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How might we improve maternal health with mobile technologies for low-income countries?
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For the next few days, we're asking the community to return and applaud your favourite concepts. In 4 days we will create the shortlist of final concepts, comprised of your applauded favourites and ones picked out by the Oxfam, Nokia & IDEO team.
So applaud away! Choose all the concepts you think are deserving of going through and be sure to comment as well – we'll also note the comments and enthusiasm of the community in deciding on the short list.
Mom Adopt A Mom
How can we create links between moms all over the world in order to support and help each other using just their own experience?
In places like Burkina Faso and Bangladesh, moms have major limitations when it comes to obtaining information abo...
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Estudio 6, Colombia
March 12, 2011
06:28PM |
Medical rally
Imagine a rally as Paris-Dakar made just by doctors from all over the globe. Their path pass next to some villages and they have to stop in each village and make some health care for pregnant. And continuing in the idea of a previous concept (http...
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Diogo Dutra
March 11, 2011
09:26PM |
RADIO CTG + S.O.S
Method to measure heart rate of fetus and contractions of mother with a micro-CTG /cardiotokography/ and a data transmission network. Early contractions can be a sign of threatening preterm delivery, changed heart rate of a fetus can be a sign of ...
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lukasz krupinski
February 22, 2011
10:50PM |
Integrated System for Education, Telemedicine and Timely Care for Women
The idea is to integrate Education through Community Health Workers (CHW), Information and accurate refferal within the Health Network with the use of Mobile Technology.
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Alejandro Correa
March 20, 2011
06:03PM |
Device Placement & Exposure
The high crime rate and the highly physical nature of most jobs raise the issue of mobile device placement and security.
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Kirk Soderstrom
March 04, 2011
07:27PM |
An Audio Guide through Maternity
Imagine the audio guide that you get when you enter a museum. You punch a number and you get to know all about the statue of Venus de Milo or Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in front of you.
If we consider pregnancy a journey that a woman embarks on, then ...
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Krassimira Iordanova
March 02, 2011
02:53PM |
PORTAGRAM: A Portable Sonogram to connect to SMS and CHW networks
Building on various ideas submitted for robust Community Health Worker programs, how about a simple portable sonogram, which could be plugged into a cell phone to text ultrasound images back to a local doctor's office? This would provide both real...
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Marika Shioiri-Clark
March 14, 2011
06:23AM |
Healthcare through Mobility
"Remote villages, coupled with a lack of transportation, isolate patients from the growing availability of health care. Health care is then useless because it does not reach those in need. Without care and education, the disease is rampant, leavin...
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Kirk Soderstrom
March 15, 2011
03:23AM |
Medical Congress in low-Income countries
Why instead of Medical Congresses happen in countries with just beautiful places and no apparently problems, don't they happen in low-income countries? So, this could be a way to bring attention to a specific place. But, not just attention, but al...
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Diogo Dutra
March 11, 2011
10:00PM |
Proposal to turn some of the ideas here into the reality
Win (pregnant women in need) -Win (gadget users) -Win (corporation) -Win (and Open IDEATORS!) concept
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Justin Kim
March 17, 2011
03:11AM |
Crowd-source childbirth financing through SMS money
Set up a "child fund" savings account for mom, dad, family, and friends to contribute money towards for the one-time childbirth expense. Increase access & earmark usage of this fund by administering it through a mobile money account, which is con...
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Peter Z
March 13, 2011
04:30PM |
Creative Money for pregnants
Giving some kind of incentive for the human being always gave a lot of results. This suggestion was made by Dan Braus in this inspiration: http://tinyurl.com/4rdnzl2.
Incentive as:
- Money incentives (my paycheck)
- 'Points' incentives (my...
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Diogo Dutra
March 11, 2011
09:03PM |
Maternal health system - interface points diagram
I started thinking about the greater maternal health network that has been addressed by all the awesome concepts that have been posted so far, and wanted to try to lay out this network in a way where I could start to wrap my head around all of the...
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Dan Braus
March 15, 2011
05:40PM |
Life Web
This concept draws from many of the ideas presented; it simply envisions a visual interface...and the image presented here invites your comments.
With respect to mobile technologies, it has 2 components:
(1) Connection
(2) Knowledge
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Kirk Soderstrom
March 10, 2011
08:59PM |
VEDA, a data portal, parent community, and medical advice line
AT&T sponsored this project for our ME 313 class at Stanford. We were charged with creating an application that would support AT&T's goal of becoming a future health data storage portal. My work partner Sungjoon Kim and I framed our projec...
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Jules Sherman
March 09, 2011
04:12AM |
The doppler phone
A handheld doppler wand that plugs into a Nokia phone. The phone speaker will project the heart beat for the family to hear the baby. More importantly, the phone screen will read out the fetal heart rate and send the data to the medical community ...
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Michael Bertolina
March 14, 2011
04:08AM |
Voice Mail 4 Baby
Text4Baby provides free text messages with to help moms through their pregnancy and baby’s 1st year. VoiceMail4Baby builds off of the Text4Baby concept by using Twilio to enable moms to receive either text or voice messages with helpful advice. Vo...
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Jessica Vechakul
March 16, 2011
05:49AM |
Community Maternity Education
Maternity education and knowledge about health services would drastically improve maternal health across both high and low income countries. Mothers and support figures go to meetings where interested experienced mothers and healthcare professiona...
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LilNinja
February 26, 2011
04:51PM |
GroupMe Micro Health Networks (bringing the community into the palm of your hand)
What if you could harness the insights of health care professionals and others with experience in your community into the palm of your hand? What if you had local clinic doctors, nurses, or healthcare provider start small groups with women who hav...
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Sina Mossayeb
February 22, 2011
03:02AM |
Phone Pool
A pool of pre-loaded phones for women to use within each village.
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Jessie Cutts
March 14, 2011
10:53AM |
