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Nsanzimana S et al, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 59(2)
BACKGROUND
Monitoring and evaluation of antiretroviral treatment (ART) scale-up has been challenging in resource-limited settings. We describe an innovative cell-phone-based and internet-based reporting system (TRACnet) utilized in Rwanda.
METHODS
From January 2004 to June 30, 2010, all health facilities with ART services submitted standardized monthly aggregate reports of key indicators. National cohort data were analyzed to examine trends in characteristics of patients initiating ART and cumulative cohort outcomes. Estimates of HIV-infected patients eligible for ART were obtained from Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (Estimation and Projection Package-Spectrum, 2010).
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Africa | Tag(s): HIV, mHealth, Monitoring
Rick Doerr, GBI Portal
“A white paper release by the Advanced Development for Africa (ADA) last month laid out the necessary steps to scale mHealth projects in the developing world. Its goal was to provide governments, donors, and the private sector with the essential knowledge to push mHealth from pilot projects to scalable and sustainable solutions.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tag(s): mHealth, Sustainability
Maina Waruru, SciDev.Net
“Importing or copying the latest ‘e-health’ technology from developed countries may not be the best way forward for health services in Africa, a conference has heard.
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4 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tag(s): Developing Countries, Health Information Technology, Telemedicine
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Wireless mobile technologies have great potential to improve global health. But the challenges facing the implementation of mobile health IT worldwide are different than those faced by the efforts to use health IT in the U.S. to transform patient outcomes.
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24 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa, Asia, India, Uganda, United States | Tag(s): Developing Countries, Sensors, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Usability, Wireless
Apiscam
“Ayer por la tarde, como parte del programa de las jornadas del sector e-SALUD de la edición de este año de “SIMO Network” , la Feria Internacional de Servicios y Soluciones TIC para Empresas organizada por IFEMA, tuvo lugar una sesión titulada “La monitorización del paciente”
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6 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa, Spain | Tag(s): Chronic Diseases, Interoperability, Monitoring, Teleassistance
Zachary Sniderman, Mashable
“A slew of mobile initiatives are revolutionizing the way that healthcare is delivered in Africa and other developing communities. While much has been made of the “mobile revolution” in North America, phones are even more important in developing communities where they are sometimes the only way for people to share and receive information.
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28 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tag(s): mHealth
Aimable Twahirwa and Naomi Antony, SciDev.Net
“An easy-to-use diagnostic chip could be a game changer in the field of cheap diagnostics for remote regions, claim the researchers who developed it.
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7 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tag(s): Chip, diagnose, HIV
Christine Mungai, The East African
“A new report by the iheed Institute and Dalberg Global Development singles out “mHealth Education” or “mHealthEd,” a novel set of mobile applications thatcould ease the skills shortage in the health sector by providing training, testing, support and supervision of health care workers. The applications can also be used to remind patients to take their medication, or keep an appointment at the local health centre.
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11 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tag(s): mHealth
Ann Tracy Mueller, Health Care Communication News
“Can you believe it? Africa has 624 million mobile phone subscribers.
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6 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tag(s): Cellphone, HIV, mHealth
Dana Hughes, ABC News
“Over five billion people in the world today have cell phones, and they are doing a lot more than just talking. Globally, people are using mobile phones to surf the web, telecommute, and increasingly in the developing world, send and receive money. Technology experts believe that the next revolution will not be televised, but be driven by devices that fit into the palm of your hand.
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14 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tag(s): Cellphone, mHealth
Munyaradzi Makoni, allAfrica.com
“Mobile health (mHealth) initiatives that could “revolutionise” health outcomes are hampered by a lack of evaluation data, which prevents policymakers from committing resources and policies for scaling them up, according to a WHO report.
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11 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tag(s): mHealth
Alex Duval Smith, guardian.co.uk
“Experts gathered for Africa’s first mobile health summit on Tuesday hailed the use of phone technology as a new frontier in improving patient care in poor countries. But a government minister in South Africa, which is hosting the summit, called for caution over issues of regulation, confidentiality and cost to patients.
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8 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tag(s): Confidentiality, Costs, mHealth
Mobile Business Briefing
“Obed Bapela, Deputy Minister of Communications for South Africa, opened today’s event with a message that there is enormous potential for mobile health services but barriers to mainstream success must be overcome.
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8 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tag(s): Benefits, mHealth
Miriam Mannak, BusinessLIVE
“One of the obstacles in the fights against Aids is the remoteness of many parts of the continent and the dire state of the infrastructure. Targeting mobile phone users could therefore be the answer.
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6 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa, South-Africa | Tag(s): HIV, mHealth, SMS
Linda Nordling, SciDev.Net
“Just before lunch we heard from Sandhya Rao, senior advisor for private sector partnerships at USAID, about a pilot project they are going to be rolling out in Bangladesh, South Africa and India.
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6 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tag(s): Failure, Maternal, mHealth
Julie Frederikse, allAfrica.com
“Not all health professionals are convinced that mHealth is key to improving healthcare. For Professor David Sanders of the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape and a member of the international People’s Health Movement, mHealth is “a useful adjunct, but you still need inputs to address water and sanitation and other basic public health measures, and you need competent health workers”.
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6 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tag(s): mHealth
ITWeb
“Foreign investment in African telecommunications infrastructure is steadily increasing, and this is hoped to drive the development of mobile health (m-health) solutions.
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21 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tag(s): mHealth
Mupela EN et al, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 6(1)
This paper is a commentary on a project application of telemedicine to alleviate primary health care problems in Lundazi district in the Eastern province of Zambia. The project dubbed “The Virtual Doctor Project” will use hard body vehicles fitted with satellite communication devices and modern medical equipment to deliver primary health care services to some of the neediest areas of the country. The relevance and importance of the project lies in the fact that these areas are hard-to-reach due to rugged natural terrain and have very limited telecommunications infrastructure. The lack of these and other basic services makes it difficult for medical personnel to settle in these areas, which leads to an acute shortage of medical personnel.
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17 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Africa | Tag(s): Primary Care, Telemedicine, Virtual
Boursier.com
“Orange (Groupe France Telecom) a annoncé la signature de deux partenariats en Afrique visant à améliorer les services et les systèmes de santé en Afrique.
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7 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa, France | Tag(s): Industry, mHealth, SMS
Dann Okoth, SciDev.Net
“African health ministers have called for the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to help with attempts to tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes and sickle-cell disease.
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4 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tag(s): ICT, Telemedicine
