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Most health and fitness mobile apps useless in Africa – HIFA2015
A large number of the mobile health and fitness apps used in Africa are useless in such low-resource settings, in spite of their rising popularity, according to Health Information For All by 2015 (HIFA2015).
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The Best of 2013: What’s Game-Changing in Latin America?: How new financial technologies and business models are powering financial inclusion in the region
Latin America has a long way to go in achieving financial inclusion, despite generally positive trends. Its residents often struggle with lack of savings and credit access, limited credit histories, and high interest rates - and they often avoid formal financial institutions. Accion Venture Lab describes some innovative business models and technologies that are addressing these issues.
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South African trauma center launches portable electronic trauma health record application
Electronic health records (EHRs) have become standard practice throughout hospitals in North America, but in countries with fewer resources many front-line clinicians are still collecting data on paper, if they are collecting it at all. But now, surgeons from Vancouver, British Columbia, have developed a way for their peers at a Level I trauma center in South Africa to accurately collect and analyze trauma care data via an iPad app.
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Mahiri Mobile Delivering Lifesaving Healthcare in Rural Ghana
Doctors at hospitals in Tamale and Nsawam, Ghana, are delivering new levels of lifesaving healthcare to remote areas of the country without traveling to see patients in person. Mahiri Mobile Services of Accra has outfitted nurses in rural villages in with wireless tablets that deliver high quality, live medical-grade video(TM) back to the doctors in Tamale and Nsawam for medical advice.
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Government partnerships essential to scale mhealth projects
Want to scale your mHealth solution? Mobile health implementers say the key is to engage with the government early and often so that they will eventually take over the project and bring it to scale.
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The Best of 2013: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Mobile money as a retail payment system
You may be tired of hearing about mobile money, but the world is not. For instance, the GSMA keeps ramping up its count of mobile money deployments across the world: today’s number is 191. Let me dig under the hype and give a personal assessment of where things are - be it good, bad or ugly.
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Tweeting to Better Financial Products : What USAID learned in its pilot project to harness real-time data to improve entrepreneur loans.
To gain a better understanding of the digital footprint of loan beneficiaries, USAID interviewed a small sample group about their usage of various digital tools, and asked them about the terms they use when talking about accessing loans.
he agency then used those terms and keywords to build filters to monitor social media chatter about financial inclusion, and deployed monitors through Twitter and Google search trends.- Categories
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Crowd-sourcing Nepal’s rural healthcare
An Internet campaign to solicit funds for the medical procedures of individual patients in rural Nepal is increasing donor awareness and healthcare provider accountability, public health practitioners say.
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