Tag: Uganda
Using smartphone tech to improve maternal health in Uganda
Maternal health in Uganda:Taheca app aims to offer the same kind of information women would get at antenatal services at health centers. ...Scoping SMS text messaging to improve symptom management in palliative care patients in rural Uganda
By AHIN: In January 2014 Dr Matthew Allsop, Research Fellow in Applied Health from Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds ...Fingerprint sensors help improve vaccination management in Africa
By Eric Wicklund – Editor( mHealthNews): A new mobile fingerprint scanner is helping to improve the vaccination rate and reduce wasteful re-immunizations ...Uganda : Academics, healthcare experts to roll out cervical cancer screening
Academics and healthcare professionals from Manchester and London will travel to Uganda this week (6 August) to push on with ambitious plans ...Uganda:Philips provides ultrasound technology for rural women
By RACHEAL NINSIIMA Royal Philips, a Netherlands- based health company focused on improving people’s lives through meaningful innovation, recently showcased how cost-effective ultrasound ...Ghana hosts first African meeting on strengthening health systems
A two-day African Regional meeting aimed at discussing ways of strengthening health systems through quality improvement, to make patient care more effective ...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 voice and ...Uganda: Students develop software to monitor unborn babies
By Esther Nakkazi Three students at Makerere University in Uganda have designed mobile phone software that can monitor foetal movements and heartbeats.The innovation ...E-health technologies spreading in developing nations
By Ken Terry The use of e-health technologies, including mobile health, is spreading rapidly in low- and medium-income countries around the world, ...GTUC Ventures into Healthcare
The Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC) is partnering the Aalborg University of Denmark to explore how Information Communication and Technology (ICT) could ...