We’re a year into COVID-19. The novelty value has worn off and for many, every day feels like Groundhog Day. As screens have become the window to work, as well as the window to friends and family, we’re spending the best part of our waking days talking to our devices. The likelihood is we’re missing non-verbal, …
Category: Africa
BroadReach Co-founders featured in Microsoft’s Humans and AI series
Africa, BroadReach Group, BroadReach Health Development, Disruptive technology, Global Health, Health Equity, Public Health / Public Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainable Development, Universal Health Coverage, Vantage Health TechnologiesMicrosoft’s Humans and AI Series focuses on passionate people from around the globe who are putting AI into action in order to transform the world. Our Co-founders, Dr John Sargent and Dr Ernest Darkoh have been featured for the work we are doing at BroadReach to change medical systems and improve care for patients. Click …
BroadReacher Diaries Entry 1: Life advice from a software engineer
Africa, AI for Healthcare, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, BroadReach Group, BroadReach Health Development, Digital Healthcare, Disruptive technology, Health Technology, Healthcare Innovation, Predictive Analytics in Healthcare, Public Health / Public Healthcare, USA, Vantage Health TechnologiesI’ve often been asked by friends, family, and colleagues – how do you stay so happy and positive? I’ve always said something like “I don’t know… I just do.” But having thought about it, I realised that I have cultivated certain habits or behaviours over the years that keep me in a positive state of …
Global COVID-19 experts see inequitable distribution and vaccine hesitancy as the key challenges for Africa in 2021
Africa, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, BroadReach Group, BroadReach Health Development, Covid-19, Digital Healthcare, Global Health, Health Equity, Healthcare Innovation, Public Health / Public Healthcare, USA, Vaccines, Vantage Health TechnologiesGlobal and African vaccine experts join BroadReach Group webinar to address mass vaccination rollout concerns and solutions Webinar in summary: Mass immunizations must be treated as a multi-year marathon, and vaccine hesitancy must be addressed before herd immunity can be achieved. – Dr Tim Mastro, chief scientist at FHI 360 Health authorities must share vaccine …
Community health workers must be better supported in 2021, the Year of the Healthcare Worker
Africa, BroadReach Health Development, Covid-19, Emerging economies, Future of Work, Global Health, Health Equity, Public Health / Public Healthcare, Sustainable DevelopmentFrontline health workers, who are to be honoured during the World Health Organization’s international Year of the Healthcare Worker in 2021, must be better supported in their vital role to beat back the global COVID-19 pandemic on community level, according to global health technology experts, BroadReach Group. Frontline health workers, and in particular Community Health …
Coining a phrase: data insight experience
Africa, AI for Healthcare, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Big Data and AI, BroadReach Group, Decision Support, Digital Healthcare, Future of Work, Future of Work, Guided Workflows, Health Equity, Health Technology, Healthcare Innovation, Predictive Analytics in Healthcare, Public Health / Public Healthcare, USA, Vantage Health TechnologiesA study by McKinsey tells us that less than 1% of data is used to make real business decisions[1]. At the same time, we talk about data being the “new oil”, holding so much intrinsic value. So why is it that just 1% of the total data in the world yields value? We have gone …
Managing Directors of BroadReach Group businesses announced
Africa, BroadReach Group, BroadReach Health Development, Digital Healthcare, Disruptive technology, Health Technology, Healthcare Innovation, Public Health / Public Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainable Development, USA, Vantage Health TechnologiesBroadReach Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Bhuhi and Todd Malone as the Managing Directors of our two newly constituted business units: Vantage Health Technologies and BroadReach Health Development, respectively. BroadReach is a global social impact group whose mission is to harness health technologies and innovation that empower human action. We fulfil …
BroadReach Group announces partnership with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
Africa, AI for Healthcare, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Big Data and AI, BroadReach Group, Digital Healthcare, Disruptive technology, Future of Work, Future of Work, Health Technology, Healthcare Innovation, Predictive Analytics in Healthcare, Sustainable Development, USA, Vantage Health TechnologiesNovember 2020: BroadReach Group proudly announces its role as partner on the recently launched Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. BroadReach has integrated its cloud platform for population health management – Vantage – with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Vantage provides management decision-support and operational tools to governments and private sector payer and provider organizations enabling them to …
BroadReach wins Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funding for the Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) project
