Innovative technology solutions for primary care exist in South Africa. Phukulisa Health Solutions, for example, offers a platform that mimics a consultation with a healthcare practitioner. Equipped with Bluetooth sensors,…
Tanzania is well placed to reap the benefits of m-health initiatives. In recent years, the evolution of digital technology has emerged as a key trend. This has in turn presented…
The world might be facing uncertainties when it comes to the global economy due to the effects of the novel COVID-19, but the global pandemic has offered us a glimpse…
The International Labour Organisation estimated in 2015 that 56% of people living in rural areas worldwide do not have access to essential healthcare services. And in Ghana today, rural people…
By Laura Owings Despite increasing use of mobile technologies in African healthcare, key challenges remain, writes Laura Owings. As a community health worker tasked with tracking infant vaccinations in Kenya,…
Another mhealth success has been recorded in Ghana. Vodafone’s Healthline 255, the first medical phone service in the sub-region is making a huge impact in the lives of hundreds of…
By AHIN: The mHealth Alliance plans to shift its base of operations in 2014 from the United Nations Foundation in Washington, DC to South Africa. mHealth Alliance hope to finalize…
BY MAINA WARURU SciDev.Net Mobile health (mHealth) applications such as text messages could save more than a million lives in Sub-Saharan Africa over the next five years, according to a…