The program’s first year has now successfully been completed and the text messages will continue. The mobile health program that is designed to help pregnant women, and new mothers called the mHealth Tanzania Partnership has now completed its first year and the team behind it feels that it has been an extremely successful launch. The program has already drawn over 300,000 registrants in Tanzania and has been providing effective assistance. The technology behind the program is quite simple, as it offers text messaging that is meant to support and inform…
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Mhealth is being held back in countries with outdated privacy laws
This struggle with national regulations regarding the security of private data – or lack thereof – is becoming a barrier. Although mhealth apps and devices are proving to have a great deal of potential, particularly in countries around the world with a significant rural population and without a large medical services and care system, as is the case in many African nations. The lack of regulations for the governance of patient data privacy, however, is proving troublesome. According to a recent report created by TrustLaw Connect, some patients may begin…
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