Author:Nkosi, MT; Mekuria, Fisseha; Gejibo, SHDate:Jun 2011Healthcare providers are facing growing challenges in patient diagnostics and information gathering due to in-adequate infrastructure and insufficient number of health-care professionals to perform such operations. The traditional way of ...Read more
Author:Ouma, S; Herselman, Martha E; Van Greunen, DDate:Jul 2010Currently within the developing world, there are many ongoing projects and pilot studies in the healthcare sector. However, there is a tendency of developing the m-health (mobile-health) applications without looking into factors that can lead ...Read more
Author:Ouma, S; Herselman, Martha E; Van Greunen, DDate:Nov 2011This paper looks into an overview of the challenges that are crippling the healthcare domain which provide healthcare services to the resource constrained areas in developing nations. It also looks into how mobile devices can be used to provide ...Read more
Author:Hwabamungu, B; Williams, QDate:Oct 2010The penetration of mobile phones and mobile technologies in developing countries has led to innovative developments of various m-Health applications. These applications have proven the potential of mobile technologies for improving the quality ...Read more
Author:Land, Kevin J; Boeras, DI; Chen, X-S; Ramsay, AR; Peeling, RWDate:Dec 2018Lack of access to quality diagnostics remains a major contributor to health burden in resource-limited settings. It has been more than 10 years since ASSURED (affordable, sensitive, specific, user-friendly, rapid, equipment-free, delivered) ...Read more