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22-Sep-19 China's Ping An Technology is helping healthcare authorities in Chongqing and Shenzhen predict flu outbreaks ahead of time with accuracy rates of over 90 percent. It is also looking at extending its forecasting capabilities into other diseases. [image: Handout]
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12-Jun-19 Waterdrop, a Chinese online insurance platform backed by Tencent, has raised more than a billion yuan (USD145 million) in funding led by PE firm Boyu Capital. Waterdrop started as a healthcare crowdfunding platform before branching into online insurance sales. [image: AP Photo / Mark Schiefelbein]
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22-Apr-19 Egypt will begin a rollout of its new comprehensive health insurance system in July 2019, to be rolled out over a 15-year period. the World Bank pledged USD530 million to a five-year initiative aimed at improving healthcare standards. [image: Reuters / Mohamed Abd El Ghany]
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21-Feb-19 After weathering storms of bad loans and profitability, Axis Bank has set its sights on an insurance business acquisition within a year, according to CEO Amitabh Chaudhry. Peers ICICI and HDFC already have life- and non-life insurance operations. [image: Business Today]
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20-Jan-19 Bupa has acquired Turkish company Acıbadem Sigorta, a specialist health insurance provider with both corporate and individual customers, headquartered in Istanbul, with over 500 employees, covering 600,000 customers and gross written premiums of TRY913 mn (USD173 mn). [image: Bupa Newsroom]
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