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GSMA mHealth Infographic: MDG 6 - How mHealth is Supporting the Combat of HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
This infographic highlights the How mHealth is Supporting the Combat of HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Webinar Slides: How to maximise the impact of mHealth services for maternal and child health
These are the slides for GSMA mHealth’s webinar “How to maximise the impact of mHealth services for maternal and child health” which occured on 13 November 2012.
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Using mHealth to Support Universal Health Access
This report discusses: Current State of Global Healthcare: Health Gains & Failures; Global & Regional Overview of mHealth Services; mHealth Services Addressing Universal Health Indicators; Review of 794 Mobile Operators’ Involvement in mHealth; Examples within the mHealth Categories and Regions; and the Future Development of the mHealth Tracker.
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Health Hotline Services in Emerging Markets
Health hotlines (medical call centres) play an important role particularly in preventative medicine and disease diagnosis, strengthening over-burdened health facilities and healthcare service delivery, especially in developing countries
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Integrating Healthcare: The Role and Value of Mobile Operators in eHealth
This paper explores the emerging role of mobile operators in eHealth: the GSMA presents opportunities for mobile operators to play a significant role in integrating systems, organisations and people across the health system, effectively integrating mobile into the health patient pathway.
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South Africa Mobile Health Market Opportunity Analysis Full Report
Healthcare stakeholders are increasingly turning their attention to the opportunities that can be enabled through the application of mobile technologies in health. Despite a significant body of research documenting the potential benefits of mobile within healthcare, there remain a number of obstacles to realising this potential and achieving sustainability.
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South Africa Mobile Health Market Opportunity Analysis Summary
Healthcare in South Africa is at a critical juncture, facing profound inequalities between public and private healthcare, escalation of costs and critical shortages of healthcare professionals. These and other challenges require immediate, innovative and scalable solutions. There must be a renewed and major investment in health if current gaps in provision are to be filled, something the Government is already planning with its introduction of a new National Health Insurance scheme.
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MET Key Design Considerations for Service Development
Mobile Health technologies and services are proliferating as both the healthcare and mobile industries become increasingly aware and interested in their potential to improve efficiencies and access while reducing costs. The number of wellness and health related applications has grown exponentially as consumers incorporate health and fitness information and tools into their mobile lifestyle.
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MET Framework for Technology Assessment for Mobile Health
This paper aims to help mobile industry develop a strategy around the architecture that is needed to deliver on Mobile Health strategies, including the extent to which existing infrastructure can be leveraged, which net new capabilities need to be created, considerations for integration into other systems from other partners and stakeholders.
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MET Mobile Health Services Marketing
This paper provides an initial look at the current state of Mobile Health services marketing in developing countries and begins to synthesise the learnings and draw out the differences with respect to the marketing and promotion of Mobile Health services relative to traditional health services or other mobile VAS.
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Mobile Health in the Pharmaceutical Industry
This overview examines the extent to which mobile applications can support the pharmaceutical sector. It will examine why these applications have largely not been driven by the mobile industry, and identifies the potential role for MNOs if they want to take on a larger portion of this sector.
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Mobile Health in the Health Insurance Industry
This overview examines the extent to which mobile applications can support the health insurer sector. It will examine why these applications have largely not been driven by the mobile industry, and identifies the potential role for MNOs if they want to take on a larger portion of this sector.
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Policy and Regulation for Innovation in Mobile Health
As healthcare systems around the world tackle the challenges of rising demand and expectations, mobile communications are opening up new possibilities for improving access, for freeing time for clinicians to spend on care rather than administration, and for engaging people in their own health and wellness.
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Mobile Health: Who Pays?
Published by GSMA & ATKearney. Mobile Health is big news in the telecoms industry. Although there is little consensus on the size, or even scope, of the global market for mobile health, several sources predict a market in the United States on the order of 4.5 billion dollars within the next two to three years.




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