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"Game On" Against Cancer Developed by HopeLab, the video game, "Re-Mission", helps youths and adolescents battling cancer become more compliant with their treatments. Research suggests the game improves awareness and efficacy towards cancer, and an increased likelihood of self-care.
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HopeLab
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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"Scoping" out better health on a cell phone UCLA researchers are developing a lens-free imaging device that can be affixed to a cell phone and used for medical diagnostics in developing countries.
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UCLA Electrical Engineering Department, Ozcan Research Group
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Public and Population Health
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3 Steps to Sales Success 3 steps enable sales success in low income communities by providing unique elements to those that don’t have access to training and or employment. The services include micro-health insurance sales, sales force development, employer group sales, physician and hospital contracting, network development, and project management in Liberia, Guinea, Tanzania, Namibia, and the USA.
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Brian
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Product and Service Financing
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A "car part" incubator for the developing world In parts of the world where infant incubators and scare and unreliable, one developed with spare car parts in mind may be the answer.
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Design that Matters
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Public and Population Health
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A Blue Wavelength Light Can Make a Newborns Life Bright Developed by Design that Matters, low-cost phototherapy helps treats jaundice in newborns and prevents neurological disease.
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Design that Matters
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Public and Population Health
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A Catalyst for Global Health - Affordable Point-of-Care Specimen Processing This program provides affordable and accessible viral RNA and molecular Diagnostics, for diseases such as HIV, dengue and influenza. The program is a viral RNA Extraction and Stabilization Platform for Low-Resource or remote settings.
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PATH
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Public and Population Health
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USA
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A Decision-Support Platform for Better Nutrition Usable Health is a wellness and disease management organization that Improves health, while reducing costs associated with chronic illness, obesity, diabetes and coronary artery disease.
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Usable Health
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Public and Population Health
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A Home-based Urine Test for Clinical Malaria Malaria persists as a major public health problem, claiming a global toll of 247 million clinical cases and nearly 1 million deaths per year This diagnostic test for clinical malaria using a urine sample has many advantages over current diagnostic methods, potentially offering a tool for epidemiological monitoring.
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Fyodor Biotechnologies, Inc.
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Public and Population Health
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USA
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A hospital curtain that can help cure what ails you Special hospital curtains filled with nature imagery can positively affect patient mood and accelerate healing, studies show.
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Sereneview
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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A New Design in Safe, Affordable and Accessible Female Contraceptive Developed by PATH, the SILCS Diaphragm overcomes obstacles that have limited the use of traditional diaphragms and dramatically increases access to a safe and reliable contraceptive.
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PATH
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Public and Population Health
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A Novel System for Electronically Confirming Adherence to Tuberculosis Therapy Poor adherence during oral tuberculosis treatment leads to treatment failure and drug-resistance. Directly observed therapy (DOT) confirms therapy, but is resource-intensive and time-consuming. Proteus Biomedical uses an edible sensor and small detector worn on the torso as a novel approach to improve outcomes.
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Proteus Biomedical, Inc.
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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A Personalized Health & Nutrition Advisor An easy to use health and nutrition guide, personalized to an individual's unique health conditions, risks diet, allergies preferences and goals.
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Personal Remedies, LLC
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Public and Population Health
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A Public Health Program Oriented to Highly Mobile Indigenous Populations See how Costa Rica is aiding the health needs of an indigenous population that suffers from extremely poor health conditions, social and cultural exclusion, poor economic resources and lack of access to education
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Costa Rica
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Public and Population Health
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A Retail Clinic In a Box Where standard home diagnostic tests can produce results that are confusing and difficult for clinicians to verify, QuickCheck Health's technology is simpler to understand and results can be verified online. It also aims to dramatically-reduce the cost of diagnostic testing.
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QuickCheck Health
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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A Simple mhealth tool for tracking symptoms A smartphone-based method of tracking and reporting chronic disease symptoms between office visits.
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Self Health Mobile
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Accessible and Affordable Musculoskeletal Care Musculoskeletal disorders and diseases are the leading cause of disability and disease in the U.S. and account for more than half of all chronic conditions in people over 50. Learn how Anamatix uses web-based solutions to improve patient care while reducing costs.
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Anamatix
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Product and Service Financing
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Adapting a smartphone to diagnose cataracts Cataracts are the world’s leading cause of blindness. CATRA uses a snap-on eyepiece and a smartphone to provide an inexpensive and efficient method of diagnosing the eye disease.
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MIT Media Lab
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Aero Ear Curette
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AeroLib
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Affordable Health Insurance for the Developing World MicroEnsure is the world's first insurance intermediary dedicated to serving the poor in the developing world with an appropriate and affordable range for insurance products
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MicroEnsure
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Product and Service Financing
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Affordable Point of Care, HIV-1 Test for Infants Infant testing in rural village is expensive and time-consuming. This point -of-care test developed at Northwestern University analyzes the blood with a device that can be powered by a car battery.
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Northwestern University
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Public and Population Health, Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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amcare-diabetes management (mHealth Platform for Chronic Disease Management) Telemedicine Reference Center, LTD. (TRCL) established the world's first 24/7 call center manned by licensed physicians in Bangladesh.
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Telemedicine Reference Center Ltd.
