News24 | No silver bullet for bridging SA’s healthcare divide, experts say
10 Sep
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News24 | No silver bullet for bridging SA’s healthcare divide, experts say

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Top Stories Tamfitronics South Africa's healthcare system is facing myriad challenges.Experts have put forward a range of practical solutions to address some of the country's pressing issues.Spotlight rounds up some of the proposed solutions to improve patient care, including the use of public-private partnerships.Closing the inequality gap and making trusted healthcare services accessible to the majority will require a whole systems overhaul.This was the underlying message of speakers at the recent Hospital Association of South Africa Conference, who tackled the question of pragmatic steps to address the divides and failings of the country's healthcare system.They put forward a range of solutions, models and case studies while highlighting the looming crises as more people fall through the cracks.Around 15% of people in South Africa are members of private...
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Eartheye Space raises $1.5 million
09 Sep
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Eartheye Space raises $1.5 million

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Eartheye Space calls itself the “Uber Eats” of Earth-observation data. Credit: Eartheye SpaceSAN FRANCISCO – Singapore startup Eartheye Space raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to expand its online satellite-tasking platform.Eartheye Space, founded in 2022, calls itself the “Uber Eats” of Earth-observation data. Uber Eats can deliver food from multiple restaurants and Eartheye Space “can combine any of the 475-plus satellites across all the sensor modalities,” Eartheye Space founder and CEO Shankar Sivaprakasam told SpaceNews. “You can task them together in the same workflow.”With the recent investment, Eartheye Space “will be expanding into Africa and the Middle East next, followed by the USA in 2025,” Sivaprakasam said.The latest funding also will help Eartheye Space gain access to additional data sources, expand its staff and continue training computer-vision and machine-learning algorithms.Assorted SensorsEartheye...
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