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November 13, 2020
Innovations in Healthcare Team in Africa
Our team just wrapped up a series of events in Kenya. The week started with a series of innovator site visits and workshops for all the innovators in the third Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD) cohort from the lakeside city of Kisumu to Nairobi, these discussions focused on many of the strategic issues our entrepreneurs are facing.
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November 13, 2020
MicroEnsure, Next Stop – Transforming Health Financing in Kenya
Could there be a more exciting time to step foot in Kenya? I couldn’t get that question out of my head as I fumbled through Nairobi’s bustling city streets, dodging matatus and street vendors on the first day of my summer internship.
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November 13, 2020
The Coming Caribbean Revolution in Healthcare Delivery
Just south of the no-longer forbidden isle of Cuba, over one of the deepest parts of the ocean in the world, sits a spit of land measuring barely twenty two miles long and four miles wide. World renown among divers for its coral landscapes and teeming underwater wildlife, the island is also the recent birthplace of Health City Cayman Islands (HCCI), an organization that could send ripples through the Western hemisphere’s healthcare marketplace.
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November 13, 2020
MicroClinic Technologies: Pioneering Privacy and Data Security for Electronic Health Information.
From the moment patients get into a hospital and give their personal information to nurses, to vitals being taken, to collecting prescriptions and getting lab results, patients leave a trail of their unique personal information all over a health facility.
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November 13, 2020
Interns Take On Projects Around the World
How much is it worth to a hospital to lower its readmissions rate? How do you build a patient privacy policy in the absence of any regulation or market demand telling you to? Is there a way to prepare a surgical theater more efficiently without compromising safety? These are just some of the challenges our interns took on this summer.
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November 13, 2020
Got a Problem? We’ve Got Students!
Duke University’s MBA program is currently looking for consulting project ideas for student teams to take on during the 2015-2016 academic year.
