Tag: mHealth
Understanding healthtech growth in Africa
The world might be facing uncertainties when it comes to the global economy due to the effects of the novel COVID-19, but ...Mobile health services can help in rural Ghana if they have the human touch
The International Labour Organisation estimated in 2015 that 56% of people living in rural areas worldwide do not have access to essential ...Funding Africa’s mHealth innovators only half solution
By Laura Owings Despite increasing use of mobile technologies in African healthcare, key challenges remain, writes Laura Owings. As a community health ...Ghana: A huge success for Ghana’s first medical call center
Another mhealth success has been recorded in Ghana. Vodafone’s Healthline 255, the first medical phone service in the sub-region is making a ...mhealth alliance base moving to Africa
By AHIN: The mHealth Alliance plans to shift its base of operations in 2014 from the United Nations Foundation in Washington, DC ...mHealth initiatives making a difference
By Greg Slabodkin: Mobile healthcare neither replaces nor displaces health providers but enables and enhances their practices, according to an article in the Online Journal of ...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 ...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 ...South Africa leads in mHealth
By: Cadine Pillay: South Africa is leading the way in mobile health or mHealth – the practice of medicine and public health ...Africa Health Agencies net Grants to Improve Women’s and Children’s Health Using Mobile Technology
Press Release The Innovation Working Group (IWG) and mHealth Alliance announced the eight 2012 winners of catalytic grants today at a luncheon ...