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Bangladesh
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An Aggressive Diabetes Care Model in Texas’ Lower Rio Grande Valley With wireless blood pressure, patient outreach, weight/glucose information, caring for health is more cost effective and convenient for all patients, and diseases.
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VirtualHealthCheck.com
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Public and Population Health
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An innovation to provide quality eye care services for the rural poor in Bangladesh
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Grameen Children Eye Hospitals
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Public and Population Health
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An Innovative Online Platform for Funding and Developing New Technologies An innovative online platform for emerging technologies, Kopernik reaches developing countries where technology is most needed and allows the public help to decide which products get funded for development.
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Kopernik
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Product and Service Financing
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Anamatix - Convenient Musculoskeletal Care Without the Expensive Doctor Visits Anamatix patented musculoskeletal care system advances the current health care paradigm, providing consistent, personalized, accessible, clinical care that is offered on a flexible, user-dictated schedule and at a tremendous cost savings to payers, providers, employers and patients with enhanced compliance and patient outcomes.
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Anamatix
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Public and Population Health
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Aravind, India- Complete Eye Care Solution at Low Cost Applies to mass marketing and industrial engineering to create a model combining high service volumes and quality with a low cost innovation to sustainability. 70% of Aravind patients receive care for free. This helps the low accessibility to eye care for blind patients in India, specifically for those in rural areas.
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International Partnership for Health Care Delivery
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Public and Population Health
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Blocking Innate Immune Receptors: Possible Approach for Chronic Inflammation Treatment One macrophage activation pathway that is believed to contribute to the pathology of chronic inflammation is the production of superoxide anion via the NADPH oxidase enzyme complex.
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Abu Dhabi University
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: Educating Young Women To Be Nurses in Bangladesh
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The Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Bringing health through a fortified yogurt and distributed by local communities
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Grameen Danone Foods
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Public and Population Health
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Bringing Women's and Children's Nutrition to the Forefront of Agriculture This is USAID Global Health Bureau flagship project on infant and young child nutrition. It aims to prevent malnutrition for mothers and children during the critical time from pregnancy until two years of age. It is led by PATH in collaboration with CARE, The Manoff Group, and University Research Co., LLC.
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Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project (USAID)
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Public and Population Health
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Can a (safe) water market creation at the “base of the pyramid” solve the arsenic contamination problem in a Bangladesh village?
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Grameen Veolia Water Ltd.
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Public and Population Health
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Care Connection Connecting you to the Care you need Connects patients to their primary care team through the transitioning phase of their care continuum. This keeps patients connected by providing higher quality, multi-focused care and reducing unnecessary medical service expenses. A team of registered nurses and clinical coordinators work together as the resources managing for their patient.
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Lifetime Health Medical Group
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Care Management Organization, U.S. –Tele-monitoring Solutions Raise Quality, Lowers Cost. The elderly population has a high incidence of expensive chronic illness which requires daily management with the help of remote technologies. Care management organization monitors the chronically ill and elderly. The cost care for each patient is reduced by 35%. This enables the patients to remain healthy and are given better quality of life with fewer trips to the hospital.
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International Partnership for Innovative Health Ca
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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CarePartner Model for Disease Management Support The University of Michigan is developing strategies for using widely-accessible information technology to support disease self-management and improve access to clinical follow-up. The CarePartner program includes regular automated telephonic assessment and behavior change calls to patients, with immediate feedback about health and behavioral problems.
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University of Michigan
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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USA
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CATCH-ing Childhood Obesity Before It Leads to a Life-long Condition Forty two percent of Texas fourth graders and 36 percent of eight-graders are overweight or obese. Funded by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) is a widely implemented school-based health promotion in the United States that targets major individual and environmental influences of behavioral change.
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Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
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Public and Population Health
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CellScope: Telemicroscopy for Disease Diagnosis By fitting a microscopy attachment to a conventional cell phone, CellScope is extending telemedicine to developing countries to dramatically improve diagnosis or tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases.
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University of California, Berkeley
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Public and Population Health
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CFW Clinics: Increasing Access to Life-Saving Medicines through Business Format Franchising Child and Family Wellness Clinics (CFW) are helping to address a public health crisis where 30,000 children each day lack access to high-quality essential medicines and basic health care. See how.
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HealthStore Foundation
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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USA
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CFW Shops, Africa- Franchised Network of Pharmacies Tackle Big Killers A network of franchised clinics with aim of providing essential, good quality medicine for most common and serious diseases in Africa. 70% of childhood illness are preventable. With this primary care delivery, they can be avoided. The model is based on a set of criteria consisting of rules/protocols with intensive training courses, central procurement operations, and monitoring and recording systems.
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International Partnership for Innovative Health Ca
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Public and Population Health
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CholerID: Cholera Surveillance of Drinking Water in the Developing World The Department of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University is developing a technology that will facilitate rapid analysis of cholera contamination in water supplies prior to consumption.
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North Carolina State University
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Public and Population Health
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Clean Energy Enterprise in Action E+Co aims to reduce the impact of climate change and energy poverty via services and capital in small and growing clean energy enterprises.
