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Each year, nearly 7,000 women in Uganda are diagnosed with cervical cancer and more than 4,000 die from it. Knowing the risk factors can help prevent your chances of being diagnosed.

Dr Davis Musinguzi Shares the TMCG story on the Desert Island Discs

COVID-Induced Telehealth Boom in East Africa Is Picking Up Pace

Credit: By Adeola Eribake and Suzi Ring – Bloomberg The pandemic has accelerated the pace of technological advances in health care, from ...

Insurers Adopt Telehealth to Widen Access to Healthcare

Written by Isaac Khisa July 27th, 2021 Credits: The Independent Globally, insurers have been perceived as slow to evolve and ...

Is Rocket Health the Hero of Tele-medicine?

July 15th, 2021 Credits: MTN Pulse Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to visit your doctor ...

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COVIDEX Manufacturer Selects Rocket Health as Distribution Coordinator Jena Herbals Uganda Limited led by Professor Patrick Ogwang has selected Rocket ...

Uganda’s Rocket Health Seeks to Tap into Growing Telemedicine Market

Five Innovators and a Whole New Meaning of Telemedicine in Uganda

Written by Ernest Jjingo May 5, 2021 Credits: The Observer Eight years ago, five young medical entrepreneurs introduced the telemedicine ...

African Telemedicine Startups Need Regulation to Reach More Patients

By Carlos Mureithi East Africa correspondent May 20, 2021   A greater number of startups in sub-Saharan Africa are offering telemedicine ...

Rocket Health launches USSD code *280# for healthcare access.

Rocket Health launches USSD code *280# for healthcare access. Uganda’s leading telemedicine service provider, Rocket Health, has introduced a new ...

Highlights of our 8 year journey

By Ivan Kabandize DISCLAIMER: This article is compiled, without any editing, directly from answers to the questions on Twitter. Errors are unintentional ...

Digitisation Does Not Come Cheap – Dr Musinguzi

Summary: A new report on the future of retail by the Innovation Village, Rocket Health, a direct healthcare consumer company ...

Gig economy: Could it drive job market trends?

A SafeBoda rider sets off to deliver goods from the market to a customer during the lockdown . SafeBoda has ...

Where does your data online end up?

Health Ministry on COVID Charges

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Telemedicine Eases Access to Healthcare in Kampala

Ugandans in need of medical services no longer have to travel distances before they can access care, as more and ...

Doctors Disagree on Telemedicine Services

While Telemedicine is seen by many as a crucial intervention to increase access to universal health coverage in Uganda, regulators ...

Insurer UAP adds Telemedicine to Health Insurance Package

In a memorandum of understanding with a new telemedicine provider The Medical Concierge Group (TMCG), UAP will offer among others ...

Dr. Musinguzi on Building a Telemedicine Company

Evenings in Kampala are mainly for meet-ups. They are the informally allotted time to meet with the people you do ...

Helpful Service Providers: COVID 19 Lockdown

We are too knee deep into lock-down extensions, that we can’t even say how long we have been here, and ...

Introducing Door-to-Door Health Services

In the past two months Faith Nassiwa, a resident of Bugolobi in Kampala has received medical services from a place ...

A Beginner’s Guide to Using Telehealth

Are you too busy to find time to see a doctor? Or maybe you are in a location that makes ...

Will Telehealth Better Uganda’s Healthcare System?

Telehealth is seen by many as a crucial intervention to increase access to universal health coverage in Uganda.  With limited ...

Coronavirus Presents Lifeline for Digital Healthcare

Even as majority of people seeking healthcare service still prefer physical contact with a doctor, Uganda’s private sector pioneers in ...