HIV
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
Joseph Kim, MedicalSmartphones
“South Africa has one of the highest human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence rates in the world, but despite the well-established benefits of HIV counseling and testing (HCT), there is low uptake of HCT.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: South-Africa | Tag(s): HIV, mHealth, SMS
Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“Virco Lab, an independently operated biotechnology and diagnostics software subsidiary of pharmaceutical manufacturer Johnson & Johnson, has released what may be the first electronic health records (EHR) system both optimized for HIV and AIDS care and certified to federal Meaningful Use standards.
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22 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): HIV, Industry
texttochange
“The C4C program with Health Child targets pregnant women and the community in the Eastern region of Uganda, Jinja. There are still high rates of child mortality at 147 per 1000 live births. The program uses a community based approach to reduce maternal and infant mortality in Uganda, accelerating uptake of post partum care and promotion child health including early infant HIV diagnosis.
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16 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Uganda | Tag(s): Awareness, HIV, Maternal, mHealth, SMS
Ben Parfitt, FrontlineSMS
“Africa has undergone a mobile revolution, and it is spreading. The health sector is capitalizing on the resulting plethora of new opportunities. Doctors, nurses, health workers and pharmacists often rely on their mobile phones, using them as a reference tool, accessing information otherwise unavailable to them.
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16 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Kenya | Tag(s): HIV, mHealth, SMS
Herwehe J et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
Louisiana is severely affected by HIV/AIDS, ranking fifth in AIDS rates in the USA. The Louisiana Public Health Information Exchange (LaPHIE) is a novel, secure bi-directional public health information exchange, linking statewide public health surveillance data with electronic medical record data. LaPHIE alerts medical providers when individuals with HIV/AIDS who have not received HIV care for >12 months are seen at any ambulatory or inpatient facility in an integrated delivery network.
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30 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, HIV, Public Health
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
McInnes DK et al, BMC Research Notes, 4(1)
BACKGROUND:
When detected, HIV can be effectively treated with antiretroviral therapy. Nevertheless in the U.S. approximately 25% of those who are HIV-infected do not know it. Much remains unknown about how to increase HIV testing rates. New Internet outreach methods have the potential to increase disease awareness and screening among patients, especially as electronic personal health records (PHRs) become more widely available. In the US Department of Veterans Affairs medical care system, 900,000 veterans have indicated an interest in receiving electronic health-related communications through the PHR. Therefore we sought to evaluate the optimal circumstances and conditions for outreach about HIV screening. In an exploratory, qualitative research study we examined patient and provider perceptions of Internet-based outreach to increase HIV screening among veterans who use the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) health care system.
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17 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Communication, HIV, phr
Chang LW et al, AIDS and Behavior, 2011
Mobile phone access in low and middle-income countries is rapidly expanding and offers an opportunity to leverage limited human resources for health. We conducted a mixed methods evaluation of a cluster-randomized trial exploratory substudy on the impact of a mHealth (mobile phone) support intervention used by community-based peer health workers (PHW) on AIDS care in rural Uganda. 29 PHWs at 10 clinics were randomized by clinic to receive the intervention or not.
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27 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Uganda | Tag(s): HIV, mHealth, Rural
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
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
LiveScience, MNN
“Still think cellphones are bad for your health? In the poorest regions of the world they have the potential of saving millions of lives, a fact that far outweighs the miniscule, if any, risk of developing brain cancer.
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25 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Diabetes, HIV, mHealth
Juzang I et al, J Telemed Telecare, 17(3)
We explored the feasibility of engaging young black men in a 12-week text messaging programme about HIV prevention. There were two non-randomized groups of 30 young men each. The participants were aged 16-20 years, self-identifying as black or African-American, sexually active, who owned a mobile phone and lived in Philadelphia. They received three text messages per week for 12 weeks. People in the intervention group received text messages about HIV prevention, while those in the control group received text messages about nutrition.
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25 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Behaviour, Cellphone, HIV, mHealth, SMS
Rotheram-Borus M-J et al, Trials, 12
BACKGROUND
Pregnant women living with HIV (WLH) face daily challenges maintaining their own and their babies’ health and mental health. Standard Prevention of Maternal to Child Transmission (PMTCT) programs are not designed to address these challenges.
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25 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: South-Africa | Tag(s): Cellphone, HIV, Maternal, mHealth
Mahmud N et al, Technology and Health Care, 18(2)
Healthcare delivery in the rural developing world is limited by a severe shortage of health workers as well as profound communicative and geographic barriers. Understaffed hospitals are forced to provide care for patients that reside at a great distance from the institutions themselves, sometimes more than 100 miles away. Community health workers (CHWs), volunteers from local villages, have been integral in bridging this patient-physician gap, but still lose enormous of amounts of time in transit between hospital and village.
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16 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Adherence, Cellphone, Developing Countries, HIV, SMS
A home telemedicine system for patients with stable HIV infection has proved popular among patients and has reduced consultation times by half, say doctors in Barcelona and Madrid.
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10 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Spain | Tag(s): HIV, Telemedicine, Virtual Hospital
Mitchell KJ et al, Health Education Research, 2011
The increase in cell phone use has manifested a growing interest in using this technology for health promotion. The portability and ‘always on’ features of the cell phone, along with increasing capability for the devices to carry and transfer data suggest that they will reach more people than computers and the Internet in coming years. Self-reported quantitative survey data from 1503 secondary school students in Mbarara, Uganda collected in 2008-2009 suggest that 27% currently have cell phones and about half (51%) of all students and 61% of those who owned a cell phone believe that they would access a text messaging-based HIV prevention program if it were available.
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4 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Uganda | Tag(s): Adolescents, Cellphone, Health Information, HIV, SMS
UNAIDS
“With more than 7 000 people newly infected with HIV everyday and 1 000 of these new infections occurring in South Africa, Stellenbosch University just outside Cape Town, was the ideal setting of a high level panel discussion on how social media and mobile technology has been and can be leveraged to prevent new HIV infections.
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4 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa, South-Africa | Tag(s): HIV, mHealth, SMS, Social Media
Andreas Menn, Mobile Economy
“Medizin via Handy wird zum Boomthema des Jahrzehnts – dank neuer High-Tech-Accessoires für Smartphones, die uns den Puls fühlen oder den Blutzucker messen. Aber auch mit Low-Tech-Mobilfunk sind schon heute Vorsorgeprogramme erfolgreich – per SMS.
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20 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa, United States | Tag(s): Babies, HIV, mHealth, SMS
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“EMRs help improve the quality of care in developing countries, according to a new study out by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the schools of medicine at Indiana University and Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya.
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25 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adoption, Alert/Reminder, Digital Divide, emr, HIV
