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Founder of REME-D, Salma Tammam, on redefining healthcare in the Middle East and Africa
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Founder of REME-D, Salma Tammam, on redefining healthcare in the Middle East and Africa

Salma Tamman, the founder of REME-D., a deep-tech company that is redefining healthcare through innovation in accessible and affordable disease testing. Salma is a passionate scientist and entrepreneur dedicated to developing innovative healthcare solutions in developing countries. After earning her PhD in nanomedicine, she founded Reme-D in 2022, which develops

Reimagining Women's Health: Moving Beyond Pink Ribbons
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Reimagining Women's Health: Moving Beyond Pink Ribbons

follow us on spotify   Welcome to another edition of the LEAP:IN podcast series. Today’s focus is on Women’s Health, and more specifically Reimagining Women’s Health and Moving Beyond Pink Ribbons. We are thrilled to be joined by Reenita Das, Partner and Senior Vice President, Healthcare and

How doctors are comforting AI patients
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How doctors are comforting AI patients

Welcome to the 222 new techies who have joined us since last Friday. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Dr. Istvan Petak, MD, PhD (Founder and

At a glance: The AI revolution in healthcare
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At a glance: The AI revolution in healthcare

AI is changing the way physicians treat patients, speeding up pathology detection and treatment times, and offering more choices for patients, doctors, and healthcare operators. In 2021, a study by health insurer Optum found that 85% of the healthcare executives they surveyed already had an AI strategy. The global AI

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Going beyond: Use tech to build a society that works
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Going beyond: Use tech to build a society that works

We asked #LEAP23 speaker Kee Yuan Ngiam (Chief Technology Officer at National University Health System, Singapore) what the biggest challenges are for healthcare management in Singapore – and how technology can help overcome them.  He said: “Singapore has the same healthcare challenges as many developed nations, namely, an ageing population, burden

Ai Bias: The Need to Diversify Tech
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Ai Bias: The Need to Diversify Tech

Artificial intelligence stands to revolutionise everything from healthcare to education. But there are concerns that AI has the potential to do so in an unfair way, due to bias having crept into its algorithms. As we see more and more artificial intelligence applications in daily life, it’s important to

The beating heart of future health tech
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The beating heart of future health tech

The beating heart of future health tech Genomics, wearables, assistive tech and digitised patient services: healthcare is transforming at pace, and key industry players are looking at an optimistic future.  At #LEAP22 Asad Khan (Managing Director – Technology, Health and Public Service Lead at Accenture) sat down with Pranav Vempati (CEO

From digital healthcare to personalised medicine
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From digital healthcare to personalised medicine

Telehealth has grown a lot since early 2020. While early pandemic uptake of digital solutions could have dropped off, a 2021 report by McKinsey found that telehealth digital healthcare adoption has remained strong, as a result of improved consumer perception and robust investments into the space. So much so that

How VR is Changing the Way Doctors Learn
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How VR is Changing the Way Doctors Learn

Richard Vincent (CEO and Co-Founder at Fundamental VR) wanted to explore useful ways to integrate technology into the medical sector. At #LEAP22, he pointed out that the process of learning a surgical procedure hasn’t really changed in over a hundred years: “it still involves practising on humans. And there’

What are the untapped opportunities in digital services?
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What are the untapped opportunities in digital services?

“There are still untapped opportunities that we can leverage using today’s technology, to take us to the total level to generate a digitised era.”  These words from Mohammed Al Barrak (CTO at Jahez) at #LEAP22 have instigated an ongoing game here at LEAP. We’re analysing every task we

Genomics Push Precision Medicine to the Mainstream
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Genomics Push Precision Medicine to the Mainstream

The era of data-driven healthcare is upon us. The convergence of advanced medical knowledge, technology and data science is revolutionizing patient care leading to the next evolution in healthcare, precision medicine.  Most existing medical treatments have been designed for the “average patient.” As a result of this “one-size-fits-all” model, treatments

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