“In Africa, necessity is the mother of invention and social media sites are not just for sharing photographs and gossip,” quipped a recent article about Africa’s digital revolution. Although I think most of us would agree that our digital lives and social media worlds are partly for entertainment, the article also highlights how some entrepreneurs are employing technologies to help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.
Read MoreRecently, the BBC and All Africa published articles on Grand Challenges Canada’s new investments in mental health care in developing countries. These investments, more than $19 million worth, will support 15 innovative projects aimed at improving mental health diagnosis and care, including several projects that will employ mobile health or telemedicine outreach.
Read MoreLast week, New York Times columnist Dr. Pauline Chen wrote an article “Letting Patients Read the Doctor’s Notes” about the OpenNotes study, which found that patients and doctors reported overall positive experiences when patients were invited to review their doctors’ notes.
Read MoreAt last count, there are over 6 billion cell phone subscriptions worldwide, which means nearly everyone (90% of the population) subscribes to a cell phone service. In 2010, mobile apps were downloaded nearly 11 billion times and that number is predicted to rise over 76 billion app downloads by 2014, according to @MobiThinking’s 2012 Global Mobile statistics report.
Read MoreDr. Peragallo is originally from Valparaíso on the coast of Chile. She studied nursing and worked as a nurse in Chile and in Germany before she came to the United States. Life took her to West Virginia and then Texas, where she worked and completed her master’s and doctoral degrees before she met a patient in Orlando, who would change the course of her career.
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