South Africa’s digital healthcare shift: Progress, challenges ahead
The rapid advancement of technology has ushered in a new era of digitised healthcare systems, reshaping how nations deliver medical services. This transformation is not...
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Lagos Advances AI and Digital Health Infrastructure
Lagos State is advancing plans to integrate artificial intelligence (AI), digital health infrastructure and data-driven systems into healthcare delivery, with the goal of improving health...
Rwanda Introduces AI Telemedicine for Safer Births
Rwanda’s Ministry of Health has launched an AI-powered telemedicine system aimed at reducing maternal and newborn deaths while improving the quality of healthcare services. The...
How Technology is Transforming Healthcare in Africa
Technology transforming healthcare in Africa is no longer limited to video calls between doctors and patients. Digital tools are beginning to influence almost every stage...
Bill Gates Pushes Rapid Artificial Intelligence Rollout in Rwanda
Billionaire Bill Gates tours Rwanda to explore digital health innovations, urging African nations to deploy artificial intelligence rapidly to close the global health gap. American...
WHO joins the Open Health Stack Software Foundation
Digital health systems in many countries have grown in a fragmented way. One programme for immunization, another for HIV, another for maternal health, each built...
Ghana’s First Precision Medicine Company Completes
Africa’s Only Laboratory to Hold Triple ISO Accreditation from A2LA (the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation)ISO 15189:2022 (Cert. No. 6990.01) | ISO 20387:2018 (Cert. No....
African Union Names Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed Champion for AI
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been appointed African Union Champion for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health, in recognition of his leadership and Ethiopia’s expanding...
Kenya accelerates digital health superhighway through AI
Kenya is accelerating efforts to transform its healthcare system through strategic partnerships aimed at strengthening its Digital Health Superhighway and scaling the use of artificial...
AI in MENA healthcare is not a single story
In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the race to adopt meaningful artificial intelligence in healthcare is on, but certainly not through a single...