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Promoting evidence-based health care in Africa
Charles Shey Wiysonge, Director ofCochane  South Africa, gave an interview to the World Health Organization Bulletin. Here is a re-post , with premission, from their  recent publication.Charles Shey Wiysonge is devoted to encouraging better use of scientific evidence for health policies and programmes in African countries. He is the director of the South African Cochrane Centre, a unit of the South African Medical Research Council, and a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the department of Global Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He was Chief Res...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - August 17, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news

Medtronic Finds Another Value-Based Care Partner
Dublin, Ireland-based Medtronic continues to lead the charge toward value-based care with a new five-year strategic partnership with Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), an eight-hospital network in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The partnership is aimed at developing innovative, sustainable, and integrated value-based solutions to improve healthcare outcomes for LVHN's patients. The partnership will create programs that span more than 70 major medical conditions, with the goal of positively impacting as many as 500,000 patients and reducing their cost of care by $100 million.  The organizations said the partnership will leve...
Source: MDDI - February 28, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Amanda Pedersen Tags: Medical Device Business Source Type: news