Gienna Shaw, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Mobile healthcare shows promise in developing countries, but when you look closely at some of the great programs and dedicated people that are out there with boots on the ground, it quickly becomes apparent that Western ideas about technology don’t always translate.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“The Journal of Medical Internet Research recently published a research paper called, SMS Applications for Disease Prevention in Developing Countries
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Déglise C et al, J Med Internet Res, 14(1)
Background:
The last decade has witnessed unprecedented growth in the number of mobile phones in the developing world, thus linking millions of previously unconnected people. The ubiquity of mobile phones, which allow for short message service (SMS), provides new and innovative opportunities for disease prevention efforts.
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Were MC, Meslin EM. AMIA, Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2011
Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) are increasingly being used in many developing countries, several of which have moved beyond isolated pilot projects to active large-scale implementation as part of their national health strategies. Despite growing enthusiasm for adopting EHRs in resource poor settings, almost no attention has been paid to the ethical issues that might arise.
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Leach RJ et al, International Journal of Services, Economics and Management, 4(1)
The infrastructure needed in developing countries, especially in rural areas, often makes providing state-of-the-art healthcare cost prohibitive. We describe a highly asynchronous service model for healthcare delivery that is inexpensive, at least compared to the usual implementation of telemedicine, and involves technical service, public health, training and political aspects.
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EurekAlert!
“A lack of infrastructure in developing countries, and particularly in rural areas, often ensures that healthcare provision is absent. Research published in the International Journal of Services, Economics and Management by a team at Howard University in Washington DC suggests a solution to this insidious problem involving the development of telemedicine.
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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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Joel Selanikio, Mobile Message
“In 1995, I was working as a health officer for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). One evening found me kneeling on the concrete floor of a small hostel in rural Western Kenya, pocket knife in hand, laptop on the floor in front of me. With the hostel manager’s permission, I was hand-splicing the one telephone landline embedded in the wall to the port on my laptop – in order to connect to the Internet via a phone number in Nairobi.
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Holanda AA et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2011
It is believed that Electronic Health Records (EHR) improve not only quality of care but also patient safety and health care savings. This seems to be true for developed countries but not necessarily in emerging economies. This paper examined the primary care physicians’ satisfaction with a specific EHR in a health district of a major city in Brazil and describes how they are using it as well as its specific functions. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey with all physicians from all Community Health Centers of the 6th health district of the City of Fortaleza that were using HER was conducted. From the 111 subjects (100%), a total of 99 physicians answered the survey (89% response rate). For overall satisfaction with the EHR, 2 (2%) were satisfied, 50 (50.5%) were satisfied in part and 47 (47.5%) were not satisfied.
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chiscosayans, doctordoctor
“Durante la semana pasada se celebró la ITU Telecom World 2011, en la ciudad suiza de Ginebra. La UIT (Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones) es un organismo de las Naciones Unidas especializado en Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación.
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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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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“McKinsey & Co. said in 2010 that the global market for mobile health was worth about $50 billion, with $20 billion of that in the U.S. alone. ABI Research estimated that sales of wearable wireless devices would top 100 million units per year by 2016. GigaOM cites those findings, but attempts to explain why.
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Jaspal S. Sandhu, SSI Review
“More than three-quarters of the world’s 5.3 billion mobile phones are located in the developing world. These increasingly powerful devices are proving to be a lifeline for people who need improved access to health services. The trend of using mobile phones for health—known as mHealth—represents an unprecedented opportunity for improving public health.
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Anna-Marie Lever, BBC News
“Voltage regulators, infrared sensor technology and ultrasound scanners are just some of the donated equipment lying redundant in the world’s poorest countries.
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Justin Chakma, HBR Blog Network
“In recent years Stanford University’s BioDesign program has sent teams of engineering, business, and medical students into hospitals, hoping to identify medical problems that new devices could help solve. The students observe medical procedures, come up with ideas, and develop prototypes for the best ideas.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“If you read MobiHealthNews, you undoubtedly know about GE Healthcare’s Vscan pocket ultrasound, available for about $8,000, or less than one-tenth the cost of a traditional ultrasound machine. But did you realize that the impetus for shrinking ultrasound technology to handheld size came from GE’s efforts at cracking the Chinese market?
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Jaspal S. Sandhu, SSIR
“More than three-quarters of the world’s 5.3 billion mobile phones are located in the developing world. These increasingly powerful devices are proving to be a lifeline for people who need improved access to health services. The trend of using mobile phones for health—known as mHealth—represents an unprecedented opportunity for improving public health.
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Heather Clancy, Smart Planet
“When it comes to using mobile technology for healthcare applications, there is plenty developed nations could learn from activities going on in emerging nations.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“At last month’s World Congress 3rd Annual Leadership Summit on mHealth, Kate Canales, creative director of Frog Design, spoke about what mHealth programs can learn from the developing world, reports SmartPlanet.
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Andrew J. Dupree, ICTworks
“I am Andrew J. Dupree, and in the developing world, many people die every day due to lack of access to basic medical measurements, such as blood pressure, and corresponding diagnoses.
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