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Mhealth Alliance headquarters is moving to South Africa

01/28/201401/25/2014 Jesse Collins

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This change in location is meant to help the organization to boost its projects in sub-Saharan Africa. The mHealth Alliance, a global organization that helps to promote mobile health solutions in areas that stand to benefit from it the most, has recently announced that it will be changing the location of its headquarters to South Africa. Until now, the group has always called the United States home. The intention is to change its base in the United States, where it is currently situated with the United Nations Foundation, to South…

Mhealth is being held back in countries with outdated privacy laws

08/23/201308/20/2013 Jennifer Goula

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…

Mhealth pilot study surprises with low healthcare worker uptake

06/13/201306/11/2013 L. Green

The program was run in rural South Africa within a treatment program for MDR-TB with poor participation. An article published in PLoS Medicine has revealed that a new mhealth app designed for healthcare workers who work in a rural South African treatment program for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has failed to generate uptake by those employees. The report indicated that the data gleaned from this pilot could provide important lessons for scaling of these initiatives. The Mobilize mhealth app provided standardization for the tracking and recording of MDR-TB patients through the…

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…