribes India’s Poor To Health
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesThrough her work at MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, economist Esther Duflo runs randomized, controlled trials to test poverty solutions....

Internet Kiosks Help Reduce Infant Mortality Rates...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesA recent study showed that between 2004 and 2009, Indian villages with internet kiosks that provided information on prenatal and postnatal care...

Forbes Magazine Names Dr. Jordan Kassalow To...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesJordan Kassalow, the founder and CEO of VisionSpring, was recently named as one of the top 30 social entrepreneurs worldwide. VisionSpring was...

Med Device Makers Eye Bottom Of Pyramid
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesWith the medical device industry estimated to be worth $2.75 billion and expected to grow to $14 billion by 2020, an increasing...

Integrated Health And Microfinance In India: Harnessing...
Category: Reports | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesThe idea for this report grew out of a meeting of leaders of the microfinance and health communities held in Ahmedabad, India...

Selling Water, Health Care In The Developing...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesNPR profiles Healthpoint Services, an Indian company seeking to provide adequate and quality drinking water and healthcare services to rural populations globally....

What’s The Good Word? – It’s Research...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesA useful technology may be able to help rural health workers in India with more efficiently recording health data. A digital pen...

Three Decades In The Making, How The...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesThe second of a two-part series by Next Billion on the Aravind Eye Care System discusses how the organization’s culture of service...

Where Free, Profitable, Impact And Scale Intersect:...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesIn the first of a two-part blog on the growth of the Aravind Eye Care System, NextBillion discusses how the eye-care clinic...

Medtronic Foundation Invests $6 Million Into Diabetes...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Health Services and SuppliesThe Medtronic Foundation is to invest $6 million of venture philanthropy to accelerate quality care and management of diabetes and heart disease...