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Rwanda: How Rwanda Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Healthcare
African Development Bank (AfDB), 6 October 2022
Drug stock-outs and shortage of medical equipment in health facilities in Rwanda are becoming a thing of the past, thanks to an innovation that is addressing procurement… Read more »
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WHO, 28 June 2021
Growing use of AI for health presents governments, providers, and communities with opportunities and challenges Read more »
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Ethiopia: Ai's Potential to Identify Plant, Animal Disease Types, Suggest Remedies
Ethiopian Herald, 30 April 2021
Scientists engaged in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) say it is one of the branches of computer science concerned with building smart machines capable of performing tasks… Read more »
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Mauritius: "Winning against cancer is one of the holy grails of medical research"
L'Express, 18 April 2021
A major breakthrough in cancer diagnosis research using Artificial Intelligence makes the headlines of several international publications. At the heart of it is a compatriot… Read more »
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South Africa: Deep Medicine - Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Face of Healthcare, Daily
Daily Maverick, 7 December 2020
Proponents have long argued that the Fourth Industrial Revolution could be the key to finding solutions to some of our most deep-seated medical problems. The unprecedented… Read more »
How Rwanda Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Healthcare
Viebeg Technologies, a venture capital-backed Health Tech company, is helping to expand access to affordable health care in Central and East Africa by aiding healthcare facilities in procuring supplies in real-time. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) to manage supply chain processes (from shipping to warehousing, distribution and inventory management) to ensure that healthcare facilities have the precise medical supplies in stock.
This marks the latest in Rwanda's utilisation of machine learning in the healthcare industry and follows startup Insightiv's efforts of using AI Covid-19 diganosis testing.
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Rwanda and Nigeria are two African nations that have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to curb the Covid-19 pandemic. This Read more »
Alex Musyoka, VIEBEG Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer (centre), explaining to a customer the importance of being a data-driven healthcare provider.
