From the article: "Two decades ago, a woman having a difficult birth in a
Ugandan village would have had few options to get life-saving treatment if
there was not a nearby health clinic. But today, mobile technology can help her
get advice from a doctor in Kampala over the telephone, alert a community
health worker about her situation, or even get her to a hospital.
Mobile technology is changing the landscape of health care delivery across
the developing world by giving people who live in rural villages the ability to
connect with doctors, nurses and other health care workers in major cities.
“Now, a phone call can compress the time that it would have taken before to
come to that decision point and get the woman care more often and quickly,”
said Dr. Alain Labrique, a professor of International Health and Epidemiology
at Johns
Hopkins University, in Baltimore.
More than 60 faculty members and 120 students are part of the Johns Hopkins
Global mHealth Initiative, which has 51 projects exploring the use of mobile
technology in health."
