mHealth in Low-Resource Settings

Improved adherence and outcomes for pediatric liver transplant recipients by using text messaging

Miloh, Tamir | 2009
  • Author(s): Miloh, Tamir
  • Publisher: American academy of pediatrics (AAP)
  • Pages: 844--850
  • Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, pediatrics, scientific research
The goal of this study was to improve immunosuppressant adherence for pediatric patients with orthotopic liver transplants by using SMS.

Mobile technologies and the holistic management of chronic diseases

Mirza, Farhaan and Norris, Tony and Stockdale, Rosemary | 2008
  • Author(s): Mirza, Farhaan and Norris, Tony and Stockdale, Rosemary
  • Publisher: Sheffield academic
  • Pages: 309--321
  • Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, chronic diseases, heart diseases, developed countries, health services
Ageing populations and unhealthy lifestyles have led to some chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease reaching epidemic proportions in many developed nations. This paper explores the potential of mobile technologies to improve this situation.

Improving care - improving access : the use of electronic decision support with AIDS patients in South Africa

Mitchell, Marc | [ca. 2007]
  • Author(s): Mitchell, Marc
  • Publisher: Harvard school of public health. Department of global health and population. International health systems program
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: information technology, aids, rural health, mobile telecommunication services, south africa
The paper presents an approach to scaling up HIV treatment in settings where doctors are limited. Counselors are equipped with an electronic patient assessment tool that incorporates treatment guidelines into an electronic format running on mobile devices such as PDAs and/or cell phones.

Rural cardiac healthcare system-A scheme for developing countries : proceedings

Mitra, S. and Chaudhuri, B.B. and Mitra, M. | 2009
  • Author(s): Mitra, S. and Chaudhuri, B.B. and Mitra, M.
  • Publisher: Institute of electrical and electronics engineers] (IEEE)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, heart diseases, data transmission, data processing, developing countries, india, bangladesh, pakistan
With heart disease being a major health burden in developing countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the authors discuss a telecardiology system, where the ECG images captured by mobile phone camera are sent to a data extraction and processing unit using Multimedia Message Service (MMS).

Costs of early detection systems for epidemic malaria in highland areas of Kenya and Uganda

Mueller, Dirk H. | 2009
  • Author(s): Mueller, Dirk H.
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: disease control, disease prevention, cost effectiveness, mobile telecommunication services, malaria, uganda, kenya
The paper explores the costs of establishing and running an early detection system (EDS) for detecting and controlling malaria epidemics. An economic costing was carried out from the health service provider's perspective, among other factors considering switching to data transfer via mobile phones.
 

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