The Health Early Warning System (HEWS) was developed by the European Space Agency specifically to aid emergency health responses in sub-Saharan Africa. The HEWS system can be adapted so that organizations and health workers can add information,...
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In Malawi, one hospital, St Gabriel's, has turned to texting in a pioneering project which allows it to communicate by SMS with hundreds of volunteer health workers serving some 250,000 people within a 100-mile (160 km) radius.
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The International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth promotes and supports telemedicine and eHealth initiatives around the world. The society organizes conferences and workshops and spreads information on telemedicine through networks of professionals and related organizations.
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A group of bioengineers at UC Berkeley has developed a simple instrument that could allow patients with chronic blood conditions, to easily and inexpensively monitor their blood from home. The device fuses two straightforward technologies—a camera...
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Launched in 2007, the mPedigree allows people buying medicine to immediately check the authenticity of the drug using a mobile phone. This Ghanaian initiative contributes to developing a comprehensive strategy to combat counterfeit drugs in developing...
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Cell-Life is a not-for-profit company providing technology-based solutions for the management of HIV/Aids by addressing logistical challenges in developing countries, such as the provision and distribution of Anti-Retroviral Treatments, continuous...
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The Rural Extended Services and Care for Ultimate Emergency Relief (RESCUER) project was launched in March 1996, on a pilot basis, in Iganga district in Eastern Uganda. The project helped empower a network of Traditional Birth Attendants to partner...
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DataDyne.org is a not-for-profit consultancy working to provide mobile data products to serve public health and international development. They develop sustainable, open source information technologies to help international agencies such as the World...
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IICD’s health projects are principally aimed at improving the health of populations in small urban centres and remote rural areas through ICT. It is predominantly in these areas, where a vicious circle of poor health, inequality and social exclusion...
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Doctors in Ghana can now communicate far more effectively thanks to a mobile phone network connecting about 80% of all doctors in Ghana. The network allows doctors to call and SMS each other at no cost for instant communication, consultations, and advice.
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CytoSight is an integrated system capable of digital image capture from Microscopes, assist in analysis, provides for composition of a report and communicate the report with embedded images over secure electronic media such as email, internet, LAN, WAN and also on to mobile phones.
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