Africa Healthcare
Africa healthcare is about the major stories that impacts or defines the management of healthcare in Africa
Kenya: Using Technology to Save Lives At the Community Level
By Aude Galli: The extraordinarily rapid spread of mobile telephone use in Africa is nothing but remarkable. It was in Africa in ...Nigeria: Dell Introduces New Intel-Powered Tablet for Healthcare
By Ojo Maduekwe(This Day): In a bid to transform the Nigerian healthcare system, through the use of technology, leading computer manufacturer, Dell, ...Nigeria: LAUTECH hospital, second best in medicine in West Africa
Nigerian Tribune: LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Osun State is one of the foremost state-owned teaching hospitals in the South-western Nigeria. For a ...Mobile phone technology, to save lives in Sierra Leone.
By Henry Makiwa: The Red Cross has teamed up with the telecommunications industry to use mobile phone technology, to save lives in ...Tanzania is using Text messaging (SMS) service to boost maternity care
By Janita Ferentinos: The unique healthy pregnancy text messaging (SMS) service reached 100,000 active registrants in March 2013. More than 4 million text ...GSK partners Vodafone in Africa vaccination project
GlaxoSmithKline, the global healthcare company, has formed a partnership with Vodafone to harness innovative mobile technology to help vaccinate more children against ...Africa: Mhealth 'Could Save a Million African Lives By 2017'
BY MAINA WARURU SciDev.Net Mobile health (mHealth) applications such as text messages could save more than a million lives in Sub-Saharan Africa ...Samsung launched new health initiative in Africa
AHIN: Samsung Electronics Africa has launched its solar-powered health center model, marking the start of a large-scale medical initiative on the continent. The mobile centers are ...Africa : ORTEC’s Corridor Medical Transfer System Wins Computerworld Award
By AHIN: In 2012, 218,762 people visited North Star clinics to receive counselling testing, and treatment, all registered with a passport system developed ...Orange’s healthcare division to harness ICTs in Africa’s healthcare delivery
By Henry Neondo(africasciencenews): Orange has unveiled projects that utilise information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enhance medi-care delivery. Through its healthcare division ...