A WORLD-LEADING diagnostic system designed to help remote health clinics diagnose potentially lethal infectious diseases is set to be launched at Africa Health 2012. Distributed by British-based Woodley Laboratory Diagnostics,…
BY BENSON ATONGA AND HENRY KIBIRA: MEDICAL Services minister Anyang’ Nyong’o is calling on Kenyans to embrace information technology in the provision and access to health services. Nyong’o said his…
By: Neil Versel If Ethiopia is to achieve two of the United Nations’Millennium Development Goals, mobile technologies will need to play a central role, according to a proposed strategic plan…
Pretoria – The Gauteng Department of Health, in collaboration with the National Health Laboratory Services, is implementing a new system that will make ordering blood tests by doctors more efficient.…
BY KEN MACHARIA: Two medical doctors have bagged the top ICT innovation award for their remote health solution that makes it possible for doctors to diagnose patients without physically meeting…
By DONNA BRYSON: JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Getting AIDS test results from labs to remote villages once took weeks in Mozambique, with the information sent by courier along the impoverished country’s…
Johannesburg, South Africa, 14-17 May 2012. There are great benefits to integrating primary health care and electronic medical systems into mobile health (mHealth) services, says Rob Allen, who is the…
Vodafone Ghana’s has opened entries for questions for their flagship health initiative ‘Healthline’. Ghanaians are once again invited to text their questions on health matters to shortcode 1788 across all…
By Kathleen Roney: Mobile technology is popular. That in itself is not shocking. The adoption rate of mobile technology has been rapid. You can take one look around and see…
By Ekow Quandzie(Ghana Business News) The mobile health (mHealth) market’s worth is predicted to reach $23 billion in terms of revenue by 2017, according to a new report released by…