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		<title>IBM, Novartis, Vodafone launch SMS For Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month at the Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit, Vodafone Group CEO Vittoro Colao announced that the carrier was working with pharmaceutical company Novartis on a program called SMS For Life in Tanzania. Vodafone, Novartis and their partner IBM announced the program officially today.
As Colao noted, the program covers some 135 villages (more than 1 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HopePhones: Recycling mobile phones for mHealth overseas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 21:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Josh Nesbit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frontline:SMS founder Josh Nesbit emailed in to let us know he launched an inspired mHealth intiative today: HopePhones. The program encourages everyone to recycle their old mobile phones, which are then sold to raise money to send phones to health workers in developing markets likes Malawi.
According to the HopePhones site, &#8220;When your old phone is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Mobile-powered &#8220;ultrasound phone&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/1494/windows-mobile-powered-ultrasound-phone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of computer engineers at Washington University have developed a medical imaging device by combining a USB-based ultrasound probe with a Windows Mobile smartphone. Microsoft awarded William D. Richard, Ph.D., WUSTL associate professor of computer science and engineering, and David Zar, research associate in computer science and engineering, a $100,000 grant in 2008 to bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the mHealth investment in emerging markets?</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/1481/wheres-the-mhealth-investment-in-emerging-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vital Wave Consulting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Vital Wave Consulting noted that a number of large technology vendors have made investments in mobile health initiatives for developed markets. Vital Wave pointed out that the timing was probably meant to coincide with the U.S. government&#8217;s plan to invest $20 billion into modernizing healthcare. GE and Intel recently announced a joint $250 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vodafone Americas Foundation winners announced</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/1289/vodafone-americas-foundation-winners-announced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology that converts a mobile phone into a compact, high-resolution, handheld microscope; A lensfree imaging platform on a mobile phone that uses digital holograms of bacteria or cells to monitor for disease; a system of wireless devices that tracks and locates survivors trapped by fires and structural collapse.
These three technologies have been selected from among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mRound-up: mHealth and related newsbits</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/713/mround-up-mhealth-and-related-newsbits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Always Innovating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CCMP Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DeParle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EHRs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile clinical assistants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile Marketing Blog re-printed highlights from U.N-Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership&#8217;s head Claire Thwaites&#8217; recent column in Mobile Word Focus Magazine. &#8220;Mobile technology is becoming the most prevalent means of storing and transmitting data in order to improve the health of millions of people,&#8221; she wrote. Revisit our interview with Thwaites&#8217; here.
The New York Times has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford Doc: Why I use Epocrates on iPhone</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/685/stanford-doc-why-i-use-epocrates-on-iphone/</link>
		<comments>http://mobihealthnews.com/685/stanford-doc-why-i-use-epocrates-on-iphone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was quick. I just get finished ranting about how the healthcare industry needs to appreciate (and use) the current doctor-centric iPhone applications already available in the AppStore, and now I discover this: A great video interview just published over at FastCompany.tv in which Stanford University Doctor Andrew Newman explains how and why he uses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MobilizeMRS now FrontlineSMS:Medic</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/642/mobilizemrs-now-frontlinesmsmedic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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The MobilizeMRS team, which was one of the finalists in the Netsquared/USAID mobiles for development challenge last year, is now leveraging the FrontlineSMS platform to &#8220;connect patients and health workers that are remote and isolated from health centers&#8221; in developing markets. The team has big plans to bring their text message-powered solution to some 25 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia lauds mPedigree, med verification app</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/538/forum-nokia-lauds-mpedigree-med-verification-app/</link>
		<comments>http://mobihealthnews.com/538/forum-nokia-lauds-mpedigree-med-verification-app/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forum Nokia announced the winners of its global Calling All Innovators contest, which aims to incentivize the creation of mobile applications that help improve life on the planet: Out of some 1,000 submitted applications a mobile health application from Ghana took second place in the Emerging Markets category. mPedigree, from Ghana, lets users send a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: U.N.-Vodafone and mHealth Alliance</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/520/interview-un-vodafone-and-the-mhealth-alliance/</link>
		<comments>http://mobihealthnews.com/520/interview-un-vodafone-and-the-mhealth-alliance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[emerging markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[malaria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We really see such a huge opportunity here,&#8221; said Claire Thwaites, head of the Vodafone Foundation and United Nations Foundation partnership. &#8220;There are 2.2 billion mobile phones in emerging markets and such a low number of PCs [only 305 million]. The number of healthcare workers and hospital beds are very, very low too. Mobile networks, [...]]]></description>
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