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E+Co
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Public and Population Health
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Consumer Reports Hospital Ratings: Launching Consumer Reports Mobile Health Applications Consumer Reports Health is releasing its first mobile health app for iPhone and iPad, allowing consumers mobile access to its hospital ratings. This follows the launch of a portfolio of Consumer Reports apps developed for iPhone users, including CR Mobile Shopper.
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Consumer Reports Health
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Crouse Hospital Lung Partners Primary Respiratory Care The goal of Crouse Hospital is to improve lung health and the quality of life for patients. The hospital focuses on weaning off and accessing the need for outpatient oxygen. The physicians educate on home action plans and self management tools, as well as rescue medications and self administration inhaled pharmaceuticals treatments. This is 90% education and 10% intervention.
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Catholic Relief Services
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Design a Community Cognitive Health Program Discover the step-by-step process by which Rockland County New York's Mental Health Association created a cognitive fitness program for older residents, implemented it, and created a research protocol, training manual for professionals, caregivers and older adults to improve and strengthen memory, driving skills and more, toward an increased abilty to "age in place." Strategies for effective public, private and governmental coalitions for low cost service delivery revealed.
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Generation Bold
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Public and Population Health
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Design for Chronic Illness: exploring service systems & new technologies for people with type 2 diabetes Services systems and technologies designed to create a social support intervention of patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes
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MAYA Design
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Public and Population Health
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Diagnostics & Medicines at Villages Doorsteps See how the Health Management Research Institute (HMRI) is uses mobile health units to dramatically improve care delivery to populations that do not have easy access to medical facilities.
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HMRI
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Hospitals and Health Delivery, Public and Population Health
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Disposable Stethoscope Protection
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AeroLib
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Education and Prevention Outreach Programs and Rural Primary Healthcare Clinic A sustainable education program, training rural Ugandans for preventive health care based on the community of local volunteers. Averages of 50 patients per day visit the clinic. The clinic provides vaccinations, treatment for malnutrition, clean water, family planning, and other common disease solutions.
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Soft Power Health
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Effectiveness of a wireless intervention program for pain and symptom monitoring in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease. This study examines how the use of a smartphone to access an electronic diary can aid youths in reporting pain and symptoms from sickle cell disease (SCD).
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UCLA School of Nursing
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Empowering Health Care to Transcend Time and Terrain See how The Health Management Research Institute's (HMRI) telemedicine service develops a point of care, user-friendly, cost-effective, integrated multi-functional device for rural telemedicine applications with emphasis on general physician functionality.
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HMRI
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Empowering the Patient: Pfizer’s Disease and Care Management Programmes for Management of Patients With Chronic Conditions See how the disease and care management programmes aim to empower individuals to make positive changes to the way they manage their health.
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Pfizer
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Engaging Undergraduates to Solve Global Health Challenges: A New Approach Based on Bioengineering Design Students learn to solve real global health challenges using engineering design process. They find solutions for real world international health challenges such as new technologies that reference both social and scientific issues. An example of the past projects are the diagnostics lab in a backpack, low power medicine refrigeration, warming crib, and the portable low-power pulse ox meter.
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Rice 360
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Enhancing the Standard of Family Practice in Turkey Although, the current curriculum for family medicine in Turkey aims to produce graduates who are proficient in the management of common health problems and provide timely emergency surgical and obstetric interventions, a survey showed that residents claimed that this curriculum was insufficient for actual needs.
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Akdeniz University
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Faster reporting, reducing errors, and creating a community record: Improving OVC programming with mobile reporting. From 2004 to 2010, there was 37,749 vulnerable children, who were provided efficient services because of the improved data collection through mobile phones versus the standard pen and paper method. This is used a tool to collect and transmit beneficiary data to a server accessible using a web interface.
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Catholic Relief Services
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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FMIA: A Rapid, Multiplexed, High-throughput Membrane Immunoassay for Serodiagnosis of Febrile Illnesses for Low Resource Settings A platform to detect typhoid fever. Diseases such as malaria, dengue, measles, spotted fever, and typhoid share similar, overlapping symptoms, which need immediate diagnosis. This is a cost effective multiplexed assay alternative to ELISA testing in low resource settings. The results can be quantified using a scanner or webcam.
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University of Washington
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Focused Impedance Method (FIM): An innovative simple electrical measurement system with potential in psychological study and in diagnosis
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University of Dhaka
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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GE Healthcare's Vscan Potentially Redefines a Patient's Physical Exam GE Healthcare's VscanTM is a pocket-sized visualization tool developed to provide physicians with imaging capabilities at the point-of-care.
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GE Healthcare
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Geared to Reach Out to 80 Million People and Beyond See how The Health Management Research Institute's (HMRI) helpline is improving health care though a service that handles 1.5 million calls per month.
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HMRI
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Public and Population Health
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Getting Better Together: Shared Medical Appointments A 90 minute group patient visit with 8-12 patients sharing an in depth medical experience provided with their own primary care provider or specialist. This meeting is supported by a documenter, a behaviorist, a nurse/medical assistant. The goal is for the patient to receive more information than they normally would in typically quick appointment at the doctor’s office.
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Harvard Van Guard Medical Associates Atrius Health
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Greenstar, Pakistan- Social Impact Through Branding The goal is to improve awareness of family planning and increase access to contraceptive products. Pakistan has above average fertility rate, as a result, more child and maternal mortalities. This private sector health care system provides counseling and family planning advice, affordable contraceptives, and public education services.
