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Reaching New Patient Segments with Urban Clinics
Meridian Medical Centres offered middle-income patients modern, fully equipped medical facilities. Read more
Business Models for Rural Nurse Cellphone Consultation
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
Designing an Ambulance Service to Serve the Working Poor
As East Africa’s largest international call center, KenCall’s services included customer support, telesales, financial analysis, competitive research, and database management. Read more
Bringing Business Tools to a Growing Urban Clinic
The Kampala Family Clinic (KFC) is a private practice offering family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, HIV services, physiotherapy, and laboratory services. Read more
Multifaceted Service Delivery Improvements for a Pediatric Clinic
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
Drawing Lessons from Business for Healthcare Delivery in Ghana
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
Drawing Lessons from Business for Healthcare Delivery in Kenya
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
Empowering Hospital Outreach Workers Through mHealth
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
Tapping into Community Nursing to Improve Hospital Outcomes
LifeSpring Hospitals is a chain of maternity facilities providing high-quality affordable health care to low-income women in India. Read more
Optimizing Clinical Nurse Managers’ Role for Healthy Births
LifeSpring Hospitals is a chain of maternity facilities providing high-quality affordable health care to low-income women in India. Read more
Mapping the Market for Maternal Health Diagnostics in Botswana
In 2012, Daktari requested a second team of students to research potential opportunities in maternal health diagnostics in Botswana. Read more
Defining the Market for a Rugged Diagnostic Device
US based Daktari Diagnostics commercializes low-cost, rugged health diagnostics. Read more
Keys to Bringing a New Diagnostic Tool to Market
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
Leveraging Data to Grow an HIV Management Business
CareWorks, a South African firm, provided HIV-related services to companies, medical insurers, and other organizations. Read more
Hospital Market Positioning Amid a Changing Health Sector
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