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How might we improve maternal health with mobile technologies for low-income countries?
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Thanks to everyone for evaluating our top 20 finalist concepts. We'll be announcing the winner at 10AM BST, Thursday, April 21.
CareGiver Solution for Midwives
The solution could help midwives/HCW monitor expecting mothers, identify risk pregnancies and involve a doctor when required.
I suggest a hybrid between Nokia Data Gathering tool or similar, like MoTeCH, and Medica Application from Nokia. Nokia D...
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Krassimira Iordanova
February 22, 2011
10:06AM |
SMS Pregnancy Journal
Mothers-to-be can keep an SMS journal of their pregnancy. Each day they send how they're feeling & health details to the service and this is kept as a record. The service can alert mums or healthcare workers of any anomalies
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Haiyan Zhang
February 21, 2011
11:22PM |
Paying healthcare workers salaries via mobile phones
Mobile money services may be able to deliver gains in transparency, accountability, and savings in the health care system. Paying salaries to HCWs through mobile phones could help diminish corruption down the payment chain, and potentially increas...
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Sarah Fathallah
March 01, 2011
10:53PM |
The Full Story: Booklet + Audio Phone Service
By using a combination of printed material and audio, knowledge about maternal health can be shared in an inclusive way using simple methods, while still offering a rich learning experience.
NOW UPDATED!
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Siri Johansson
March 08, 2011
09:35PM |
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, inclu...
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Julien Bassan
March 16, 2011
04:05PM |
Rainy season, NON-VULNERABLE SEASON, Dry season
Considering that Labour vulnerability (whereas victims are Burkina Faso Mothers) influences directly on the physical and emotional health and the fact that agricultural sector (where most of them work) has a Dry and Wet season, as well as non-prod...
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Estudio 6, Colombia
March 13, 2011
12:04AM |
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 |
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 |
Mother Mati’s Phone and Flipbook
SUBTITLE: Call Mother Mati for A Trusted Voice. Follow her picture book for a healthy Mother and Baby.
SUMMARY: Linking picture flipbook, an automated phone messaging service and an automated SMS service to assist mothers and midwives to take si...
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Tristan Cooke
March 18, 2011
05:17AM |
Portable Maternal Health Video Library for Community Health Workers
Make a portable maternal health medical video library available to CHWs preloaded on mobile phones or on a SD card.
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Avi Solomon
February 25, 2011
03:00PM |
Make it a game!
Design a game where community members gain points for actions that help bring healthy babies into the world (with healthy moms). Winners can be designated as community heros and offered mobile phones, minutes or other sponsor-driven incentives.
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Loretta Rae
March 16, 2011
01:13PM |
Pregnancy Nutrition Package
This concept focuses on making nutritional intake convenient, attractive, and culturally-relevant to improve maternal and infant mortality and morbidity (direct improvements on anemia, neural development, infection, low birth weight, premature del...
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Vincent Cheng
February 24, 2011
03:00AM |
Free Midwife Hotline
A free 24/7 hotline operated by volunteer midwives and doulas
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Avi Solomon
February 22, 2011
03:27AM |
Low cost free SMS forum
When questions occur pregnant women or caring moms just need to send an sms to the other women and local healthcare workers. Whoever knows the answer replies to it thus helping the woman and everyone else who might have the same problem later.
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Olga Shipilo
March 12, 2011
10:11AM |
Mom 2 Mom Mentor Matching
Imagine if a mom to be could simply call or text to choose from a list of qualified, experienced moms in her community for a meet up in a public place (like a market). The mom mentor would share her own personal story & advise on how to have a hea...
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Vincent Cheng
February 22, 2011
12:25AM |
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 |
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 |
Free Maternity Camps
The idea is to send medical teams from a base hospital to remote areas where moms-to-be will be examined by doctors. The concept of the maternity camps is inspired by Aravind's free eye camps in India.
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Krassimira Iordanova
February 23, 2011
04:42PM |
Creating a Sense of Family
IDEO Palo Alto led a brainstorm in our office today to think through how to involve Dads in the maternal health process/experience. Here, two IDEOers explain the idea of how to use texting to create a sense of family.
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IDEO Palo Alto
March 08, 2011
11:35PM |
OpenIDEO targeted collaboration project
Let's create a specifically maternal health and targetted collaboration project. Let's work with a handful of communities and bring them on board the collaboration process. Let's create products that the community want.
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Ian Sullivan
March 11, 2011
03:28PM |
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