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YC-backed Remedial Health raises $1 million pre-seed to digitize pharmacies in Nigeria

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Remedial Health has secured $1 million in pre-seed funding to digitize pharmacies and stem the supply of fake and substandard pharmaceutical products, starting with Nigeria before expanding to the rest of Africa. The platform also stores patients’ medical records and supports reporting and accounting. Image Credits: Remedial Health.

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10 Key Trends of Digital Transformation in Healthcare in 2022

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Clinics that use cutting-edge technology will continue to thrive as intelligent systems evolve. Modern technical advancements in healthcare have made it possible to quickly handle critical medical data, medical records, pharmaceutical orders, and other data.

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IT leaders: check out how 2D barcodes and RFID are reinventing retail

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The retail landscape has undergone massive shifts in recent years to adopt self-checkout systems. Brands and retailers have been working diligently to create and roll-out standardized 2D barcodes on product packaging that’ll work seamlessly at check-out registers. But is this the beginning of the end for self-checkouts?

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NLP helps Eli Lilly work at a global scale

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With more than 30,000 employees spread across more than 60 affiliate locations and 14 manufacturing sites around the world, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly operates at a truly global scale. Once improved, we had to work diligently to ramp up our [organizational change management] efforts to gain confidence in the tool.”.

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Tive, a startup developing supply chain visibility tools, raises $54M

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According to a 2020 Statista survey , 41% of executives in the automotive and transportation industry alone said their company lost $50 to $100 million due to supply chain issues, a figure which has likely climbed higher since. But according to Komoni, most tracking is done manually via loose systems of emails, spreadsheets and phone calls.

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AARP Innovation Labs takes a holistic approach to age-tech at CES

TechCrunch

A tabletop console gaming system, Gameboard , also lets family members enjoy fun time, instead of just chat time, with one another. Of course, improving healthcare and the delivery of health services for older adults is extremely important, especially in the United States with its fragmented healthcare system.

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AgBiome lands $166M for safer crop protection technology

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The microbes already discovered are used by humans for things like pharmaceuticals, food and agriculture. Due to its safer formula, Howler can be used as the last spray in the program, and its differentiator is a shorter re-entry period — farmers can spray in the morning and be able to go back out in the field in the afternoon.