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Why Patients Deserve Cannabis-Educated Healthcare Professionals

Business and Tech

The medical cannabis market has expanded, too. Gavin Newsom signed SB311 (aka “Ryan’s Law”), “requiring that hospitals and healthcare facilities allow terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis instead of opiates for pain relief.”. Nearly 35 million U.S. By June 2021, approximately 3.6 million patients were enrolled in U.S.

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Africa’s best chance to fix its healthcare infrastructure is here

Christensen Institute

This group of 30 healthcare innovators –and others like them–gives Africa the best and, possibly, only chance to improve its healthcare infrastructure. If the i3 program, and others like it, succeed, African healthcare will improve. The state of Africa’s healthcare system is somewhere between broken and nonexistent.

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What Does Healthcare Innovation Entail?

IdeaScale

We live in an age of technological innovation, and one of the biggest beneficiaries of new technologies has been the healthcare industry. Advances in diagnostic and treatment technologies are revolutionizing how healthcare is delivered. Here are just a few examples of healthcare innovation management in action. and much more.

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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower Innovation

This shift allows business to reallocate human resources to more complex and strategic roles, or eliminate those positions entirely. At TechEmpower , we are using LLMs, RAG, fine tuning and other Generative AI techniques to revolutionize a key part of day-to-day operations in healthcare.

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Calling all innovators: Africa’s electricity market is ripe for market-creation

Christensen Institute

Africa has the lowest levels of per capita use of modern energy, and despite the region being home to 60% of the best solar resources globally, there’s only 1% of installed solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity due to lack of sufficient investments being directed towards these resources. . To be successful in the food industry (i.e.

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Inspiration and hope at the I3 Access to Market event in Nigeria?

Christensen Institute

On December 6, 2022, I got the opportunity to attend the inaugural Investing in Innovation (I3) Access to Market event in Nigeria. First the event was focused on the innovators and, more specifically, connecting them to markets. Investing in market-creating innovations is the key to this prosperity.

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The great miscalculation–and exit–of multinationals in Africa… again

Christensen Institute

Nestle cut staff across 21 countries and Barclays, Coca-Cola, Cadbury, Eveready, and SABMiller retreated from different African markets they once believed had promise. The implication is that if a company is not focused on market creation–that is, transforming nonconsumption to consumption–it need not be in Africa. So, when a U.S.

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