Mobile Phones for Global Health Links (VI)
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Time for some more desk clearing, here are recent items on mHealth, many are worth skimming.
1. Bringing mHealth back to earth, link
2. Using sports to teach about AIDS, climate change and recycling, link
3. Interview with Frontline SMS and Kiwanja.net founder, link
4. mHealth data collection pilot in India – Mobile-SCDRT, link
5. Health Education Response ( HER ), software distributes health information on major topics, link
6. Mobile phone that recognises objects will aid the blind (SeeScan), link
7. Driving mobile activism adoption, Ashoka crowd sourcing ideas, link
8. Another example of learning going South TO north -Text message finds nearest AIDS test center, link
9. MIT Groups Use Mobile Phones To Boost Health in Developing Countries, link
10. Cell phone towers can help predict the next big flood, link
11. How Uganda’s health care problems can end with a phone, link
12. MOH Zambia, UNICEF join with mobile phone companies for Child Health Week, link
13. Harnessing Both Sun and Cell Phone to Close Gaps in Local Health Care, link
14. MTN, Google and Grameen partner in Uganda, link
15. CNN covers EpiSurveyor – weapon against epidemics, link
16. Consortium Collaborates on Mobile Technology for Social Good, link
17. We’ve covered this before, but some early results are back: A mobile phone microscope to diagnose disease, link
Update, add at least one more to the list:
18. Via Pulse + Signal EXCLUSIVE: Video Footage of FrontlineSMS:Medic in Action, link
BONUS:
See #2 the Bamboo Green Concept Phone, link
Is Mayo Clinic leading the way in the US? check out their strategy, link
IBM ploughs $100 million into mobile research, link
Mobile phone chip that diagnoses disease at your bedside ‘available in five years’, link
Mobile phones ‘more dangerous than smoking’, link
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*Previous Links on mHealth*
Mobile Phones for Global Health Link Drop V (May 19, 2009)
Mobile Phone & Development Link Drop (Mar 10, 2009)
Mobile Phones & Global Health III: Ultrasound, Imaging & ECG to Go! (Aug 27, 2008)
Mobile Phones and International Health Links Part II (Aug 3, 2008)
Mobile Phones and Global Health Link Drop (July 28, 2008)

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