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Failing to Scale: Fixing Common Missteps in mHealth Ventures
Telemedicine or mHealth systems have great potential to bolster fragile health care systems in the developing world. However, these programs often fail to survive beyond the pilot phase. A team at the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship Program at Penn State studied 35 telemedicine and mHealth projects and discovered six recurring reasons for failure to scale. Program director Khanjan Mehta offers solutions to some common missteps.
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MobileODT’s Goal: Making Cervical Cancer Screening Available to Every Woman, Everywhere – at a Profit
Cervical cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, but most of those deaths could be prevented through early detection. MobileODT has developed a low-cost colposcope that uses smartphones to replace more complex and expensive cervical screening systems. Here, CEO and cofounder Ariel Beery talks his company's plans to reach billions of people in both developed and developing countries.
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- Health Care
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Learning From Failure: Lessons From Nigeria About Integrating Technology Into Rural Health Systems
A study showed that most people living in a Nigerian territory lacked access to health care, leading to a radical eHealth pilot project. That pilot failed, but lessons learned ultimately led to a stronger and more sustainable eHealth framework in Nigeria and can help others who hope to integrate technology into health systems, especially in limited-resource settings.
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Curing Pilot-itis for mHealth
How do you take mobile health projects beyond the pilot stage in low- and middle-income countries? Build for scale and sustainability from the start. That's the goal of a bot for Messenger built for the South African National Department of Health’s MomConnect maternal health platform, and launched this week at the International AIDS Conference.
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