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13 January 2012 - Call for Papers
International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
mHealth: Health Service Delivery Opportunities and Implementation Challenges
The main focus of this special issue will be to produce evidence-based best practice guidelines for m-Health, identify opportunities to improve health outcomes and strengthen health systems, and highlight the challenges and barriers that are hampering m-Health wide-scale implementation and sustainability. Deadline: 23rd March 2012. Read more...
15 December 2011 - KIT Project Update
Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), TextToChange, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)
Data and Image Transfer Using Mobile Phones to Strengthen Microscopy-Based Diagnostic Services in Low and Middle Income Country Laboratories
This article summarizes the findings of a feasibility study in Uganda. Microscopy images were captured on mobile phones, relaying them to a central review website and feeding back to the sender. The system was deemed feasible and of potential benefit in resource poor settings.
9 November 2011 - KIT Project Update
Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Ministry of Health & Sanitation, Medical Research Centre, TextToChange
Maternal & Newborn Health in Sierra Leone
The aim of the project was to assess the feasibility of introducing and operating selected mobile communication technologies for improved provider-initiated communication on maternal and newborn health in a fragile health system in resource-poor community and health system settings. Read more...