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Recent Developments, <br /> Key Innovations, and <br /> Insightful Reports

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Vodafone backs mHealth project in Mozambique

Vodafone is supporting the health ministry of the government of Mozambique in scaling awareness about the need for vaccinations among the people in Mozambique. The medium used for this communication will be mobile phones. Read more here.

January 28, 2013

Driving real impact through mobile phones

This post, by the CEO of Living Goods speaks about how mobile phones have helped effectively scale the access to essential healthcare to a number of communities in the developing world. The post enlists some of the other initiatives that can be looked into, to streamline the flow of provision […]

January 28, 2013

India: Telemedicine startup Drishti eye care raises funds from Lok Capital

Telemedicine start up, Drishti eye, which provides essential eye care to the underserved at the base of the pyramid, through different modes like telemedicine supported vision centres, screening camps and surgical care at district hospitals has managed to raise funding from India based impact investing fund Lok Capital. Read more […]

January 28, 2013

For mHealth success in developing countries, not overwhelming the recipients is important

Developing countries have been the focal point of scaling of several mHealth projects, mostly due to need based innovation. However, this post argues for the case of not ‘overwhelming your audience’, through mass-media approaches adopted by many mHealth initiatives, wherein broadcast messages are sent very often. Read more here.

January 28, 2013

mHealth market to reach US$10.2 billion by 2018

According to a new report by Transparency Market Research, the global mHealth market is expected to reach a total worth of US$10.2 billion, come 2018. This growth will be driven by increased adoption of smartphones and tablets, and the rising incidences of chronic diseases. Read more here.

January 28, 2013

India: Providing remote medical care in inaccessible areas

This post looks at the initiatives that India has taken to kickstart the use of telemedicine to scale access to healthcare for the poor in the remotest corners of the country. For India, where 70 per cent of its population lives in rural areas where medical care is hard to […]

January 28, 2013

mHealth in an mWorld

This report by Deloitte projects how over the next 10 years, mobile health initiatives are going to save the global helthcare industry a projected sum of US$305 billion. Read the report here.

January 28, 2013

Tagit, Smartlink to launch mobile money service in Vietnam

Singapore based mobile technology firm Tagit, and Vietnamese swtich operator have collaborated to provide aggregated mobile banking services to as many as 51 banks in Vietnam and a number of mobile users. Read more here.

January 28, 2013

Nigerians transacted NGN 228 million via mobile banking in 2012

According to a document released by the Ministry of Communications Technology, the total amount transacted by Nigerians using mobile money in the last 12 months, amounted to NGN 228 million. Moreover, the number of verified mobile money agents, currently at 3000 is expected to rise to 50,000 by 2015. Read […]