The Importance of Market Validation for mHealth Interventions - How does the “market” play into mHealth interventions for global health and development? Last week at the mHealth Summit, I had the privilege of attending the panel "From Starting to Sustaining: Models for Low-and Middle-Income Countries". As a social scientist and public health professional, I understand basic math and statistics, but working in a nonprofit environment, business and market value MORE
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The mHealth Planning Guide: Resources Updated - We are pleased to announce that we recently expanded, improved, and updated the Resources Appendix in The mHealth Planning Guide. We reorganized the collection so that it is easier to navigate, and you will find that each section of the appendix is now more comprehensive. In addition to adding more than 25 new publications from 2013 and 2014, we designed a new Publications Matrix that provides a MORE
The Role of mHealth in the Fight Against Tuberculosis - mHealth Alliance Publication. To bring about a step change in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), we need new tools and simple, affordable innovations to better detect people suffering from this disease. Could mHealth be a solution? A new paper from the mHealth Alliance and Stop TB Partnership explores this topic. Washington, DC and Geneva: mHealth Alliance and Stop TB Partnership, May 2012 MORE
The State of Standards and Interoperabilty for mHealth - mHealth Alliance Publication. This report reviews the state of health informatics standards and interoperability with respect to the use of mobile health among low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with the aim of identifying critical gaps and opportunities to support the scale up of mHealth. March 2013 MORE
The Truth About Disruptive Innovation - This blogpost, written by Ken Banks of FrontlineSMS, discusses why it's important to understand the problem before using fashionable mobile technologies. MORE
Tips for Remaking Healthcare: mHealth Summit 2013 - When Eric Dishman, Fellow and General Manager of Health & Life Sciences at Intel discussed the popular perception that hospitals will become obsolete, he got my attention. He also reminded me of one of the keynote speakers from last year’s Summit, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, who talked about healthcare without doctors. This excerpt from my blog about the Summit last year describes Khosla MORE
Total Cost of Ownership Model for CommCare - This is a Total Cost of Ownership Model tool that Dimagi created to help organizations estimate the total cost of adopting CommCare or other mobile technologies for their community health workers. This planning tool provides a budget for adopting CommCare over five years. Why it helps with planning: Excel workbook that serves as a model for how to budget for an mHealth implementation. MORE
Towards a Framework for Realising the Benefits of eHealth in South Africa - The South African national eHealth strategy (2012/2013–2016/2017) includes a strategic priority focused on realisation of benefits. The strategy states that “[s]pecific actions are required to ensure that eHealth implementations deliver on their promise and that anticipated benefits are realised for all stakeholders.”The specific activity highlighted within this priority was the development of “…a MORE
U Report - U-Report is a free SMS social monitoring tool for community participation, designed to address issues that people care about. SMS polls and alerts are sent out to U-Reporters and real-time response information is collected. Results and ideas are shared back with the community. Issues polled include among others health, education, water, sanitation and hygiene, youth unemployment, HIV/AIDS, MORE
Unique Health Identifier Assessment Toolkit - Unique health identifiers are important for improving quality and continuum of care, strengthening surveillance of communicable diseases, eradicating diseases, and optimizing provider and payer transactions in health financing schemes. When they can be uniquely identified, wherever and whenever they interact with different health service providers, patients have a MORE