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Reaching New Patient Segments with Urban Clinics

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Meridian Medical Centres offered middle-income patients modern, fully equipped medical facilities. Read more


Marketing & Patient Demand · Kenya

Business Models for Rural Nurse Cellphone Consultation

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ClickDiagnostics, a mobile medical diagnostics start-up originally developed in MIT’s Media Lab, created a remote diagnosis and treatment technology in order to enable better access to healthcare in the developing world. Read more


Strategy & Business Models · South Africa

Designing an Ambulance Service to Serve the Working Poor

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As East Africa’s largest international call center, KenCall’s services included customer support, telesales, financial analysis, competitive research, and database management. Read more


Strategy & Business Models · Kenya


Bringing Business Tools to a Growing Urban Clinic

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The Kampala Family Clinic (KFC) is a private practice offering family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, HIV services, physiotherapy, and laboratory services. Read more


Management · Uganda

Multifaceted Service Delivery Improvements for a Pediatric Clinic

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Muthaiga Paediatrics Clinic was a small, private facility that aimed to deliver the highest quality of care by providing a personalized, family-friendly experience. Read more


Operations · Kenya

Drawing Lessons from Business for Healthcare Delivery in Ghana

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The Ghana refining and marketing branch subsidiary of Total, a French-based multinational energy company, operated 212 service stations in the country’s ten regions Read more


Strategy & Business Models · Ghana


Drawing Lessons from Business for Healthcare Delivery in Kenya

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The Kenya subsidiary of Total, a French-based multinational energy company, encompassed both refining and marketing , with over 100 service stations, oil and liquefied petroleum gas depots, and a lubricant plant in Mombasa. Read more


Strategy & Business Models · Kenya

Empowering Hospital Outreach Workers Through mHealth

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LifeSpring Hospitals is a chain of maternity facilities providing high-quality affordable health care to low-income women in India. An MIT student team returned to LifeSpring to evaluate its marketing strategy and consider using an mHealth tool in its outreach efforts. Read more


Technology Adoption · India

Tapping into Community Nursing to Improve Hospital Outcomes

2011--Lifespring

LifeSpring Hospitals is a chain of maternity facilities providing high-quality affordable health care to low-income women in India. Read more


Operations · India


Optimizing Clinical Nurse Managers’ Role for Healthy Births

2013--LifeSpring

LifeSpring Hospitals is a chain of maternity facilities providing high-quality affordable health care to low-income women in India. Read more


Operations · India

Mapping the Market for Maternal Health Diagnostics in Botswana

2012--Daktari

In 2012, Daktari requested a second team of students to research potential opportunities in maternal health diagnostics in Botswana. Read more


Marketing & Patient Demand · Botswana

Defining the Market for a Rugged Diagnostic Device

2011-Daktari

US based Daktari Diagnostics commercializes low-cost, rugged health diagnostics. Read more


Marketing & Patient Demand · Uganda


Keys to Bringing a New Diagnostic Tool to Market

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To support its planned launch in Kenya, Daktari engaged a student team to explore the company's options for supply chain, service, maintenance, and training that would best enable the novel machine to reach patients in need of testing. Read more


Strategy & Business Models · Kenya

Leveraging Data to Grow an HIV Management Business

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CareWorks, a South African firm, provided HIV-related services to companies, medical insurers, and other organizations. Read more


Strategy & Business Models · South Africa

Hospital Market Positioning Amid a Changing Health Sector

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CARE Hospitals evolved from a cardiac hospital to a chain of multi-specialty tertiary and quaternary care hospitals with 1600 beds in five Indian states that aimed to provide affordable, high quality services to a broad a segment of the country’s population, including lower-income segments. Read more


Marketing & Patient Demand · India