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January 7, 2013
Rotary launches international telemedicine programme
The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Sunrise and the Rotary Club on Manila have collaborated to improve the healthcare access conditions in Philippines through the medium of telemedicine. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Apollo telemedicine centre launched in Myanmar
The Apollo Group of Hospitals has recently launched a telemedicine healthcare centre in Yangon, Myanmar. This service will be able to scale the access to healthcare to a number of underserved individuals in the area. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Afroindia and Apollo collaborate for telemedical units for the poor
Afroindia Medical Services Limited, a healthcare provider in Nigeria has signed an MoU with Apollo Group of Hospitals from India, who have already started instating telemedical units in Africa, to set up some 100 telemedical centres in West and East Africa. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Using games to leverage mHealth
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is offering prize money for app developers who can come up with games which can target behaviour change in the adoption of preventive healthcare measures. Research shows that well-designed and well-implemented games can motivate and support prevention. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Why Nigeria needs a national eHealth strategy
This post outlines the efficacy of eHealth in treating a number of healthcare cases in Nigeria that would otherwise remain open ended because they are not too serious for emergency departments, and neither is any history accessible regarding the patient. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Quick rundown of African mobile health initiatives
As much as 80 per cent of all African diseases stem from preventable causes. This post gives an overview of the expanse of influence of mHealth and eHealth initiatives in Africa. A number of intnerational aid organized as well as national government organized eHealth and mHealth initiatives have been started. […]
January 7, 2013
How mobile phones are helping leverage healthcare in the developing world
This post highlights a number of intiatives that target bettering the healthcare outcomes in poor regions of the developing countries by leveraging the use of cell phones. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Brazil: Telefónica Group and MasterCard form new venture in Brazil
Spain based telecom company Telefónica Group and MasterCard International have recently collaborated in Brazil to develop applications for people using payment services on their mobile phones. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Percentage of India using mobile money rises
The total number of transactions using mobile banking has risen by 124 per cent in the period between August 2011 and October 2012. Read more here.
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