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Monday, January 28, 2013 — No Region Specified

Better Design, Better Health: Bringing Telemedicine to Rural India

Source: Good

Twenty-six year-old Rinku has been bleeding for days. So she did what many village women in rural India do when health problems reach a certain level of severity; she made the multi-hour trip to a private hospital for high-quality, if expensive, healthcare.

TAGS:health care, public health, rural healthcare delivery, telemedicine

Monday, January 21, 2013 — Sub-Saharan Africa

In Central Mali, MSF Staff Bunkers Down, Clamoring for Access

Source: Devex

The day after it called for military leaders to unblock access to crucial roads in central Mali, the majority of Médecins Sans Frontières’s staff remained on lockdown, unable to provide medical care and services to those in need.

TAGS:health care, NGO, rural healthcare delivery

Monday, January 21, 2013 — No Region Specified

Sierra Leone's free health-care initiative: work in progress

Source: The Lancet

More than 2 years have passed since Sierra Leone granted pregnant women, new mothers, and young children free health care, but their needs often remain unmet.

TAGS:health care, medical supply chains, public health, rural healthcare delivery

Monday, January 14, 2013 — No Region Specified

UT Arlington receives Grand Challenges Explorations grant for research in global health

Source: Phys.org

A new research grant could lead to new ways to cool vaccines and medicine that must be shipped to remote parts of the world without ready access to electricity.

TAGS:academia, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, health care, pharmaceutical industry, public health, rural healthcare delivery, vaccinations

Monday, January 14, 2013 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Rwanda: Telemedicine Project On Track Year After Plan Was Hatched

Source: AllAfrica.com

A year after a plan to connect Rwandan hospitals through telemedicine was announced, the government says the project is set to start soon in some district hospitals.

TAGS:health care, infrastructure, public health, rural healthcare delivery, telemedicine

Wednesday, January 09, 2013 — Asia Pacific

S’pore firm and Mongolian government create ‘Medical Silk Road’ to improve healthcare with mobile technology

Source: SGEntrepreneurs

The Mongolian government has partnered with Singapore’s Borderless Healthcare Group to improve rural healthcare through the use of mobile technology. The initiative is dubbed the ‘Medical Silk Road’.

TAGS:health care, mobile applications, rural healthcare delivery, telemedicine

Wednesday, January 09, 2013 — South Asia

Providing remote medical care in inaccessible areas

Source: The Hindu

Future of Indian medicare is Telemedicine, opined experts in the field, which is evolving into a promising technological intervention to provide quick and super-specialty medical care to even people residing in a remote place.

TAGS:rural healthcare delivery, telemedicine