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International Partnership for Innovative Health Ca
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Public and Population Health
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Harnessing the power of human milk to fight infectious diarrhea in infants, travelers Worldwide, infectious diarrhea is responsible for approximately 20 percent of all mortality in children under the age of 5, and for an estimated 2 million deaths annually. In addition to directly causing illness and death, diarrhea contributes to mortality from other diseases in children, including malnutrition and malaria. Through utilizing the properties human milk, Gylcosyn is developing additives that can save lives and improve health for millions around the globe.
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Gylcosyn, Inc.
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Health Care at My Fingertips Stony Brook University is combining electronic medical records, hand-held portable ultrasound diagnostics, e-health technology and community health workers to improve access to care in Kenya.
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Stony Brook University
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Public and Population Health
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Health Care Technology For the Future An array of low-costs health innovations from the Department of Biomedical Physics & Technology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Public and Population Health
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Heart To Go: Turning a Commodity Smartphone into a Mobile Cardiovascular Diseases Real-Time Monitoring Apparatus Developed at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Heart To Go is using the smartphone at a monitoring device to help patients monitor a disease that is a No. 1 global killer, accounting for 30 percent of deaths worldwide.
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University of Pittsburgh
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Public and Population Health
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High Quality and Affordable Maternal Healthcare LifeSpring Hospitals offers high quality maternal health care at an affordable price for low-income women and children in India LifeSpring Hospitals is an expanding chain of maternity hospitals that fills the void of high quality maternal healthcare for India’s lower income population.
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LifeSpring Hospitals
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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High-Quality and Accessible Care in Community Hospitals This report is not an attempt to show that community hospitals should perform EP device implants. Rather, we have described our system and objectively analyzed our outcomes to demonstrate that a focused community hospital electrophysiology team can develop an EP program with exceptional outcomes.
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Good Samaritan Health System
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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USA
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Hitching a ride with Coca-Coca for health Coca-Cola travels virtually everywhere in the world. Colalife goes along for the ride to dispense health care supplies to regions in need.
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Colalife
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Public and Population Health
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HMRI, India-Call Center and Medical Convoys at Low Cost Mobile medical unit visits each village twice a month focusing on pre/post natal and chronic diseases. They provide video conferencing diagnosis and treatment for acute ailments. With a high rate of customer service satisfaction at a low cost.
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International Partnership for Innovative Healthcar
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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House Visits in an Emerging Economy With the use of web cam enabled laptop, wireless internet data, and dedicated telemedicine software, a teleconsultant interacts with patients from the comfort of their home through video conference. The advantages are that it is patient friendly, economical, time saving, and the avoidance of any physical discomfort that would normally occur from traveling.
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Apollo Hospitals
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Imperial College of London takes on global health innovation With two centre's and six forums dedicated to improving global health care, the Institute for Global Health Innovation looks to make its mark on the world in areas such as maternal and child health and infectious disease.
Author: Lord Ara Darzi of Denham KBE; Chairman, Institute
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Institute of Global Health Innovation
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Implementing a high-performing community hospital pacemaker and defibrillator implant program Lebanon Cardiology Associates and Good Samaritan
Highly-performing niche hospitals may offer improved quality care while reducing costs in a community hospitals setting.
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Lebanon Cardiology Associate
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Implementing Telecoaching Population Health Management Program for Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity in Abu Dhabi With the prevalence of diabetes in the United Arab Emirates up to 18 percent and half of the population overweight or obese, almeda GmbH has created a telecoaching program that aims to influence and motivate patients to change their lifestyle, to self-manage their chronic condition in order to prevent complications and to improve the quality of life and to reduce long-term costs.
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almeda GmbH
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Public and Population Health
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Improving transparency in heath care through technology Nyaya Health is constructing a low cost, online technology that promotes transparency is health care delivery, and uses a “wiki” model to do it.
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Nyaya Health
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Product and Service Financing
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India's first Online One stop complete health care solution See India's first online healthcare solutions exchange.
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Mags Healthcare
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Innovation in Health Informatics & Advanced Remote Monitoring With the aging population, the need for remote monitoring applications is exploding and there is an urgent need for specialized training and research programs. The University of Northern Kentucky is building a new specialized training program to provide applied experimental learning using virtual patient-data.
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Northern Kentucky University
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Public and Population Health
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Innovations for Safe Drinking Water in Rural Areas: Disinfection using solar energy and simple gadgets for rainwater collection
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University of Dhaka
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Public and Population Health
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Innovations in Health: The Speaking Book Developed By Books of Hope and directed at areas of poor literacy, Speaking Books provides an innovative, interactive, and influential alternative venue for health awareness. Where one written word fails, one spoken word is worth 1,000.
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Books of Hope
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Public and Population Health
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Innovative Public and Private Financing Mechanisms
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Hygeia Nigeria
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Product and Service Financing
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Integrated Infectious Disease Capacity- Building Evaluation Funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate a cost effective method to build capacity among midlevel health officials in sub Saharan Africa for the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases. Each site is given reliable sources of power, specialized tools, and protocol for the collection of clinical and laboratory data, internet, or mobile phone transmission capacity.
