UN, Vodafone and Rockefeller launch mHealth Alliance
The Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Foundation – three of the leading foundations involved in global health, technology and humanitarian assistance – have banded together to create the Mobile Health Alliance. The new mHealth Alliance will work to maximise the impact of mobile health, especially in the developing world. Terry Kramer, […]
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Vodafone invests in mobile health firm
Newbury, Berkshire-based, mobile phone giant Vodafone has invested in t+ Medical, a UK provider of mobile health services acccessed across mobile handsets. Vodafone Ventures Ltd, the corporate venture capital arm of Vodafone Group, has made an undisclosed investment in t+ Medical, which specialises in the use of mobile phone-based to transfer patient biometric data as […]
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UN + Vodafone focus on mHealth
The United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Group Foundation’s Technology Partnership is hosting a conference session looking at how to unlock access to health data and improve healthcare in the developing world using mobile phones. The session is being held as part of the month-long Rockefeller Foundation e-health conference series being held in Bellagio, Italy. “Making […]
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Bedford Hospital uses PDAs to track repair jobs
Facilities and Estates maintenance staff at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust are using PDAs to receive and clear job dockets for repairs and maintenance. The system, provided by TAAP together with Mindworks, takes information from the department’s helpdesk system and sends out job dockets over a Vodafone mobile GPRS network. Staff previously worked with paper dockets […]
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Courage to build
A European framework for interoperability is cruical to the success of e-health across the continent, industry leaders have argued at a high level conference in Malaga.
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Younger people more likely to use mobile healthcare
Younger people are more likely to call NHS Direct on their mobiles than make an appointment to see their GP, a study by Imperial College supported by Vodafone has revealed. The paper, one of several in a series of essays published by Vodafone entitled ‘The Role of Mobile Phones in Increasing Accessibility and Efficiency […]
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PDAs beat pagers for doctor response times, says study
A study published in the open-access journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making has revealed that surgeons at a London hospital whose pagers were replaced with PDAs combined with mobile phones responded to calls more quickly, improving communication between clinicians. A team of surgeons at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, had their pagers replaced with Palm […]
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