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Mobile Health Care

Improving Maternal Health Care, One Text At A Time

Sharon K. D’Agostino | Posted 05.21.2013 | Impact
Read More: Johnson and Johnson, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action, Babycenter, Millenium Development Goals, Mobile Health Care, Mobile Phones Africa, Global Motherhood, Save the Children, Women and Childbirth, Jnj-Global-Motherhood, text4baby, Infant Mortality, State of the World's Mothers Report, Impact News
Sharon K. D’Agostino

During her pregnancy, every expectant mother has bright hopes for the new life she carries. She may have concerns about her ability to care for a newborn. But depending on where she in the world she lives, her fear may be much deeper and more fundamental: "Will my baby survive childbirth?" Or, "Will I?"

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Could Your Smartphone Save Your Life?

Morgan Reed | Posted 04.30.2013 | Technology
Read More: Health IT, Mobile Health Devices, Mhealth, Mobile Health, Internet-Protocol, Mobile Health Care, Mobile Apps, Apps, Technology News
Morgan Reed

What makes medical apps truly revolutionary is that they use internet-enabled smartphones and tablets to connect us directly to our family physicians and medical professionals.

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

Dr Layla McCay | Posted 05.21.2012 | Healthy Living
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
Dr Layla McCay

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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WATCH: Celebrate The Technologies That Aid Moms In Need

Kate Otto | Posted 03.18.2012 | Impact
Read More: Motech, Usaid, India, Tim Wood, Mhealth, Mother's Day, Grameen Foundation, Mobile Solutions, UN Foundation, Mobile Health Care, Unf, Ghana, Innovation, Global Motherhood, Maternal Health, Mama, Jennifer Potts, South Africa, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action, Healthunbound, Bangladesh, Maura O'Neill, mHealth Alliance, Video, Impact News
Kate Otto

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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Tapping Consumer Minitrends: Predictions for 2011

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Micro-Inverters, Mobile Banking, Mobile Health Care, Mobile Phones, Amazon Kindle, Medical Apps, U.N. Foundation, Project Masiluleke, SMS Banking, Emerging Markets, Mobile Readers, Solar Energy, Africa, E-Readers, Minitrends, Small Business America, Business News
Marian Salzman

A trend's growth factor depends, like all things do, on timing: Is the right technology in place in the right hands for a tech trend to take off? Or, if it's a new product or service, has it hit the price-point sweet spot in such a way as to get a handle with the right number of the right people?

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