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05-Apr-18 Babylon, the British digital health start-up that uses AI to assess illness, has struck a deal with Chinese Internet giant Tencent to offer its technology on the group's hugely popular WeChat social messaging platform. [image: Demand Newspaper]
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16-Mar-18 Gimhae, Korea is among the 70 cities that have adopted a mobile health center system and local residents have been receptive to the new service, which consists of a smartphone app offering health checkups, medical analysis and counselling. [image: Yonhap]
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05-Mar-18 Cairo-based Medicobot offers a service that allows users on Facebook to pose a request to one of its 575 specialised physicians and receive an answer within one hour. The company received 6,000 medical inquiries in the first month. [image: Egyptian Streets]
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11-Feb-18 Estimates say that China's Tencent, owner of WeChat, has invested RMB20 bn (USD3.2 bn) in medical startups since 2014, when the Internet giant made its first medical startup investment in medical portal DXY for USD70 mn. [image: TechNode]
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08-Feb-18 From providing access to healthcare in rural and remote areas, to streamlining obsolete health data systems, connected care may be one solution to increase equity in developing economies, say executives at Philips. [image: Future Health Index]
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