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At Grameen Foundation, an international nonprofit becomes a software developer
The Grameen Foundation was providing health care to pregnant women in Ghana in 2010 when the organization had an idea: As cellphones become more widely available in developing nations, health information can be quickly disseminated to poor patients in remote locations via voice and text messaging.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Timeline: Smartphone-enabled health devices
Mobile health has come a long way since the start of 2009 when Apple demonstrated on-stage at its World Wide Developer Conference how blood pressure monitors and blood glucose meters could connect to the iPhone 3G via cables or Bluetooth. MobiHealth News has tracked smartphone-enabled health and fitness devices over the course of the past five years.
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- Health Care, Technology
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China’s Healthcare Choice: Innovation or Access?
China today faces a dilemma in healthcare development between the present and the future. A fundamental choice will need to be made between financial incentives for future medical innovation or price controls that broaden present access to care
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Diagnosing Jaundice by Phone: How ClikJaundice is using mobile technology to empower parents at the BoP
Jaundice is a potentially serious but easily treatable condition affecting about half of the world’s newborns. But at the BoP, limited access to health care can make it difficult to diagnose, putting babies at risk of severe brain damage. Now, in India, a new mobile tech product called ClikJaundice is providing remote diagnosis of jaundice at an affordable price.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Hospital Calculates The ROI Of An iPad At 9 Days
I attended a healthcare event last year that needs to remain nameless. It wasn’t a big event. In fact, it was very focused and relatively small. That’s about as much as we need to know because our headline came from that conference and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) who served it up wishes to remain anonymous. That’s ok, of course, but the story and lesson are definitely worth reviewing.
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- Health Care
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HP deploys virtual health platform to help deliver quality psychiatric care in rural India
As part of HP's continued commitment to making healthcare accessible to people living in remote parts of India, HP today announced the availability of a virtual health technology platform that will enable healthcare professionals to virtually conduct specialist psychiatric consultations with patients.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Japan Joins Fight Against Neglected Diseases
Tens of thousands of new compounds will be screened for effectiveness against critical illnesses
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- Health Care
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66th World Health Assembly: 5 takeaways
The 66th World Health Assembly concluded with a number of resolutions and action plans adopted and approved in the more than week-long conference.
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- Health Care, Investing