Title: Providing healthcare services in rural India : innovative application of mobile technology

Authors: Tiwari, Priyesh

Place: [Auckland

Publisher: Health informatics New Zealand] (HINZ)

Year: 2010

Journal: Health care and informatics review online

Volume: vol. 14, no. 2

PAGE: 3--9

Subject: mHealth in Low-Resource Settings

Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, information exchange, data transmission, health services, india

Abstract: This paper describes a healthcare delivery model based on mobile technology as an information transmission tool between rural patients and centrally located providers, using trained intermediaries as local facilitators, entrepreneurs and health activists.

URL: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.hinz.org.nz/resource/collection/0F09C2E4-7A05-49FB-8324-709F1AB2AA2F/Tiwari_P3.pdf

Document type: E-article