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Accordia
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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IPOD: a community-based rehabilitation program for leprosy cases in India Integrated Prevention of Disability (IPOD) is as an approach for community-based rehabilitation of people affected by leprosy and filariasis. It involves government, community and family to not only improve the health of the disease-affected, but also provide economic opportunities upon their recovery.
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IPE GLOBAL
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Is our Water Driving us to DRINK? This poster examines the issue of contaminated water supplies and further researches the feasibility of using mobile emergency notification systems to keep residents informed of the health risks when water contamination occurs. Based upon the expense of replacing our nation’s water infrastructure, the world-wide drinking water shortage and the incidence of disease in countries which have contaminated water, it is clear that residents should be informed and take precautions until the infrastructure improves.
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Health Project Partners, LLC
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Public and Population Health
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Jamkhed: Comprehensive Rural Health Program Started in 1970 in Jamkhed, Maharashtra, the Comprehensive Rural Health Program aimed to build a hospital accessible to rural people, empower people and communities regardless of caste, race or religion to take health into their own hands, look at overall development of society and not a particular field, make people self-reliable, believe it is a community's responsibility to take care of it’s own and build capacity, skills, and confidence of village people to enable them to participate in and improve the health of the community.
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Comprehensive Rural Health Program
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Public and Population Health
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India
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Lens-less Microscopy on a Cell-phone A new telemedicine microscopy platform that is cost effective and light weight alternative to conventional microscopes. This operates based on digital holography. It is a light-source and optic electric sensor array recording with lens free holograms of micro objects, without using lenses, lasers, or other bulky optical mechanical components.
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UCLA
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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LifeSpring, India- ‘No Frills’ Quality Maternity Care By having a midwife, costs are reduced and utilization can be increased. A high quality, low cost maternal care option available for Indian women who can not afford to travel to a clinic. Serves densely populated areas. By using a midwife, life Spring earns more per month than a private clinic delivery.
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International Partnership for Innovative HealthCar
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Locally developed telemedicine equipment
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University of Dhaka
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Locally Financial Innovation Accelerates Vaccines Development for Zoonosestelemedicine equipment
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Innovative Finance
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Product and Service Financing
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Medical Home First-Contact Call Center in Mexico Due to the high cost of seeing a doctor in rural Mexico and the time consuming efforts, a convenient call center was implemented. The patient subscribe for a flat rate of $5 a month to call the center for health advice and triaging. 62% of calls are resolved over the phone. Calls that cannot be resolved are referred to a physician at a discount.
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International Partnership for Innovative Health Ca
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Men Engaged in Nonviolence, Inc. (MEN) By mobilizing men to help at-risk boys, MEN® achieves the dual objective of preventing youth violence and building the male community.
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Men Engaged in Nonviolence, Inc. (MEN)
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Public and Population Health
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Microfinance and Health Protection The Microfinance and Health Protection (MAHP) initiative aims to develop and test integrated microfinance and health protection products and services that positively impact clients’ lives while being practical and sustainable for microfinance institutions.
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Freedom from Hunger
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Product and Service Financing
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Minute Clinic, U.S.- Fast Access to Basic Care A walk in clinic in a retail environment treating patient ailments. Nurses can prescribe medications with a physician’s oversight. The use of a nurse reduces cost. A convenient, easy, affordable way to treat common health problems/concerns without seeing a doctor.
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International Partnership for Innovative Healthcar
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Mobile Health Information Create and distribute healthcare knowledge to Indian consumers through the convenient access of text messaging, mobile web browser, and interactive digital content. Many Indians do not have creditable health care information. Doctors are too expensive and unavailable. This service provides useful health prevention, wellness, reproductive health, and chronic disease information.
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MDHIL
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Mobile Hospitals for the Underprivileged Based in India, Smile on Wheels operates by taking well-equipped medical van along with specialized doctors, nurses, medical staff, equipments and medicines to the identified villages and slums in a systematic manner.
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Smile Foundation
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Public and Population Health
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Mobile Phone Health Interventions Research Text messaging smoking cessation based on motivation, goal setting, identifying trigger cues, help on demand, and quit buddies. Stub it is a video messaging smoking cessation intervention that uses social cognition theory and observational learning.
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University of Auckland
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Multiplying local doctors' capacity to prevent illness Seventy percent of girls and women in Kenya cannot afford sanitary pads which retail at USD1.02 per packet. During menstruation, they use unhygienic means like old mattresses, traditional leaves and papers, which expose them to infection. Girls are also unable to attend school during their periods. Binti Africa Foundation (BAF) produces affordable sanitary pads which retail at less than $ 1 US per packet for low income, mostly rural populations. Binti sanitary pads have been designed with breathable materials, and hinge around the traditional concept of baby’s napkins. Pads are produced in rural villages by women who, due to the gender burden, are unable to get out of the home to work in income generating activities. Producing the pads in the village setting therefore gives them a chance to improve their income, and creates ownership, which ensures sustainability. Over the past year, Binti sanitary pads have enabled 50% of rural girls in select schools.
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Pesinet
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Hospitals and Health Delivery, Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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France
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Natural Products based Extremely Affordable Health Using simple kitchen technology to reduce the daily dose requirement of any natural product by a factor of 100 to 1000.
