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How Mobile Apps Could Transform Rural Health Care

Clara Ritger | Nextgov | November 11, 2013

Rural residents seek services from primary care doctors and emergency rooms, which works if the patient doesn't have a chronic or life-threatening condition. But when they do, rural patients don't always have access to the most comprehensive care. [...] Read More »

How VA Is Driving Telemedicine

Adam Mazmanian | FCW | February 13, 2014

Telemedicine, or the broader term telehealth, allows patients to receive medical examinations from primary care physicians, consult with specialists, participate in one-on-one psychotherapy or counseling, and share diagnostic information using videoconferencing and other electronic communications tools. It has mainly been used to reach those who live in rural areas, but its influence is spreading. Read More »

Hundreds Of Thousands Of Medicare Recipients To Lose Telehealth Services

Eric Wicklund | Healthcare IT News | March 29, 2013

Realignment of census lines moves Medicare beneficiaries from rural to metropolitan Read More »

Indian Health Service Solving e-Health Challenges With Help From VA

Sean McCalley | Federal News Radio | October 8, 2012

The Indian Health Service's electronic health records system is getting an upgrade. And it's following the same joint EHR plan as the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Department. Read More »

Indian Hospitals Could Show U.S. Hospitals How To Save Money Without Cutting Quality

Vijay Govindarajan and Ravi Ramamurti | The Washington Post | November 1, 2013

No matter how the fight over Obamacare shakes out, the biggest challenge facing U.S. health care will remain reducing costs while improving quality of care and access for patients. The experience of a few innovative Indian hospitals may point the way forward. Read More »

Inside Google’s Innovative African Broadband Trial

David Meyer | GigaOM | July 3, 2013

Google is involved in a groundbreaking trial of “white space” technology, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa. Just a few months in, it’s already making a real difference for local schools. Read More »

Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Extend Emergency Care Coverage For Veterans

Press Release | PoliticalNews.me | October 31, 2013

U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono, Jerry Moran (R-KS), Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and Mark Begich (D-AK), members of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, announced new legislation this week to help extend emergency care coverage for veterans. Read More »

Ken Banks and FrontlineSMS: How 'Reluctant Innovators' Offer Hope to the World

Ken Banks might, in some respects, be described as a reluctant innovator. In 2005, he created FrontlineSMS, a simple piece of software that enables a cheap laptop to use a mobile phone to send, receive and collate group text messages, effectively creating a communication network. It’s an idea that has helped many NGOs connect with isolated populations.

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Labor Dept. $500 Million Community College Grants Include Health IT

Bernie Monegain | Government Health IT | September 20, 2012

The Department of Labor released $500 million in grants to community colleges and universities around the country for the development and expansion of training programs, including for health IT and other healthcare programs in rural areas. Read More »

MfarmerSMS Service Links Farmers To Better Markets In Nakaseke- Uganda

Peter Balaba | FrontlineSMS | March 14, 2013

The MFarmer SMS service [...] helps farmers in rural areas to connect with better markets. It encourages two-way feedback with farmers, buyers and agro-processors, and other service providers. The project is designed to help farmers access agricultural market price information and weather information through their mobile phones. Read More »

mHMtaani: US-Supported Program Empowers Community Health Workers Through Mobile Technology

Jonathan Rucks | Frontline Health Workers Coalition | August 8, 2013

In places like the Deep Sea Slum of Nairobi, Kenya, the dangers associated with pregnancy and child birth are not to be taken lightly. Read More »

Mobile Data: How Phones Help Keep The Water Flowing

Zarah Rahman | National Geographic | February 13, 2013

We often don’t associate the problem of water scarcity with mobile phones but, as Zarah Rahman of the Aquaya Institute explains, water is about much more than turning on a tap. [...] Read More »

Mobile Learning: How Smartphones Help Illiterate Farmers In Rural India

Hendrik Knoche | National Geographic | June 5, 2013

Small farmers are some of the most important people in the world – as Hendrik Knoche explains in today’s ‘Digital Diversity’, they provide over half of the world’s food supply. Helping such farmers improve their methods through innovative and efficient agriculture has long been an aim of development projects [...]. Read More »

Mobile Phones And Economic Development In Africa

Jenny C. Aker and Isaac M. Mbiti | Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) | June 1, 2010

Sub-Saharan Africa has some of the lowest levels of infrastructure investment in the world. [...] Yet access to and use of mobile telephony in sub-Saharan Africa has increased dramatically over the past decade. Read More »

Moving Towards Transformational TeleHealth At Intermountain Healthcare

Mark Hagland | Healthcare Informatics | June 1, 2013

Wesley Valdes, D.O., telehealth services director at Intermountain Healthcare, sees the future of telehealth Read More »