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Simon Spurr

@simonspurr30

co-founder of HealthCloud | digital health roster of experts at WHO

 South Africa
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Joined September 2010
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SilverBridge & @HealthCloud have partnered to provide insurers with a solution that automates the insurance underwriting process by integrating health data and medical records to assess the risk of onboarding individual customers. Read more: bit.ly/375wMIs
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Also joining the #EcoSystemBuilder panel was @simonspurr30, co-founder and CEO of HealthCloud. Having worked in the South African healthcare and insurance industries for the past fifteen years, he shared his knowledge on digital innovation, funding, risk design and modelling.
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Longevity@longevitymag24 Jul 2020
According to @simonspurr30, CEO of @HealthCloudSA, the pandemic has sparked the need and desire for innovation as well as dialogue in terms of changing behavior and moving forward. #Telemedicine bit.ly/2CwbmJz
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Longevity@longevitymag23 Jul 2020
.@giselewaymes spoke to Dr. Steven Holt, CEO of @FirstCareSol, @simonspurr30, CEO of @HealthCloudSA, Dr. Kofi Okyere-Dede, co-founder of @novitechdigital, Dr. Jaco Grobler, CEO of @LabstixSA; and Ronel Reyneke, product owner of @allegra_hms. #telemedicine bit.ly/2CwbmJz
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Telemedicine has been fast tracked in South Africa due to the pandemic. We spoke to some innovative leaders pivoting through Covid-19. Its an exciting area using the power of digital. @simonspurr30 @longevitymag #BusinessofHealth
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@bronwynnielsen21 Jul 2020
This week The Business of Health with @giselewaymes explores Telemedicine in South Africa and how it is changing the way healthcare will be delivered. thennielsennetwork.com @JanineBester @longevitymag Full interview: youtu.be/JaWmLzOS_yI
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@Springboks3 Nov 2019
Thank you Roger Federer! 🇿🇦 #StrongerTogether
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The first in a series of articles I’ll be writing on #DigitalHealth medbriefafrica.co.za/connect… @AnchenLaubscher @HealthCloudSA #connectingthedots
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CONNECTING THE DOTS: Digital health defined: medbriefafrica.co.za/connect… #digitalhealth
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An honor and privilege to have been selected as a member of the WHO's Digital Health Technical Advisory Board #DigitalHealth
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Are these six, SA’s most important venture capitalists? (@KnifeCap @KeetvZ @4DiCapital @JustinStanford @SilvertreeHold @clivebutkow @KalonVp @KingsonVentures @ketsogordhan @sasmefund) go.shr.lc/2ZamF4j
Are these six, SA's most important venture capitalists?

Are these six, SA's most important venture capitalists?

In more or less the order of how long they have been around in the VC sector, here are six SA venture capitalists you should keep an eye on

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Very good read this @HealthCloudSA fastcompany.co.za/inspiratio… #NHI #mhealth #interoperability
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Healthcare orgs. report that they anticipate #interoperability to be their biggest 2019 burden. Learn more about their outlook on value-based care: hitinfrastructure.com/news/h… #PopHealth #HealthcareReimbursement
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Gav Reardon
@GavReardon16 May 2019
Cool to see some of the startups pitching yesterday from around the world here at the Startup World Cup in SF, USA #startups lnkd.in/gNEfSD4
#startups | Gavin Reardon

#startups | Gavin Reardon

Cool to see some of the startups pitching yesterday from around the world here at the Startup World Cup in SF, USA #startups

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Apple's immediate plans rumored to include hearing health, period tracking, medication adherence ICYMI ow.ly/FoFq30oEKXj #Engage4Health #Aim2Innovate #WWDC2019
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Hey @IECSouthAfrica why do the hospitals not have polling stations setup? #VotingDay2019
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Wearables can do so much more than track your activity – don’t miss this great article via @ConsiderableHQ on how a Fitbit device helped user Curtis of Wisconsin identify a heart condition: considerable.com/5-dangerous…
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Cliff de Wit@clifforddw6 May 2019
Awsome to see the 👏 response from the #MSBuild audience when @satyanadella mentions the @MicrosoftSA #Azure datacenter, first in #africa
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Is healthcare data the new blood? thelancet.com/journals/landi…
Is health-care data the new blood?

Is health-care data the new blood?

Last year, an article published in The Economist declared that the world's most valuable resource was no longer oil but data.1 The piece describes the emergence of a highly lucrative data economy and...

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Queuing to vote in South Africa’s election in London. Amazing turnout!
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