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Taking Stock and Saving Lives: How an m-Health Initiative Is Revolutionizing Health Care in Uganda

Stephanie Rudat | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Uganda, Medical Records, Mhealth, Mobile Phones, Public Health, Nonprofits, Hiv, HIV/AIDS, Africa, Prescription Drugs, Computer Science, HIV/AIDS Africa, Technology, Healthcare, Global Health, Impact News

Until recently, most health clinics in Uganda, and indeed across the continent of Africa, transmitted all of their data manually. The journey of a paper record from doctor's pad to the Ministry of Health in Kampala was treacherous at best.

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mHealth: My Father's First Cellphone and the Evolution of Risk

Dr Layla McCay | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Cell Phones, Mhealth, Health, Safety, Mobile Phones, Regulation, Innovation, Data Security, Health Care, Risk, Mobile Health, Mobile Health Care, Health News, Healthy Living News

Cellphones are being used in prevention, diagnosis and treatment, from prenatal to the last years of life, right across the spectrum of care. In health and development, "mHealth" (short for "mobile health") is the new black.

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Will mHealth Revolutionize Healthcare?

Jose Marquez | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Mhealth, Latino Politics, Latino Voices News

Perhaps you use your phone for social networking, checking the weather or sports, or games. But have you thought about how this device may actually improve your health?

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One of the People-people

Kate Otto | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Mhealth, Africa Phones Health, Phones Health Care, Health Care Conferences, Africa Mobile Phones, Ethiopia Health Care, Mobile Phone Health, Health Care Summit, Ghana Health Care, Mhealth Summit, Impact News

At the mHealth Summit, an annual gathering that attracted 3,600 participants this year, attendees were united in their desire to use of mobile phones to improve health care quality and access.

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Access to the Power of Vaccines

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Mhealth, Center for Strategic and International Studies, International Vaccine Access Center, GAVI Alliance, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, World Health Organization, Vaccines, Johns Hopkins, Public Health, Decade of Vaccines, Bill Gates, Global Health, Pneumococcal, Impact News

Several major announcements have been made in recent weeks about the expansion of vaccine access to the world's poor.

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How Haute Couture Can Explain mHealth

Tom Murphy | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Olpc, Mhealth, Global Health, Sms, Tech, Ict, Fashion, Health, Phone, Mobile Phone, One Laptop Per Child, Technology, ict4d, Cell Phone, Impact News

As the mHealth hype grows the focus upon what ideas will lead to actual solutions cannot be lost. Ambition will lead to innovations, but poorly constructed ideas will lead to miserable failures.

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WATCH: Celebrate The Technologies That Aid Moms In Need

Kate Otto | Posted 03.18.2012

As Americans gather on Sunday to honor our mamas, we should also be celebrating "MAMA," a new global health initiative launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

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On International Women's Day: New Promise for Empowering Women

Ward Cates | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, HIV Prevention, Women's Empowerment, Microbicides, Mhealth, International Women's Day, Mwomen, Women's Day, Home News

Winning the fight to empower women will require all of us with an interest in global health and development to bring adequate resources, smart and coordinated strategies, and our total commitment to HIV-prevention.

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Rockefeller Foundation President: Evolution and Promise of Social Innovation

Rahim Kanani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Finance, Philanthropy, Social Innovation, Mhealth, International Development, Rockefeller Foundation, Ngos, Impact News

Recently, I sat down with Dr. Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, to discuss, in great depth, the evolution and promise of social innovation.

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Cory Booker's Blizzard: A Prediction for Global Health Prosperity in 2011

Kate Otto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Childcount+, DataDyne.Org, Cory Booker, Ict, Instedd, Mhealth, Dimagi, Global Health, Health Systems, Ehealth, New Years Resolutions, Medic Mobile, Frontlinesms, Openmrs, Impact News

Newark Mayor Cory Booker's success in handling last week's blizzard fuels the optimism with which I predict global health prosperity in 2011.

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Dean Julio Frenk of Harvard's School of Public Health on Global Health, International Crises, Women and Girls, and Much More

Rahim Kanani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Global Health, Mhealth, Bill Gates, Ngos, Julio Frenk, Women and Girls, Harvard, Gender Violence, Technology, World News

A big part of what we do in academia is not just solve a problem or answer a question; we are very, very actively involved in formulating the questions and framing the problems. Science is a way of looking at the world, a fundamental way of interpreting reality.

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Overcoming Barriers with Electronic Connectivity

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Where we no longer must allocate the time and resources to go physically to all corners of the earth -- Facebook, Skype, our email takes us there.

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Connectivity Is Key To Social Change

Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2011

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In the spring I travelled to Barcelona for the GSM Association's World Congress, with 49,000 participants spread between mobile phone-related 1,300 ve...

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The Impact of Cell Phones on Psychology, Community, Culture, Arts and Economics

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mhealth, Cell Phones, Sms, Gps, Noah Samara, Psychology, XM Radio, Pakistan, Berlin, University of Southern California, Eric Schmidt, Arts, App, Kosta Grammatis, China, Iran, Jim Luce, Grand Theft Auto, Russia, Refugee Programs, Millennial Generation, Barcelona, Florie Brizel, Google, IsraelSun.Com., Fortune 500, Germany, World Space, Africa, Economics, GSM Association, Jerusalem, Laurent Hoffmann, Peace Building, Mobile Telephony, Community, Skype, Apurv Mishra, Cellular Towers, Brazil, Haiti, Mobile World Congress, Culture, TED Fellow, American Idol, Deutsche Telekom, Big Brother, Mobilology, Mbanking, Meducation, palomar5, Business News

To harness power, one must first acknowledge power. To some people, the ubiquitous cell phone is still 'just' a phone. To others, it is so much m...

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World Health Day: Mobile Technology Revolutionizes Healthcare Delivery In Developing World

Huffington Post Contributor | Dr. Daniel J. Carucci | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Developing World, Health Care Systems, United Nations Alliance, Health Workers, World Health Day, Millenium Development Goals, Third World, Contagious Diseases, United Nations Foundation, Technology in Developing World, World Health Organization, Healthcare, Mhealth, World News

In places where there are few cars, where roads remain unpaved, where basic infrastructure services such as clean water and electricity are scant, mob...

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