You’re a busy a doctor. You have few minutes to spare and just received a survey about a prescription medication. You know that the data you submit will eventually…
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At most conferences, attendees leave company booths with business cards, pamphlets, or free trials. But this year, at the Annual National Institute of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, attendees who…
Last year, I gave my dad a Watsi gift card for his birthday. I watched him go on the homepage and read the patients' stories. I was curious who…
We met Khem in Cambodia. He’s a 70-year-old father from Cambodia with eight daughters and 35 grandchildren. "Some say it is a large family. But for me it…
We met BT at his desk. But the 44-year-old care coordinator at Children’s Surgical Centre [https://watsi.org/partners/csc?utm_source=watsi&utm_medium=blog&utm_…
Meet the all-woman team of surgeons changing the face of healthcare in Cambodia. Cambodia’s healthcare system collapsed fifty years ago. In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge came to power…
Watsi cofounder Grace Garey was named one of Elle's top women in tech! The full article (original [http://www.elle.com/culture/tech/news/a28764/elle-women-in-tech/]) from Elle…
What do you bring when you need care? An estimated 400 million [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/174536/1/9789241564977_eng.pdf] people around the world have no…
A few months ago, we detected an increase in no-show patients at one of the hospitals that provides healthcare to Watsi patients in Kenya. The patients who failed to show…
In honor of Mother's Day, we asked mothers in Cambodia and the U.S. what advice they give their children. No two answers were the same, but they…
In 1997, University of Oregon professor Paul Slovic sat at his desk in Oregon, but his mind was 8,000 miles away in Rwanda. It was just three years after…
> Join us for a live chat on Reddit with Dominga, a patient who was locked out of the Guatemalan healthcare system, and Peter, the doctor who made sure she…
> In Guatemala, the biggest obstacle to accessing healthcare isn’t always money. Francisca has had severe diabetes since she was six years old. When she got pregnant last year,…
San Francisco’s LinkedIn [http://linkedin.com] office hosted a St. Patrick’s Day fundraiser yesterday for Watsi. LinkedIn’s four business lines — sales, marketing, talent, and Lynda — raced to…
Some patients and their families wait years for healthcare. When they finally have the opportunity to receive treatment, what do they say? When a patient seeks care, a doctor interviews…
Meet Emily, Nisha, Aditi, and Saba - the four board members of Watsi's chapter at UC Davis. The Watsi chapter at UC Davis organizes fundraisers and events to…
When Christopher J.L. Murray was 10 years old, he ran a pharmacy. His parents moved his family from Minnesota to England, bought two Land Rovers, drove across the Sahara…
> Meet three women from Guatemala whose New Year's resolutions hinge on health When a healthy baby would have been gaining weight and bursting with energy, Estela'…