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CALL FOR NEW ADVANCEMENTS IN RURAL HEALTH TECHNOLOGY |
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World Health Partners is committed to utilizing all relevant technologies for improving access to and quality of health services and products.
If you are knowledgeable about an affordable technology or concept that may improve rural health, we would like to hear from you. These include, but are not limited to: |
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Rural health technologies |
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Alternative energy |
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Information technology |
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Rural transportation |
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Micro financing |
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Digital diagnostics |
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Please contact us at
info@worldhealthpartners.org |
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TECHNOLOGIES |
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Use of technology in rural medicine |
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Interestingly, the intersection of low-cost technology and lack of health access is not uncommon in the developing world. Even in one of the poorest states of India, Uttar Pradesh, the population has greater access to a television than to running water. Experts estimate that even if only technologies that were developed two decades ago were used, the status of health and reproductive health in the developing world could be enhanced significantly.
The paradox that global health care faces today is that technologies that improved the health of citizens in the developed world decades ago are still not available to the poor in the developing world, despite many of these technologies being widely manufactured at low cost. WHP recognizes this lack of an efficient delivery system by combining available technologies in communications, medicine and diagnostics within an evidence-based administrative framework. |
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ReMeDi Telemedicine Solution |
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WHP utilizes the ReMeDi telemedicine system developed by Neurosynaptic Communications based in Bangalore, India. This comprehensive system allows doctors to examine patients visually, to perform sophisticated diagnostic tests, and to provide therapeutic recommendations. ReMeDi has been specifically designed for rural settings, keeping in mind problems posed by unreliable power supply and inaccessibility, on the one hand, and the need for durability and ease of use, on the other hand. Many of the applications have also been customized specially for WHP to suit the service delivery networks.
This low-cost telemedicine system allows doctors at a remote location to listen to a patient’s heart sounds, view an electrocardiogram, conduct blood pressure checks, and obtain lab results and patient medical records, while speaking to the patient in real time.
We invite you to learn more about ReMeDi by visiting Neurosynaptic’s website www.neurosynaptic.com. |
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Communications Technology |
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World Health Partners uses smart communications solutions to connect rural network providers. These include the widely available VSAT satellite technology, broadband, and the latest wireless technologies to deliver voice, data and video.
India Pilot Program Communications Technology Providers |
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