Tag: mHealth
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Congrats to OpenIDEO challenge winners using MOTECH!
Read moreOpenIDEO along with Nokia and Oxfam recently ran a challenge on maternal health entitled “How might we improve maternal health with mobile technologies for low income countries?” The challenge brief was:
OpenIDEO has partnered with Oxfam and Nokia to explore how mobile technologies can be used to improve maternal health (particularly in pregnancy and childbirth). We’re asking you, the OpenIDEO community, to come up with inspirations and concepts around improving the knowledge and access to maternal health services, specifically where mobile technologies can...
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How Does MOTECH Make Nurses’ Lives that Much Easier?
Read moreJessica Osborn is Business Development Manager MOTECH, at Grameen Foundation Ghana
MOTECH Ghana is an initiative of Grameen Foundation, Ghana Health Service and Columbia University which aims to use mobile technology to improve the quality of antenatal and postnatal care for Ghanaian women and their families. MOTECH has developed an information service called Mobile Midwife which delivers time-specific voice or text messages to pregnant mothers and their partners and families both before and after birth. We have also built a simple java-based app that...