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Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
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Public and Population Health
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Nurses' Effort in Establishing Independent Birthing Centre in Nepal The centre's aim is to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity by providing cost-effective continuous maternal health services
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Aadharbhut Prasuti Sewa Kendra (Nurses’ Led Birthing Centre)
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Public and Population Health
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Online One Stop Complete Health Care Solutions India’s First Online One Stop Complete Healthcare Solutions, a web based connection exchange, where multiple healthcare stake holders are connected to each other to provide the convenience of Door Step like Services to the Patients from the Point of Care in an eco-friendly environment.
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Mags Healthcare
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Open Access and Redesign: Implementing Change for your Community Health Center This program comprehends how an open access and redesign model functions, and how this model can be applied in community health centers to improve efficiency and identifies steps required to implement access and redesign in a community health center and to clarify how to execute those steps
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Community Health Center Assoication of CT
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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USA
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Open Date Kit: Modular Open-Source Tools for Mobile Data Collection Using open source tools for mobile data collection to avoid the closed silo-based solutions that have hampered the field.
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University of Washington
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Public and Population Health
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Open Source Telemedicine Moca has created a mobile system allowing medical data (text, images, audio, ultrasound, x-rays) collected by a rural health worker to be transmitted via cell phone to a remote medical specialist for diagnosis, and for incorporation into an electronic medical records.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Hospitals and Health Delivery, Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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USA
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Operation ASHA: Using Biometrics to Prevent MDR TB Biometric monitoring medication delivery and represents a high impact intervention for vulnerable patients suffering from the global emergency of Tuberculosis. It is difficult for patients to travel to the health centre’s and clinics when a lot of time and money is spent accessing medicine. The finger print reader reports to the network computer, then the low cell phone, SMS server. Finally, ending at the database where it is visual for doctors.
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Operation Asha
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Oral Physician: A New Paradigm for Inter-professional Training in Primary Care? Training dentist as oral physicians to provide preventive primary care. They will take on additional responsibilities, such as taking vital signs, diabetes screening, nutrition counseling, smoking cessation, and signs of violence/neglect. It is one year training of general practice dental residents.
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Harvard School of Medicine
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Pediatric Diabetes Ocular Telemedicine Program, Caracas, Venezuela An initiative in Caracas, Venezuela by the Joslin Vision Network demonstrates the value of a tele-health program to diagnose damage to the retina caused by diabetes and develop preventative treatment.
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Paolo S. Silva, MD, Kristin M. Hock, BS, Morella M. Grossmann, Jerry D. Cavallerano, OD PhD, Jennifer K. Sun, MD MPH, Lloyd M. Aiello, MD, Lloyd P. Aiello, MD, PhD, Joslin Vision Network Venezuela Team
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Without Walls: A Middle East Initiative Nearly 10 million children globally under age 5 die each year die from preventable causes. WorldPICU.org will harness the unparalleled reach of the Internet to instantly share critical care resources across the globe and beyond institution walls.
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Children's Hospital Boston; American University of Beruit Medical Center, Beruit, Lebanon
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Pranayama - More Than Just Breathing Pranayama is a yogic science of respiration. The basic principle of pranayama is to supply maximum amount of Oxygen to the body cells through various breathing techniques. In recent years, pranayama has gained attention because of its benefits discovered by many Indian doctors and yoga followers
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Marymount University
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Public and Population Health
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Project ECHO: Extension for Community Health Care Outcomes
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University of New Mexico
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Public and Population Health
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Providing a world class education to anyone, anywhere, for free A free online collection of more than 2,000 videos on mathematics, science, and functioning of the marketplace.
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Founder, Executive Director, and Faculty
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Providing affordable and effective primary health care to rural areas of Bangladesh
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Grameen Kalyan
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Providing Clean Drinking Water with the Tulip Siphon Filter In parts of the world where centralized water distribution and treatment systems are often too complicated of expensive, the Tulip Siphon filter can be employed at the household level, providing an inexpensive method of removing harmful bacteria from the water supply.
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Connect International
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Public and Population Health
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Providing the developing world with access to safe lighting With much of the developing world depending on unsafe and unreliable kerosene lamps for lighting, Nuru Energy provides portable, modular lighting systems, including the NuruLight and Nuru POWERCycle.
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Nuru
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Public and Population Health
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Public–private partnership scenario in the health care system of Pakistan Public–private partnerships (PPP) in basic health services delivery aim to improve service provision, such as better coverage, quality and infrastructure of health care, as well as raising the demand for health by the community. This paper outlines some examples of public–private partnerships in Pakistan and examines barriers to further development of such initiatives. We argue that to meet the challenges of globalization and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, Pakistan needs to improve the health status of its society by promoting and practicing PPP in providing health care services.
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Dr. Faheem Ahmed
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Public and Population Health
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Reducing Avoidable Hospital Admissions for the Underserved and Hard to Reach Populations Pharos Innovations is using an innovative behavior change technology that unifies care coordination and daily patient monitoring at the point of care, which is dramatically improving care in rural communities.
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Pharos Innovations
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Remote Blood Glucose Monitoring in Type-2 Diabetics Using the “Diabetes Connected Health” Web Portal This study examines the impact of diabetes management within a large primary care network using remote, secure-transfer of clinical data via the Internet.
