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How to Combat Malaria with Mobile Phones
Martin Edlund likes to say that malaria may one day be the first disease beaten by mobile phones. Yes, he happens to be the CEO of the non-profit Malaria No More, so he has to say stuff like that. But no, it's not a total pipedream.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How to combat malaria with mobile phones
Africa, where malaria kills around 400,000 children every year, is set to top 1 billion mobile phone subscriptions by next year. That means that public health researchers will have one billion ways to communicate with -- and collect data from -- the people who are most at risk of catching malaria, a disease that has traditionally been extremely difficult to track.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bringing HIV Labs by Backpack to Rural Africa
Daktari is planning to roll out its portable CD4 tester in 2015 across sub-Saharan Africa. The Daktari device is part of a new wave of lab-in-a-backpack instruments that can bring diagnostic testing directly to patients and health workers in the developing world.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mahindra Comviva Powers India’s ‘First’ Health Care App by Telangana Government
The Telangana Government today announced the launch of India’s first dedicated health care app for the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to provide citizens with convenient access to healthcare as part of its effort to fulfill the Digital India Initiative. The app which is powered by Mahindra Comviva, the global leader in providing mobility solutions was conceptualized by the Healthcare Innovation Cell (HIC) of the Ministry of Health.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Mobile Banking is Not Taking Off as Expected, Banker Warns
Mobile phones have been touted as the solution to banking for the poor in Africa, given that phone penetration is so high. However, some bankers warn it is not that simple.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘One Foot on a Glacier and the Other on a Bullet Train’: Forum participants discuss moving mHealth toward national health system integration
With so many apps and intervention techniques available in the private and public sectors, there is now more than ever a greater focus on these applications’ abilities to integrate and work as a system. When multiple structures are integrated into a single comprehensive design, governments can plan health systems that connect electronic and mobile interventions.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health, scale
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Q&A: Creating a Mobile Health Platform That “Just Works” for All
When something “just works”, there’s usually a mini-universe of people, technology and ideas behind it that the rest of us take for granted. Take bar codes for example; they’re ubiquitous, and serve multiple uses for every stage of a product’s manufacture and eventual sale. The tale behind them is an astounding story of vision, foresight, technological progress and, perhaps most importantly, the appropriate wrangling of partners that started with grocers and eventually cut across every industry.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Canadian Funding Supports Creation of Mobile Blood Lab in India
Grand Challenges Canada, which is funded by the federal government, is providing $1 million toward the development of a smartphone device that will test for diabetes and other conditions.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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- impact investing