Africa, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, BroadReach Group, BroadReach Health Development, Global Health, Health Equity, Public Health / Public Healthcare, Vantage Health TechnologiesCreating tools to improve maternal health in West Africa BroadReach, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will be developing a machine learning tool to improve maternal health as part of the Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health project. Over the next two years and in collaboration with the African Academy of Sciences and the West Africa Health Organization (WAHO), BroadReach will use actionable data insights to help improve maternal, neonatal …
BroadReach urges HIV positive patients to remain on treatment to protect themselves from contracting severe cases of COVID-19
Africa, BroadReach Health Development, Covid-19, Digital Healthcare, Global Health, Health Equity, HIV, Public Health / Public HealthcareThe ‘syndemic’ of HIV and other factors and diseases like COVID-19 was a major topic at the International AIDS2020 Conference (8-10 July 2020) as discussed by Ambassador Deborah Birx, US Government AIDS Coordinator and Coranavirus Coordinator for the White House, in her keynote address. BroadReach issued this advice following the release of their observational data …
AIDS2020 Poster Presentations
Africa, BroadReach Group, BroadReach Health Development, Global Health, HIV, Public Health / Public HealthcareAIDS2020 went virtual this year. We were there to showcase three e-poster presentations. Learn from our experts: Identifying high risk populations for targeted testing and rapid treatment response from a COVID-19 screening and testing cohort in South Africa: an observational data analysis | Lynsey Stewart-Isherwood Click here to view the e-poster Improving the quality of …
JIAS study: Same‐day antiretroviral therapy is associated with increased loss to follow‐up in South African public health facilities: a prospective cohort study of patients diagnosed with HIV
Africa, BroadReach Health Development, HIV, Public Health / Public HealthcareAbstract Introduction South Africa introduced Universal Test and Treat in 2016 including antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation on the same‐day as HIV diagnosis. Our study sought to evaluate the impact of same‐day ART initiation on loss to follow‐up (LTFU) and mortality comparing with patients who initiated ART after their HIV diagnosis. Methods We conducted a file …
Opinion: Pandemic Lessons from a Health Solutions Company
Africa, AI for Healthcare, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Covid-19, Decision Support, Digital Healthcare, Future of Work, Future of Work, Guided Workflows, Health Equity, Health Technology, Healthcare Innovation, Predictive Analytics in Healthcare, Public Health / Public Healthcare, Universal Health Coverage, USA, Vantage Health TechnologiesBroadReach has been preparing for this moment in time since our founding. Applying our 17 years of learning and investments, we defined and implemented a COVID-19 pandemic response around two dimensions: demand (screening, testing, contact tracing, and treatment) and supply (the health system, including facilities, workforce, and supply chains). From my own 30+ year journey …
Artificial intelligence unmasks Covid-19 hotspots
Africa, AI for Healthcare, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, BroadReach Group, BroadReach Health Development, Covid-19, Digital Healthcare, Future of Work, Health Technology, Healthcare Innovation, Predictive Analytics in Healthcare, Public Health / Public Healthcare, USA, Vantage Health TechnologiesWith Covid-19 cases rapidly spreading across the country, South Africans have been hearing a lot about hotspots, clusters and targeted testing lately. A home-grown cloud-enabled screening and communication app has been helping community health care workers in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal mark hotspots seamlessly by recording live community screening in real time. The Vantage community screening …
ANNOUNCEMENT: 1 million people screened for COVID-19 on Vantage
Africa, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, BroadReach Group, BroadReach Health Development, Covid-19, Digital Healthcare, Healthcare Innovation, Public Health / Public Healthcare, Vantage Health TechnologiesToday, 20 May 2020, marked a major milestone in our COVID-19 response efforts, as we exceeded 1 million people screened for COVID-19 on the Vantage Community Screening Application. This is a huge achievement across the BroadReach Group from the technology, engineering and delivery teams working remotely all hours of the day and night, to our …
Partner Opinion: Partnerships in Times of Crisis
Africa, AI for Healthcare, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Big Data and AI, BroadReach Group, Covid-19, Digital Healthcare, Disruptive technology, Future of Work, Health Equity, Health Technology, Healthcare Innovation, Predictive Analytics in Healthcare, Public Health / Public Healthcare, USA, Vantage Health TechnologiesThe current global crisis has highlighted a number of areas, from the need of efficient information management to the need of accurate data gathering for faster medical response. In looking at the role of technology during this period, one area that has stood apart in driving meaningful change is the role of partnerships. Today, more …