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Center for Connected Health
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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RemoteID: an anonymous, confidential collection and testing methods for HIV RemoteID is a cost-effective, electricity independent remote information tracking and testing technology that enables health workers and educators to capture, upload, retrieve, and aggregate data from remote locations.
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The Triad Trust
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Retrospective clinical Study of the prevalence and frequency and the prevalence of the juvenile periodontitis Developing an understanding of and issuing a hypothesis for the prevalence of juvenile periodontitis.
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Malo Clinic
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Public and Population Health
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Sanitary Health Seventy percent of girls and women in Kenya cannot afford sanitary pads which retail at USD1.02 per packet. During menstruation, they use unhygienic means like old mattresses, traditional leaves and papers, which expose them to infection. Girls are also unable to attend school during their periods. Binti Africa Foundation (BAF) produces affordable sanitary pads which retail at less than $ 1 US per packet for low income, mostly rural populations. Binti sanitary pads have been designed with breathable materials, and hinge around the traditional concept of baby’s napkins. Pads are produced in rural villages by women who, due to the gender burden, are unable to get out of the home to work in income generating activities. Producing the pads in the village setting therefore gives them a chance to improve their income, and creates ownership, which ensures sustainability. Over the past year, Binti sanitary pads have enabled 50% of rural girls in select schools.
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Binti Africa Foundation
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Public and Population Health
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Kenya
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Should Healthcare Professionals Care about Space and Time? The Community Health Department of the Christian Medical College in Vellore, India, used a Geographic Information System (GIS) to enhance the decision and planning cycle in rural community health programs
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Pennsylvania Department of Health
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Public and Population Health
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Study of PDA and smartphone adoption rates at King Saud Medical Complex ( KSMC) Hospitals In light of the importance of successfully using PDA and Smartphone devices worldwide, well-designed research studies are thus, needed to seek information on PDA and smart phones use patterns in local Saudi hospitals.
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Deena
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Sustainable oral health care in rural Nepal
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Eva Nepal
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Public and Population Health
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TB Sputum Collection Procedure Visual Guide The sputum test is the simplest laboratory test for TB, and it’s been in use for over a hundred years. It is very cheap, can be performed in minutes, and is one of the most widely-used TB tests. However, the WHO estimates that it only identifies 35% of patients with active TB. See how Kwikpoint helps.
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Kwikpoint
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Public and Population Health
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Tech, High Touch Genetics a Model Practice Empowering Consumers A clinical genetics service delivery model to employ telephone and web based delivery that overcomes traditional barriers. This empower consumers to partner with their physicians and take control of medical management. It will improve member care and genetic testing cost management.
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Informed Medical Decisions
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Technology Enabled Pro-active Care to "Make Me Healthy" in India In India, the poor living with chronic disease spend a quarter of their income of private care for treatments that only address diseases that have progressed significantly. “Make Me Healthy” has devised a 15-minute, at home health risk assessment that can dramatically improve preventative health.
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Truworth Health
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Public and Population Health
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Technology Solutions for Rural Women Many women living in rural areas die to infection and complications from pregnancy/childbirth. AYZH provides technology solutions for rural women instead of using the traditional birth kit which is uncomfortable, unsanitary, and less convenient.
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AYZH
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Public and Population Health
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The benefits of a paper-based diagnostic tool for HIV detection Through the use of specially-designed paper, the Whitesides Research group is developing a low-cost diagnostic tool that can be used for disease detection – such as HIV, not only in developing countries, but also for military and humanitarian operations where high throughput, low volumes of sample, low cost and robustness are important.
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Whitesides Research Group, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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The benefits of microinsurance in the developing world In portions of the developing world where household incomes range from $2-$10 per day, microinsurance can help pull individuals and families out of poverty.
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Allianz
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Product and Service Financing
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The CD4 Initiative: Developing Point of Care Tests for CD4 for Use in Resource-Poor Countries CD4 tests are important for determining when to initiative specific treatments for AIDS/HIV patients. As traditional testing in complex and expensive – especially in developing countries - the CD4 Initiative uses a point-of-care technology that is low-cost and can be completed in less than 10 minutes.
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Imperial College, London
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Public and Population Health, Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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The effects of altering discharge policies on alternate level of patient care flow
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University of Toronto
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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The Family Van: Health Care on the Move Through Mobile Clinics Using nontraditional health care, with web-portals and mobile clinics, more people can access health care and prevent diseases.
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Harvard Medical School, The Family Van
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Public and Population Health, Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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The Leveraged Freedom Chair: A Developing Country Wheelchair The rugged terrain in developing countries that lack sufficient roadway infrastructure makes it difficult for the use of traditional wheelchairs. The Leveraged Freedom Chair is made from spare bicycle parts, is cost-efficient and can be put to use where the sidewalks end.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Public and Population Health, Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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USA
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The Patient Navigator: Assisting Patients in Managing Chronic Illness The Hope Binder, Patient Navigator and Personal Health Records are helping the Childhood Leukemia Foundation better serve patient and provider needs.
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Childhood Leukemia Foundation
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Public and Population Health
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The predicted cost of anesthesia professional-delivered sedation for colonoscopy and EGD in the United States and the impact of computer-assisted personalized sedation See a potential method of alternative forms of sedation that do not require delivery by an anesthesia professional.
