More from this Special Report

• Ungoverned digital advances undermine global healthcare gains

  Too much is at stake for the future of health and wellbeing to leave digital transformations unregulated

  
• Are data trusts a suitable stewardship model for the developing world?

  How, and by whom, decisions are made over data sharing has come under heightened scrutiny

  
• Afghanistan telemedicine provides much-needed link to global help

  Prospects for patients have improved thanks to everyday tech enabling medics to call on the expertise of their peers abroad

  
• Robots give surgeons a helping hand

  Machines are common in US hospitals but Europeans remain more sceptical

  
• Online therapy start-up aims to reduce stigma of mental health in Middle East

  Egyptian service is helping mental health patients overcome cultural barriers across the region

  
• China sets the pace in adoption of AI in healthcare technology

  Concerns remain over privacy and security of mountain of healthcare data

  
• The dark side of digital devices for children and how to beat it

  Online content may cause anxiety and stress, but technology could also offer ways out of these problems

  
• Africa’s health-tech start-ups find support from incubator cash

  A $50,000 seed investment has allowed a Kenyan pathology business to spread across the continent

  
• Young people must be given a voice in crafting their digital health futures

  The adoption of digital technology is fuelling concerns about its effect on mental health and social development

  
• Pakistan start-up looks to break taboos around menstruation

  Many women in the country remain uninformed about periods, but a social media-based project is targeting the problem

  
• Mexican platform advances digital diagnostics in Latin America

  Healthtech Eva enables remote test analysis and broadens access to healthcare by users outside large urban centres

  
• Kenyan mothers-to-be get the healthcare message

  An AI-powered SMS system is aiming to lower infant mortality by spotting danger signals in questions about pregnancies

  
• Telemedicine in photos: Covid and virtues of the virtual view

  The pandemic has proved the potential of telemedicine, particularly in mental health

  
• How to bridge the digital divide?in healthcare

  With the right tools and governance, we can empower the communities that will benefit most from digital innovation

  
• AI harnessed for early identification of cardiovascular problems

  Technology could lift a huge financial burden from healthcare systems, especially in developing countries

  
• Three ways to ensure health tech innovation benefits all

  ‘We need approaches that are inclusive by default’

  
• Health tech industry learns true value of medical data

  With the emergence of artificial intelligence, health data has become gold

  
• Send us your ideas on how technology can improve healthcare

  The FT is exploring how technology can improve the health of the poorest people in the world

  
• Tougher public safeguards urged for digital health data

  Lancet report argues that governments should limit data extraction of powerful tech companies

  
• Beware hype over AI-based healthcare in lower-income countries

  Research is needed to better evaluate costly technology that may offer little value

  
• Five ways AI can democratise African healthcare

  Barriers need to be overcome before data and information technology can be harnessed in poorer countries

  
• We need a new era of international data diplomacy

  Global standards on collection, storage and use would improve health while protecting privacy

  
• Big Tech’s latest moves raise health privacy fears

  Data about the most intimate details of our lives should not be exploited by corporations

  
• ‘Fire hose’ of health innovation risks going down the drain

  Covid-19 reinforces the need for global co-operation in the nascent digital healthcare industry

  
• In charts: Healthcare apps target tech-savvy youth

  Digital tools are helping to identify and treat chronic conditions early on

  
• Tech’s power comes with great responsibility in fighting disease

  Digital tools have proved invaluable to health officials, but have led to an unprecedented sharing of personal data

  
• Rwanda venture tests digital health potential in developing world

  Babylon’s high take-up masks concerns for equality of access and hyping of AI capabilities

  
• Human dimension presents new hurdles for AI in medicine

  Accuracy is not enough — technologies with great promise fail to factor in real-world issues

  
• Big Tech searches for a way back into healthcare

  Despite past failures, Google and other tech giants see great promise in the sector

  
• Covid-19 response can result in the health systems we need

  Pandemic highlights ethical and structural concerns over digital governance

  
• AI set to transform healthcare in world’s poorer regions

  Concerns remain over lack of regulation, governance and equity

  
• Covid-19 pandemic accelerates digital health reforms

  Privacy rules loosened as push towards e-healthcare gathers pace

  
• Biotechs harness AI in battle against Covid-19

  Drug discovery and development groups combine resources to fight pandemic

  
• Health systems worldwide receive wake-up call

  AI is helping to diagnose, treat and curb the spread of Covid-19

  
• Tech offers Latin America prospect of fairer healthcare

  Digital innovations aimed at improving access for region’s poorer communities

  
• Drugmakers get hooked on data

  Pharma groups hope troves of patient records hold key to faster cures and bigger profits

  
• Time for healthcare to make better use of data

  Machine learning is only effective if it is based on accurate sources

  
• How data analysis helped Mozambique stem a cholera outbreak

  Silicon Valley start-up Zenysis drafted in to help authorities tackle disease

  
• AI in Africa healthcare falls short of potential

  Continent faces obstacles of infrastructure and ethics

  
• In charts: healthcare technology in low-income countries

  Lack of funding results in a shortage of resources, while doctors are overstretched

  
• Temperature tracker offers sea change for vaccines

  Wireless sensors used to prevent life-saving medicines from spoiling in transit

  
• MomConnect lets expectant mothers know what to expect

  South African antenatal texting service is being replicated across the continent

  
• India turns to AI to counter skilled healthcare staff shortage

  Start-ups offer hope of quality care but critics worry about data privacy

  
• Africa races to fill telecoms ‘not spots’

  Resourceful medical services use 3G and 2G signals to overcome poor network coverage

  
• South Africa’s digital health travails provide useful lessons

  Country yet to match ambition for data-fed, unified system with investment in skills and infrastructure

  
• App takes aim at ‘secrecy and taboo’ around menstruation

  Unicef-backed Oky looks to dispel myths and overcome stigma around periods

  
• India healthcare turns to big data to protect the masses

  AI-driven app proves a powerful tool to contain coronavirus, but critics voice privacy fears

  
• Uganda tackles diseases with a phone call

  Call for Life’s system automatically phones HIV patients to check their welfare

  
• The dance app that helps assess Parkinson’s

  Mobile app based on South African Vosho craze repurposed to tackle debilitating disease

  
• Value from health data creates dilemma for society

  Questions over AI’s potential in poorer countries also relevant to western healthcare systems

  
• Harnessing the power of AI for global health

  Lancet/FT Commission examines how to match new technology with suitable regulation

  
• Tanzania’s digital doctor learns to speak Swahili

  AI chatbot symptom checker bolsters African nation’s stretched healthcare system