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The Wello Smartphone Case Puts Health Data in the Palm of Your Hand
You may already know Wello as a personal training web service we reviewed last year, but now a health-tracking gadget called Wello wants to pull a Facebook Paper and make you forget all about that other Wello. Oh, well. (Sorry.)
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- Health Care
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Turning Africa’s Healthcare Challenges Into Opportunities
Most people are familiar with the problems facing the health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa faces: poor infrastructure, a shortage of healthcare workers, a lack of capacity in the existing workforce and substandard quality to name a few. These problems, coupled with inadequate public sector spending on health, have pushed the private sector to the front in the development of the African health sector.
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- Health Care
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Secrets to a Successful mHealth Campaign
At the Mobile World Congress last week (25 February) I listened to Arjen Swank, business development manager of Text To Change (TTC), discuss the best way to implement a successful mobile health programme in Africa.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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USAID and P&G Kick Off Global Development Alliance to Improve Health in Myanmar
Administrator Rajiv Shah yesterday helped deliver the first liter of clean drinking water under the Global Development Alliance (GDA) between the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Procter & Gamble (P&G) to improve health in India.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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Qualcomm, Vecna Cares, Etisalat, to Promote Maternal, Child Health
Qualcomm Incorporated has announced its partnership with other operators to improve maternal and child health. They include Vecna Cares Charitable Trust, the nonprofit arm of Vecna Technologies; InStrat Global Health Solutions, a turnkey health care solutions provider; Etisalat Nigeria; Nigeria’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA); and Evidence for Action.
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- Health Care
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e-health Centre Soon in Ghatshila Subdivision
The electronic health centre that will commence at Musabani Surda in March has the capacity to diagnose 90 patients each day.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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U.S. Telemedicine Initiative Tackles Diabetes Epidemic in Libya
A Libyan-American steering group has been created to manage local outreach, and get as many retinal cameras into primary care situations as possible.
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- Education, Health Care
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- North Africa & Near East
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The Philippines Rolls Out Telemedicine with TV White Spaces
TV White Spaces will tap unused frequencies between TV channels to deliver data connectivity to further support rural broadband, telemedicine, educational content delivery and to enhance the data gathering capability of the government’s sensor networks.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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