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How might we improve maternal health with mobile technologies for low-income countries?
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Concepting
The Concepting phase of our Maternal Health challenge is where we ask the community to submit your fresh ideas in response to the challenge headline. The phase has now closed and we'll move on to applause, refinement and evaluation.
Featured Concept
SMARTmoms
SMARTmoms is a smartphone centric program designed to bring pregnant mothers together in support groups where they learn about pregnancy, neo-natal care, health and other pregnancy related topics. The program has multiple societal benefits, including training a wide population base in pregnancy-care and general health.
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Julien Bassan
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 |
Big sister / big brother classes
Since many pregnant mothers already have children, it might be effective to try to get their other kids involved and educated about the health of their future little brother / sister.
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Dan Braus
March 20, 2011
04:40PM |
Phone/IVR-Based "Midwife School"
Building on the ideas so far using SMS or touch-screen applications, why not also consider an IVR equivalent to educate/train potential midwives within a community on how to diagnose and monitor signs and symptoms?
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Karen T. Lin
March 20, 2011
03:56PM |
Knowledge distribution empowering women
A group of women from different small local communities were there is no health workers are gathered for 6 month. During this time they will receive a basic education to become trained midwifes. After the training they go back to their local commu...
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Tanja Rosenqvist
March 20, 2011
02:50PM |
Mechanical Stork: Socia-Mobile Game played through SMS
The Mechanical Stork provides maternal health information to pregnant women and mobilizes resources to ensure mothers-to-be in low-income countries receive the proper care throughout pregnancy and childbirth -- all through simple text messaging.
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Chad Kaul
March 14, 2011
06:09AM |
Midwife Yatra
Midwives of the world could join together in a Midwife Yatra (pilgrimage) to provide maternal healthcare in remote villages
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Avi Solomon
March 17, 2011
04:05AM |
Mum Radio
Building on Lalli's concept of Community Maternal Education - a local Mum Radio Station or radio show that focuses on maternal issues. Locals are encouraged to organise the show themselves based on a pack of topics put together by Oxfam.
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IDEO London
March 10, 2011
01:55PM |
Use Backpackers to Deliver Birth Kits to Remote Villages
Enlist backpackers to deliver birth kits to remote villages
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Avi Solomon
March 15, 2011
04:33PM |
mHealth Financing
Through mobile money, governments and organizations can improve efficiencies in the transfer of funds and introduce better checks and balances. Individuals can benefit from a secure and reliable means to pay (and save) for health care costs.
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Sarah Fathallah
February 25, 2011
10:16PM |
Photo diaries for tracking maternal health initiatives
Mothers could create photo-diaries that track how they are doing in their day to day life with regards to maternal health. These photo diaries could record what they eat/drink, what work they do, etc. and provide a feedback mechanism to maternal ...
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Dan Braus
March 08, 2011
07:45PM |
mBaby: Making Information Actionable
To date, neonatal mHealth SMS programs have taken two forms: reminders sent to expectant mothers, and reporting done by certified health workers. mBaby asks the question - what if we combined the two, making the reminders actionable?
Real-time ...
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erika johansson
March 20, 2011
07:02AM |
Midwife-in-a-box – A franchise-like system of maternal health care
Using the proven franchise model, we could build a large-scale network of low-cost maternal health clinics in developing areas. Mobile technology would be used to diagnose and analyze the patients' symptoms and problems on both a micro and macro ...
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Maria Leznicki
March 14, 2011
01:41PM |
Aid & Connect Cellphone + Subscription
What if an international mobile operator could offer a special phone subscription for women in developed countries that would make it possible for them to connect with and give a helping hand to fellow mothers in need?
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Siri Johansson
March 16, 2011
09:08PM |
Global village supporting new mothers
Through the use of SMS text messaging, community members with low-end handsets that send and receive text messages can act as information hub to support the needs of families in emerging markets.
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Brian Puckett
February 28, 2011
04:21PM |
Midwife Suitcase
The Midwife Suitcase builds on several concepts that use local distribution networks. The idea is to take the mobile technology components and distribute via trained midwives that are working in local communities.
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Kimberley O'Dowd
March 17, 2011
12:01AM |
If you can't go to a doctor, how about video-chatting with one?
Video doctors on call
If you can't go to a doctor, how about video-chatting with one?
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Yes I Care
March 12, 2011
02:45PM |
Medicine stock-outs
The concept tries to address the stock-out problem mentioned by Ian Sullivan as a comment to Sarah’s decentralized mobile health care system proposal.
In the core of the concept is placing an order for drugs and medical supplies via sms.
The s...
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Krassimira Iordanova
March 01, 2011
07:01PM |
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 |
QR code amulet triggers timed maternal health calls to mom's phone
A QR code amulet issued to the mom upon conception triggers delivery of timed maternal health calls to the mom's phone.
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Avi Solomon
March 16, 2011
11:59PM |
An inspiring model is text4baby, a service that sends free text messages to pregnant women or whose mothers with babies that are less than a year old. The messages are tailored to the woman's stage of pregnancy or the age of the baby, and include important information and reminders related to health topics, such as useful phone numbers, tips about nutrition, and advice.
text4baby model provides important information to mothers
An inspiring model is text4baby, a service that sends free text messages to pregnant women or whose mothers with babies that are less than a year old. The messages are tailored to the woman's stage of pregnancy or the age of the baby, and include ...
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Rachel Signer
March 12, 2011
12:13AM |
