ASTRIUM and telemedecine in Africa

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Judith Aklama

The European leading space company ASTRID offers a satellite- based telemedecine program focused on HIV/AID program in  Kenya and malaria in Senegal. Read more

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Drug info soon just an SMS away- India

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Judith Aklama

A new health care solution to provide information (contraindications etc.) on prescribed drugs to one’s mobile phone. A way to make patients aware and take responsibility for their own health.

Such solution addresses several issues: self management and a shift away from telling the patient what to do as well as bridging gaps in behavior. Health literacy in action.

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MTN 10th anniversary (Nigeria)

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Judith Aklama

MTN Nigeria plegdes $1 billion in the current financial year to expand its network in under-served rural communities. Please read

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Next Generation Informatics Health care conference -India

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Judith Aklama

The Conference is being organized by IQPC and is being held in New Delhi, on the 18 and 19th of October, 2011. The event is being endorsed by the Technology Development Board, Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

http://www.healthinformaticsindia.com.

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Preventive strategies for established or emerging countries

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Judith Aklama

This is an interesting and to the point article which echoes some other the findings.  Kate Canales, creative director for Frog Design, focuses on 4 lessons from the mhealth initiatives in emerging countries. She advocates the importance of good, timely health information in the communities, building individual’s capacity to look after their own health and learning from the community what works for them. This is really about people need first and foremost. Short article to read.

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24h nurse assisted service

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Judith Aklama

MTN Care Connect and Salam have launched a pilot project to provide a basic health care guidance to all South Africans. It claims not to replace health service but to help with increasing accessibility to reliable health information.

It will later be extended to other areas of health. Read more

 

 

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Mhealth makes sense for rising countries

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Judith Aklama

“Tecchies” and policy makers but no silver bullet and with the lack of continuous evaluation of the mhealth projects to measure their effectiveness in low income setting how do we know it is working.

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Formal relationship -ATA and TSI (India)

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Judith Aklama

In his keynote at the mHealth Summit organized by GSMA and the mHealth alliance, Prof. Dr. K. Ganapathy, President- Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation makes a strong case for mhealth leadership to come from health professionals for successful user centered implementation.

In his capacity as President of Telemedicine Society of India Dr.Ganapathy signed a MOU with American Telemedicine Association for closer collaboration between India and the USA in the field of Telemedicine.

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Asia Pacific ecare and TeleCare congress

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Judith Aklama

There is an abundance of conferences on mhealth and telemedecine. So when I see a conference on Telecare, I cannot help but get a little excited. This is the first ASIA-PACIFIC summit on telecare taking place in Hong Kong. With its rapid ageing population there is no surprise that they want to shape the agenda. With very short notice have a look at the program. It is taking place on 16 to 19 June 2011 and is sponsored by the TSA amongst others.

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Telemedecine in South Africa

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Judith Aklama

This is a report on the development of Telemedecine in South Africa published by the International Development Research Center.

It highlights the challenges i.e. the inadequacy of the TeleMedecine governance, the lack of  infrastructure and most of the challenges impeding or delaying developments to realize the full potential of TeleMedecine. It is written by Maurice Mars- Professor and head of department of Telehealth at university of Kwazulu-Natal.

Read this very interesting and informative report

 

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CSC Launches Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Judith Aklama

Computer science corporation (CSC) today announced the launch of its Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices with the mission of monitoring worldwide trends, conducting regional and multi-country studies, and evaluating emerging operational practices and technologies that have the potential to improve performance of healthcare industries around the world. This is an abstract. Read more

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Affordable high quality care – Nigeria

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Judith Aklama

Collaborations between Global Resources & Projects, a Nigerian body dedicated to capacity building in healthcare has resulted in an initiative that will see Nigerians accessing high quality of specialist care without the cost and stress of travel abroad for medical attention. This TeleMedecine initiative rides on the advance of telecommunication and technology that is sweeping Africa. Africa Health ITNews item.

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Fight against Malaria- Tanzania

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Judith Aklama

Using various interventions and mobile phone platform to  monitor breeding grounds of the disease, the fight against malaria has proved successful in reducing the prevalence of the disease from 41% in 2001 to 0.4% in 2011. However the challenge remains the sustainability of such programs and behavioral changes as well as the reliability of technology that support data collection and analysis. Read more

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GSMA pre-conference briefing

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Judith Aklama

The summit opens on Monday 6 June  in Cape town. This is some of the things to look forward to…

  1. The Global System for Mobile communication Association is concerned with finding a business model to deploy mhealth to yield maximum investment return to the mobile industry.
  2. USAID is considering the development of a business case for more involvement of mobile operators in mhealth.
  3. UN foundation is announcing research studies to be released at the summit.

There is considerable evidence of the benefits of of technology in the development of Health care in Africa however the remark from Professor David Sanders of the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape is of up utmost relevance. Read more

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Tackling the effect of social isolation-Mexico

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Judith Aklama

Project Zumbido launched by the SMH foundation uses social network to reduce isolation of people with long term HIV?AIDS.

The project is based on the use of SMS messaging to provide an effective way to improve health outcome. Similarly SMH has created an mhealth support network for expecting mother with HIV. Read more on projects Zumbido in Mexico and Kopano in South Africa

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