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mHealth events at Mobile World Congress
With 25th of February just around the corner we are excited to share various mHealth activities happening at Mobile World Congress. Wednesday 27 February: 14:00 - 15:30: Health: Achieving Scale through Partnerships 16:00 - 17:30: Health: Innovating fo...
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New Interactive mhealth Impact Pathway on Mobile for Development Intelligence
Mobile for Development Intelligence (MDI) recently published an mHealth Interactive Impact Pathway, a logical framework used to measure inputs, outputs, and outcomes against stated activities or occurrences. This impact pathway highlights focus areas across...
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mhealth 101 and How It Can Be Used To Save Lives
This is a guest post by Andrew Broderick, the co-director of the Center for Innovation and Technology in Public Health. This post originally appeared on the Impatient Optimists blog. Each year, approximately 350,000 women around the world die unnecessarily ...
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A look at ‘mHealth: Emerging High-Impact Practices for Family Planning’
This week, the FHI 360/PROGRESS project and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Knowledge for Health project published a draft on the use of mobile technologies in support of family planning and reproductive health, called ‘mHealth: Emerging ...
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The most dramatic mHealth moments of 2012
Yesterday, the Mobile World Live team launched the most dramatic mobile moments of 2012. We thought it only fitting for the GSMA mHealth team to end with a similar, dramatic ending to 2012. We’ve been trawling our websites, talking to people in the know and ...
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New CHMI report highlights trends and challenges in mHealth
The following is a guest post by Trevor Lewis, who works on the Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI), an initiative of the Results for Development Institute. In many emerging economies, the world’s poor seek healthcare in a marketplace that bears l...
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Why We Prefer Plain Mobile Phones: Simplicity Is Key!
This is a Guest Blog from Text to Change (TTC) Programme Manager, Arjen Swank (@arjenswank). It originally appeared on the Text to Change blog, and you can read it in its entirety here. The ICT4D sector is developing and evolving in a rapid pace and ICT and...
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New infographic on MDG 6: How mHealth is Supporting the Combat of HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
The GSMA mHealth team has published an infographic that presents Global Overview of mHealth services with a deep dive in mHealth services in Africa addressing Millennium Development Goal 6 and showcasing three mHealth services in Africa addressing MDG6. If i...
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Visit us at mHealth Summit and win an iPad Mini: December 3 – 5, 2012, in Washington, D.C.
25% discount on Full Access Pass with code: GSMA-MEM12 A soon-to-be released GSMA whitepaper reveals that U.S. healthcare providers, patients and consumers strongly believe that mHealth solutions have the potential to deliver significant benefits. Healthcar...
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Sweating mobile assets to support the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health
Leaders met in Geneva this week to discuss the progress made on the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health and to plan for the next two years. Interestingly, mobile and ICT almost didn’t feature on the agenda or in discussions. One attendee me...
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mHealth Webinar: Highlights and recording
While progress in maternal and child survival has been made, this has not been enough to achieve the Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5. Even though maternal mortality has declined dramatically, the situation is still worrying specifically in Sub-Saharan A...
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iAfya: Health Information through mobile phones - today in Kenya, tomorrow across Africa
This is a guest post, written by Dr. John Muthee, Head of Business Development, Avallain Africa "If we can improve access to health information to the masses, then we are on our way to improving health interventions and ultimately, reducing health related ...
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Upcoming mHealth Webinar: How to maximise the impact of mHealth services for maternal and child health
While progress in maternal and child survival has been made, this has not been enough to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. According to a recent report, maternal mortality has declined dramatically, with maternal deaths dropping from 543,000 to 287...
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iheedCrowd: Animated health content for mHealth platforms
This post is written by Kunal D Patel, Medical Director at The iheed Institute. iheedCrowd, an online animation platform where digital designers have the opportunity to create the next generation of health education content, has been launched by iheed. ...
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Is there potential for eHealth and mHealth in Nigeria’s Saving One Million Lives Initiative?
Yesterday, Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan launched Saving One Million Lives, an initiative that will aim to improve access to essential primary health services and commodities for Nigeria’s women and children and to save one million lives by 2015...
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Designing mHealth services for post-2015 MDG agenda
Next week the UN Commission will be meeting in Abuja to discuss the Life-Saving Commodities initiative. Nigeria, which accounts for 14% of global maternal deaths, is expected to attract significant commitments from the international community as well as launch...
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mHealth in Kenya: great potential but many challenges to address
Kenya is a country of 41 million people and US$783 GDP per capita. With a health system still needed to be put in place, Kenya’s major health concerns are: High HIV prevalence rates (HIV rate is 6.3%); Extremely high rate of maternal and infant deaths ...