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University of California; Statistical Solutions; Stony Brook University; University of Colorado
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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The Pure Water Bottle: A portable water filtration system for developing countries Using a UV light bulb and a special filter, this purifier can transform water from potentially deadly to drinkable in two minutes.
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Pure Water Technology
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Public and Population Health
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The Rhythm Pad Driving Change in AF Detection A simple screening device similar to a large mouse pad. Within 90 seconds, a simple screening can be done to provide assurance to the patient regarding their current heart performance. This is an ideal system for telehealth cardiac monitoring because of the simple way to analyze cardiac performance, and to predict future heart concerns.
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Cardiocity
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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The Risk of Breast Cancer Among Women Who Start Smoking at Teenagers This Nigerian-Kenyan program examines the effect of smoking on breast cancer risk in a large population-based cohort of women, many of whom started smoking as teenagers.
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Women Action Initiative Against Tobacco, SmokeFree Foundation
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Public and Population Health
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The rolling water container for developing countries In regions where potable water sources are remote and scarce, the Q Drum makes transport significantly easier than traditional methods of transport.
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Q Drum
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Public and Population Health
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The Use of Electronic Health Records in Private Medical Practices Only about 15 percent of U.S. physicians use electronic health records to manage patients health information. See why researchers at Park Point University think there is a need to expand the practice.
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Park Point University
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Hospitals and Health Delivery, Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Tools and Ideas that Save Mother and Newborns One in seven women die every minute due to childbirth, each year is 350-500,000 women around the world. Maternova is a global online marketplace working to help the lives of newborns and mothers. Maternova tracks over 100 low cost innovations to be packed and distributed to scarce populations.
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Maternova
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Public and Population Health
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Transforming Cows into Kilowatts "Cows to Kilowatts" abates water pollution, improves ecosystem health, mitigates greenhouse gas emission and creates cheap source of domestic energy with environmentally safe organic fertiliser from slaughterhouse waste through the installation of sustainable biogas plant.
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Green Globe Trust
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Public and Population Health
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Transforming Rural Health Care with The E Health Point Model The eHP Solution is brining an integrated array of health and wellness services to rural India.
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Healthpoint Services
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Ultra Rice: Expanding markets for fortified rice As a manufactured, micronutrient-fortified grain made from rice flour and then blended into traditional rice, Ultra Rice® offers a culturally relevant and customizable solution to micronutrient malnutrition, particularly for public-sector buyers seeking to meet varying nutritional needs and fortification requirements.
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PATH
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Public and Population Health
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USA
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Universal Symbols for Healthcare Environments Learn how JCR Design worked with an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to eliminate language barriers and improve health care quality for people with Limited English Proficiency through the development of universal health care symbols.
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JRC Design
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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USA
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Use of Cell Phone Technology for Improving Outcome Approximately 80% of data errors have been resolved by cell phone communications. Use of cell phone technology is an important key to conduct a high quality, cost effective, data collection in large populations based on clustered randomized trials. This empowers pregnant women and health care providers with information, support, and access to higher levels of care.
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Use of Mobile Telemedicine for Cevical Cancer Screening This study indicates mobile telemedicine may be useful in improving access of women in remote areas to cervical cancer screening utilizing the VIA ‘see-and-treat’ method.
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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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Using SMSs to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission Cell-Life is developing a free SMS system for cell phones that HIV-positive mothers of infants can use to receive health information and help get infants tested for the illness.
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Cell-Life
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Public and Population Health
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Valencia Region, Spain- Public System Outsources Integrated Care A simple and effective integrated care between primary and secondary care, that uses lower labor costs and smart use of limited competition between regions and hospitals. This private care is a lower cost than the public sector health region.
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International Partners for Innovative Health Care
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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Vision Spring-Eye Care Though ‘Business in a Bag’ There is often no eye care professional in rural areas. This franchise model trains people in rural settings to be entrepreneurs through the “Business in a Bag” model, which provides screenings and sells reading glasses. 95% of the active 6,900 entrepreneurs are women. This enables them to make the much needed income to support their families and experience enhanced social standing as respected health and business leaders in their community.
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International Partners for Innovative Health Care
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Hospitals and Health Delivery
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VK100 Gurukul: Village Internet Kiosk A solar powered broadband connectivity innovation to meet the challenges of remote areas. It started off as a solution for e-education in primary schools and has thus developed into a one stop solution for all other necessities, such as health commerce, enterprise, administration, and government. Some of the major features include; ultra low power, easy to install, and tamper proof.
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SHYAM
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Public and Population Health
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Working to Improve Health Market Performance for Better Health and Financial Protection for the Poor Working to improve health market performance for better health and financial protection for the poor. Provides health insurance services to low-income urban families at below market rates. Connects informal private providers to qualified physicians in urban areas via telemedicine technology.
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Center for Health Market Innovations
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Public and Population Health
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Wound Care Across the Continuum Innovative outcomes has a unique method of improving care of chronic wounds by assigning a case coordinator to patients entering the wound care system. The care coordinator serves as the point of contact for the health care team, following evidenced-based pathways and communicate with the patient and the team as the patient moves through treatment.
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Innovative Outcomes I
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Public and Population Health, Health Care Research / Mobile Health
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