Dear colleagues,<br>
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This is a summary copied from HIFA 2015 mailing list. <br>
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The UN, Vodafone, and the Rockefeller
Foundation's mHealth Alliance have launched a 'Mobile health' campaign,
says a news item on the BBC website:<br>
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Science and technology reporter, BBC News, Barcelona - 17 February 2009<br>
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7893849.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7893849.stm</a><br>
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The
UN/Vodafone Foundation Partnership aims to unite existing projects to
improve healthcare using mobile technology, and will 'guide
governments, NGOs, and mobile firms on how they can save lives in the
developing world'.<br>
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'The partnership is now calling for more
members to help in mHealth initiatives..."The biggest problem is
fragmentation of small projects," says Ms Thwaites [head of UN/Vodafone
Foundation Partnership]. "A lot of the work being done on the ground is
NGO- and foundation-led, but let's join those efforts with the
Microsofts and the Qualcomms and the Intels and the Vodafones. There's
a business case for it now; you have to have the experience of the NGOs
on the ground talking to the big corporates out there and creating real
business models, and that's why I think the mHealth Alliance can tackle
that."'<br>
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The Partnership has published a 'groundbreaking' mHealth for Development report, which is available at:<br>
<a href="http://www.bjhcim.co.uk/documents/mHealth_for_Development.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.bjhcim.co.uk/documents/mHealth_for_Development.pdf</a><br>
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The second half of the report contains descriptions of more than 50
projects ranging from eLearning, HMIS, telemedicine and patient-centric
applications. <br>
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Regards,<br>
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Adesina<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Adesina Iluyemi<br>Sustainable eHealth/Telemedicine in Africa<br>Centre for Healthcare Modelling & Informatics<br>University of Portsmouth<br>T: +44 (0)23 9284 6784<br>F: +44 (0)23 9284 6402<br>
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