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Integrating 3 into 1: Creating National Repositories of Information for mHealth & eHealth services
There is a proliferation of m and eHealth services, driven primarily by mobile operators, international donor agencies and civil society. Despite the proliferation of mobile services, the latent potential has not been directly converted into a sustainable impa...
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What is the role for Mobile Operators in MDG 4? A look at Etisalat’s Mobile Baby service
Last week I presented various mHealth initiatives that are helping to achieve MDG 5, which is to improve maternal health. This week I will present the role of mobile operators in helping to achieving MDG 4, with a focus on Etisalat and their Mobile Baby servic...
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How mHealth is helping to achieve MDG 5
In the previous two blogs, I presented frightening state of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and mHealth solutions addressing it. In the upcoming two blogs, I will address MDG 5 and MDG 4 and various mHealth initiatives. MDG 5: improve maternal health. Target 5...
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The Current State of HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Part 2
This is the second blog in a two-part series about the state of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and current mHealth initiatives addressing HIV/AIDS in the country. This post presents current mHealth initiatives in South Africa. Read Part 1 here. A tremendous need...
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The Current State of HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Part 1
This is the first blog in a two-part series about the state of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and current mHealth initiatives addressing HIV/AIDS in the country. This post presents the state of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, while the next blog will address mHealth initi...
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Treating malnutrition in Zanzibar: Empowering health workers with an mHealth solution
The following is a guest post by Marc Mitchell, Founder and President of D-tree International. It’s an excerpt that appeared on Health Works Collective, as part of the Mobile Health Around the Globe series. Read it in its entirety here. Zanzibar, an islan...
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Polio Vaccinations in Angola: How Movicel uses Mobile to help in Vaccination Campaigns
‘’Polio is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease. There is no cure, but there are safe and effective vaccines. The strategy to eradicate polio is therefore based on preventing infection by immunizing every child until transmission stops and ...
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Every two minutes a woman dies in childbirth – can mHealth help?
August 6th 2012 is a date I will never forget-- the date that my first nephew was born. I was overwhelmed when my mum called me to tell me the news! Tears and laughter at the same time! According to my sister, everything went smoothly apart from the unbeara...
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Hacking for Health: Working with Technology to Improve Healthcare in Malawi
The following is a guest post by Isaac Holeman. It's an excerpt that appeared on National Geographic News Watch, as part of the Digital Diversity series. Read it in its entirety here. After driving south to the end of the pavement, we continued on gravel an...
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Mobile operator value proposition increasingly aligns with health
In just the last three years alone, the industry has witnessed significant strides that mobile operators have made in expanding from direct-to-consumer health services to the enterprise health market. Orange, together with GE, has been awarded a contract to in...
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Pilot-itis: What's the cure?
The following is a guest post by Sara Chamberlain, Head of ICT in India for BBC Media Action. This post originally appeared here. Speakers at the GSMA Mobile Health (mHealth) Summit in South Africa bemoaned the 'Pilot-itis’ - the inability to break ou...
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Collaboration essential to achieve scale in mHealth
Across Africa, 6 countries boast mobile penetration rates in excess of 100 percent. Cognisant of the fact that only one Mobile Operator (MNO) across the African continent has 100 percent market share (Ethiopia), it stands to reason that leveraging the reach...
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mHealth and the Current State of Global Healthcare
The current state of global healthcare can be illustrated by a few key characteristics: an aging and increasing population; the threat of pandemics; the increasing costs of treatments; and, a short supply of physicians - with experienced specialists unevenly d...
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The Value of Health Hotlines: A Perspective from the Philippines
In 2001, Dr. Santos, a young doctor who originally hailed from one of the remote islands in the Philippines, moved to Manila to continue her medical residency in a much larger private hospital. Sometime in 2006, she received a call on her mobile phone at aroun...
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Mobile and Development Intelligence launches with key mHealth metrics
This week, the Mobile for Development launched the Mobile and Development Intelligence portal in conjunction with Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm established by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Through an open access portal, mHealth stakehold...
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Illustrating mHealth services across the Patient Healthcare Pathway & the MDGs
Last week at the Mobile Health Summit in Cape Town, our mHealth programme released a series of reports providing insight into the mobile health space. The team’s report on Using mHealth to Support Universal Health Access illustrates a comprehensive overview ...
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Cholera, Location Based Information and the Mobile Phone
Cholera, a water born intestinal infection caused by exposure to contaminated food and water, has been largely eradicated from developed countries which have adequate water and sanitation facilities. However, in many parts of the developing world, where access...
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