Delivering workplace wellness via mobile tools
Consumers increasingly link to their social networks, watch sports events, and get news updates via smart mobile devices. So it should not be surprising that mobile tools are likely to play a major role in [...]
Quality Healthcare Through eHealth Platform
ClickMedix’s eHealth platform enables doctors across the world to serve more patients at lower costs, while empowering local health workers to learn from medical experts abroad. Published by Sustainia, April 21 2017 ClickMedix is a [...]
Pathways to Scale: A guide for early-stage global health innovators on business models and partnership approaches to scale-up
RATIONALE FOR THE PATHWAY CHOSEN (pg 16) • While Medtronic had many of the capabilities needed to develop and scale up Shruti iHear, it needed external partners locally to develop a ground level innovation: Once [...]
Digital Health: Heaven or Hell – Better Coordinated Care
Better Coordinated Care Pg. 18 A growing proportion of patients are in contact with a multiplicity of different professionals and agencies with no clearly defined person leading care. Without effective coordination there is a significant [...]
Interviews With Business Call To Action’s ‘Breakthrough SMES’ ClickMedix
The company: ClickMedix The inclusive business initiative: providing affordable and quality health services to under-served populations by connecting patients to doctors through mobile technologies and community-based health providers to achieve continuous healthcare delivery to patients. Social [...]
MIT Sloan’s India Lab Helps Jodhpur School Of Public Health Project On Type 2 Diabetes
BY OUR CORRESPONDENT ON AUGUST 12, 2016MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, NEWS A four-member students’ team from MIT Sloan recently participated in an India Lab action learning project with the Jodhpur School of Public Health to study the [...]
When Women Social Entrepreneurs Collaborate: Big Problems Get Solved – Food Access
Published on Frobes.com JUN 28, 2016 @ 06:07 PM When Women Social Entrepreneurs Collaborate: Big Problems Get Solved By Tara Roberts DC Greens and ClickMedix collaborate to tackle food access challenge On June [...]
MHEALTH TOOLBOX: an interactive, hands-on workshop featuring innovative health devices designed for healthcare providers
Founder of ClickMedix, Ting Shih, served as faculty in the inaugural MHEALTH TOOLBOX workshop, an interactive and hands-on workshops featuring most advanced medical / healthcare devices designed to help clinicians experience and design the future [...]
Promotoras de Salud as Healthcare Coordinators
Partnership with Promotoras de Salud as Healthcare Coordinators Help patients adhere to a complex care plan. Create a therapeutic alliance [...]
Medtronic Shruti Program: Ear Infection Screening and Treatment
In Partnership With Medtronic is a world's largest medical devices company dedicated to contributing to human welfare through the application of biomedical engineering. Patients [...]
New, Cheap, and Improved Assessing the Promise of Reverse and Frugal Innovation to Address Noncommunicable Diseases
Thomas J. Bollyky, June 2015, Council on Foreign Relations (www.cfr.org) This publication is made possible by the generous support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. pg 12-13 R E V E R S E I [...]
Can you hear me now? Medtronic partners with ClickMedix to diagnose and treat ear infections in India
Deafness and hearing loss are two of the most commonly diagnosed health issues faced by patients in the developing world. While about half of all cases of hearing loss can be avoided with effective diagnosis [...]
mHEALTH OPPORTUNITIES FOR NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AMONG THE ELDERY
EXISTING SOLUTIONS: mHealth in NCD interventions Published by mHealth Alliance, UN Foundation and Pfizer, October 2013 MOBILE AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES HAVE CHANGED THE WAY PEOPLE COMMUNICATE AND ACCESS INFORMATION AROUND THE WORLD, and there [...]
5 Ways to Get Paid for Telemedicine in the US
ATA CEO, Jon Linkous: Paying for Telemedicine in the United States Of the $2.8 trillion that constitutes healthcare market in the U.S., there are five primary sources that support almost all telemedicine. All are rapidly [...]
US Health Reform Infographic
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Using Mobile Phones for Cervical Cancer Screening
ClickMedix founder partnered with University of Pennsylvania and Botswana-UPenn Partnership program to pioneer cervical cancer screening using mobile camera phones. *Note: This presentation contains medical images which may be unsuitable for those not accustomed. Using [...]
Telemedicine to Reduce US Healthcare Costs
According to a Bob Spoerl's article, "3 Ways Telemedicine Can Help ACOs Coordinate Care, Cut Costs", he indicated that telemedicine has the following benefits: 1. Telemedicine provides patients an avenue to receive unlimited access to [...]
