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Mobile health technology is helping to overcome challenges in Africa

10/16/201510/14/2015 Jennifer Goula

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New forms of tech could provide the answer to some of the largest struggles in African healthcare. One of the largest and most complex challenges currently facing Africa is in its healthcare field, but many are starting to believe that a number of the problems that are the most difficult to overcome could possibly be sidestepped through the use of mobile health tech. Africa is home to 15 percent of the global population, but 24 percent of worldwide disease and illness. Unfortunately, despite that fact, it also contains only 3…

Mhealth launched by Vodacom

03/22/201303/21/2013 Jesse Collins

This is the very latest among the company’s Mezzanineware partnership initiatives. Vodacom Group enterprise division, Vodacom Business, has just announced the release of a series of different mhealth initiatives that it has launched alongside Mezannineware in its new partnership with that organization. This new services program is based on a centralized cloud and mobile ecosystem. These new Mezzanine mhealth services from Vodacom give technology and healthcare providers the ability to improve the access to their employees, assets, and clients. These services are provided through real time collection of data over…

The broadening role of mobile commerce and technology in the healthcare industry

05/28/201205/28/2012 Jesse Collins

With the massive penetration of smartphones, mhealth is becoming an important technology. Though mobile commerce is adding a touch of convenience to the healthcare industry in the Western world, mhealth is absolutely revolutionizing the way that care can be provided in developing nations, such as those in Africa. This technology has propelled the ability to access treatment information forward in a significant way. Though it would have been impossible for a woman who was having a difficult labor in a Ugandan village, for example, to have many treatment options available…