mHealth

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

South Africa leads in mHealth

By: Cadine Pillay: South Africa is leading the way in mobile health or mHealth - the practice of medicine and…

11 years ago

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…

12 years ago

Uganda: Smart Phones Improve Access to Health Information

By Andrew Green(VOA , News) The widespread affordability of cell phones in developing countries, like Uganda, has led to experiments with…

12 years ago

Ethiopia: A “learning lab” for national mHealth strategy

By: Neil Versel If Ethiopia is to achieve two of the United Nations’Millennium Development Goals, mobile technologies will need to play…

12 years ago
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Africa Health IT News (AHIT) is primarily focused to the needs of health practitioners and other stakeholders in Africa. The content of Africa Health IT News is partly to showcase the positive trends in Africa healthcare which would not be mentioned or highlighted in most media.

Also, we aim to report trends and development in healthcare across the world which has been attained through the use of IT and all modern platforms, to help Africans in managing and developing their own healthcare.