Case Study in Telehealth Adoption
Partners HealthCare: Connecting Heart Failure Patients to Providers Through Remote Monitoring Andrew Broderick ABSTRACT: Partners HealthCare’s programs in home telehealth have been driven by its Center for Connected Health, which has pilot-tested and implemented telemedicine [...]
Can Telemedicine Innovations Used In Developing Countries Help Save US Healthcare?
Four years ago, I began developing and piloting a system based on the simple concept of using mobile smartphones to facilitate telemedicine in developing countries. What started for me as a project at the MIT [...]
Field Story: Using Smartphones for Maternal/Child Risk Screening in India
- By Ting Shih Society for Nutrition, Education & Health Action (SNEHA http://www.snehamumbai.org) pioneers using smart phones (Android) and ClickMedix mhealth program for maternal/child risk screening in Mumbai, India. It all started with an email... From [...]
Rock Health’s Rocking Startups!
By Ting Shih Rock Health is the world’s premier mobile healthcare (mHealth) incubator. Each team selected, out of hundreds of applicants, receive a 20K USD start-up grant, with NO equity stake taken away from the [...]
Quality Access to All is within Reach.
"Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all." - Nobel Peace Laureate, Professor Muhammad Yunus, father of microfinance and founder [...]
Uganda patients willing to pay for mobile phone-powered teledermatology
By J. Hibler, D.O. Introduction Teaching village pharmacist to use mobile telehealth application Access to dermatologic care in rural Uganda remains a major healthcare problem. The need for timely and cost-effective skin care [...]
ClickMedix showcases mobile health technologies in the Philippines
The Philippines has been trying to bring forth initiatives that address critical shortages of health services all over the country especially in unreachable areas. The increasing number of constituents and the lag experienced [...]
Marelinc: Initial Designs for a Maternal Health Solution for the Philippines
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Fighting Leprosy in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago, June 2011 DR. Kudakwashe Maloney M.D., Dermatologist and Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston Massachusetts wanted to be sure that the problem she saw was real. [...]
Hansen’s Disease Study in Trinidad and Tobago
Reposted from Partners Center of Expertise in Global Health and Community Medicine MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2011 Beyond Biblical Days Kuda Maloney, M.D/MPhil Dermatology Resident Trinidad and Tobago: A feasibility study on the utility of a [...]
The Long Tail Economy in Healthcare: Affordable Care for the Next Billion Through Mobile Technologies
At this TEDx talk in Taipei, I describe first-hand experiences of healthcare around the world and how we can create mobile health (mhealth) economics, based on the long tail concept, in order to provide affordable [...]
3 simple ways to address maternal and newborn mortality.
To paint the current situation in maternal and child health in the developing world, check out this video from Melinda Gates. Please pay special attention to the comments about maternal and newborn health, which is [...]
Maternal Mortality: Mamma’s Story
Each year, hundreds of thousands of women die giving births. Click on the link below for a powerful photo essay by Linsey Addario, who followed a live birth of a young mother in Sierra Leone. [...]
Offshore or onsite developers?
One of the key decisions in building ClickDiagnostics' services is whether to use offshore or onsite developers. On the one-hand, offshore developers offer competitive pricing, but on the other hand, you are putting your service in the [...]
December 2009 – It’s almost time!!!
Though the team is scattered all over right now (Florida, California, and Massachusetts) we are getting really close to our trip to South Africa! Wahooo! All that harf work in the classroom and those long [...]
November 2009 – Digging In
We are now a couple of months into G-LAB Africa GHD and things just keep getting more interesting. We have received confirmation that we and ClickDiagnostics will be working with the Mvezo Tribe for our [...]
October 2009 – Getting Started on Global Health
My team has been looking forward to this class for a very long time. Global Entrepreneurship Lab (or G-LAB) is a class at MIT Sloan that seeks to match up groups of 3-4 students with [...]
Boston to Botswana – A Quick Pre-Departure Rundown
In the wee hours of the morning on January 3rd I will be leaving the dark, cold Boston winter for the sunny, hot (like, really hot) sub-saharan African summer. For 3-4 months, I will work [...]
Exciting Developments in Click Bangladesh
This is to update you on the exciting developments in Click Bangladesh. As you probably know, we started our first official venture with BRAC (the largest NGO in the world) last July. Under this pilot [...]