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August 30, 2012
Bangladesh: Airtel and DBBL launch mobile banking services
Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd, in partnership with Airtel Bangladesh Ltd launched mobile banking services for Airtel subscribers in Bangladesh. This will enable the users to use, among other features, person to person money transfer using the DBBL channel. Read more here.
August 30, 2012
Telehealth delivery models in India
There is an urgent need for innovations involving the existent framework of telehealth and telemedicine to scale healthcare access to rural areas in India. Most innovations occurring in this field occur in the private sector. This post enlists three key observations made by ACCESS Health International while undertaking a comparative […]
August 30, 2012
How mHealth helps Uganda’s health clinics
In Uganda, approximately every 131 beds serve nearly 36 million people, and children die of preventable diseases, especially malaria. Here is where mTrac helps the medical facilities. mTrac lets the clinics and hospitals keep track of medical supplies, and uses text messages based system to diagnose rural patients. Since it […]
August 30, 2012
India: Madhya Pradesh to start tele-medicine facilities soon
Six government hospitals in Madhya Pradesh will soon be providing tele-medical services in the state of Madhya Pradesh. After launch of these facilities, the medical colleges will work as resource centres and the government hospitals will be attached to these. Read more here.
August 30, 2012
India: 56 per cent youth get health advice on their phones in Madhya Pradesh
In Madhya Pradesh, a private telecom operator had launched mHealth services in November last year, and it is now found in a study that about 56 per cent of users of this service belong in the age group of 16 to 35. Read more here.
August 30, 2012
The Digital Dimension of Healthcare 2012
This report by the Digital Innovation in Healthcare outlines the facts that given the technology boom, digital innovation has the potential to address the three primary challenges of healthcare – rising costs, uneven quality and inadequate access. Read more here, and read the report here.
August 30, 2012
Mobile wallet services launched in Burundi
The Burundi Commercial Bank and the east African country’s Telecommunications Company (ONATEL) recently launched a mobile money service in the country called Mobicash. Read more here.
August 30, 2012
Philippines: Rural banks going high-tech
To compete with bigger banks, rural banks in Philippines will soon have tele facilities. In association with tele-coms, the banks will use relevant applications, enabling them to expand their microfinance networks. Read more here.
August 30, 2012
India: New wave of tech start-ups to diminish borrower lender gaps in microfinance industry
There is a new wave of start-up companies which are building technology enabled platforms, the primary goals of which is to bridge the communication gap between the borrowers and the lenders in the Indian microfinance industry. Read more here.
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