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		<title>eHealth Ghana Meeting Livetweets</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to thank Dr. Gunther Eysenbach for livetweeting from the Ghana meeting. Below you will find a chronological pruned version of his updates.
1.    Ziedan Abdo Zeidan from Sudan is talking about the 10 e&#8217;s in eHealth (sounds familiar &#8211; forgets to credit the source).
2.    Newspaper article (Daily [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would like to thank <a title="Twitter @Eysenbach" href="http://twitter.com/eysenbach" target="_blank">Dr. Gunther Eysenbach</a> for livetweeting from the <a title="eHealth Ghana" href="http://www.ehealthgh.com/index.php" target="_blank">Ghana meeting</a>. Below you will find a chronological pruned version of his updates.</p>
<p>1.    Ziedan Abdo Zeidan from Sudan is talking about the 10 e&#8217;s in eHealth (sounds familiar &#8211; forgets to credit the source).<br />
2.    Newspaper article (Daily Graphic) about #ehealthghana conference.<br />
<img class="size-medium wp-image-20 alignnone" title="Develop framework for the use of ICT" src="http://www.e-publichealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ghana-300x225.jpg" alt="Develop framework for the use of ICT" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<p>3.    Antoine Geissbuhler talks about elearning / RAFT project in Africa &#8211; impressive!<br />
4.    Claire Thwaites from UN Foundation talks about <a title=" mHealth for Development Report" href="http://www.unfoundation.org/global-issues/technology/mhealth-report.html" target="_blank">mHealth for Development Report. </a><br />
5.    Patricia Mechael: mHealth in Africa is moving beyond the stage of pilot projects.<br />
6.    <a title="mHealth Alliance" href="http://bit.ly/Pn7nk">mhealth alliance</a><br />
7.    Patricia Mechael (Earth Insitute): Partnership between Millennium villages, Ericsson and other mobile providers.<br />
8.    Patricia Mechael (Earth Insitute): MoTECH project in Ghana, funded by Gates Foundation, ethnographic study on mhealth.<br />
9.    Raghurama Krishna (Ericsson), talking about mhealth projects:m-learning, teleconsulting; <a title="Ericsson Mobile Innovation Center" href="http://bit.ly/eOTRl" target="_blank">Ericsson Mobile Innovation Center. </a><br />
10.    Raghurama Krishna (Ericsson): Gramjyoti, Ghandigram project (India): buses with <a title="Buses with mHealth Connectivity" href="http://bit.ly/19K5f7" target="_blank">mhealth connectivitiy.</a><br />
11.    Anneli Milen: mhealth in Africa used for appointment reminders, treatment adherence (HIV etc), health educ.<br />
12.    Anneli Milen: mhealth challnges: reinventng the wheel, not open source, separate pilots, not scalable, sustainabilty, cultural.<br />
13.    Anneli Milen echoes call for a repository of ehealth projects. I should revive my International eHealth Studies Registry idea.<br />
14.    none of the speakers mentioned social networking as potential mhealth application. #idea: twitter-like sms 1-to-many network.<br />
15.    what I learned when preparing my talk: Twitter <a title="SMS Cost in Africa" href="http://bit.ly/3k8n4" target="_blank">&#8220;failed&#8221; in Africa because of SMS costs</a> .<br />
16.    I asked a question re my #idea to the mhealth panel, but I don&#8217;t think they understood what I was talking about …<br />
17.    Talked w Patricia Mechael (she&#8217;s great) in the break, mentioned UNICEFs <a title="Rapid SMS" href="http://bit.ly/em6QB" target="_blank">RapidSMS</a>. Seems like a great tool!<br />
18.    Emmanuel Ubachukwu from Ministry of Health Nigeria talks about using RapidSMS for Malaria (bednets distribution).<br />
19.    <a title="Rapid SMS" href="http://bit.ly/yTkCT" target="_blank">RapidSMS </a>for malaria bednet distribution coordination in Nigeria is fascinating &#8211; 1 million SMS sent.<br />
20.    Flatiel Vilanculos, AHILA: &#8220;1/3 of medicines in the developing worlds are counterfeit made by criminals.<br />
21.    Flatiel Vilanculos, AHILA: mPedigree, 8-digit code on genuine med labels, consumer verifies drug isn&#8217;t counterfeit via SMS.<br />
22.    <a title="mPedigree in Ghana" href="http://bit.ly/TxQia">Mpedigree in Ghana</a> are doing great effort to combat counterfeiting of drugs using ICTs,<a title="http://mpedigree.net" href="http://mpedigree.net"></a><br />
24.    Michael Dabaly (ZAIN, a mobile ph provider), talking about mHealth for Disease &amp; Epidemic Surveillance and Reporting in Kenya.<br />
25.    Mohammed Saleh from Microsoft shows video &#8220;<a title="Microsoft- A Glimpse Ahead" href="http://bit.ly/11tHJz">A glimpse ahead</a>&#8221; ,</p>
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