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A new syringe pump can save babies’ lives in developing countries
This syringe pump prototype is entirely mechanical and can work in healthcare centers where power may be unreliable. Photo courtesty of Team Zikomo Medical devices swept the show at this year’s...
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Five questions with Josh Nesbit
Josh Nesbit is helping to turn cell phones into tools for better healthcare. Photo courtesy of Josh Nesbit The cell phone has been a lifesaver for patients in developing countries. It has improved...
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Rats are on the front lines of the tuberculosis fight
Rats patter along a run pocked with holes and sniff the sputum samples in the cavities below. When they detect tuberculosis in the mucous, they pause and sometimes scratch at the ground. Photo by...
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Providing Telemedicine to Peru’s Medical Outposts
Reprinted with permission from IEEE’s The Institute Three health facilities in Peru’s remote Amazon jungle can now communicate with each other and exchange information with a regional hospital, thanks...
View ArticleVideo: Building technical capacity in resource-poor hospitals
Hospitals in developing countries tend to lack healthcare technology, and even when life-saving machines are available, trained operators and maintenance crews are scarce. Because rich countries...
View ArticleA new low-cost device diagnoses HIV in developing countries
Results are in from a test run in Rwanda for a simple handheld device that diagnoses HIV and wirelessly updates patients’ medical records. And they look promising. The mChip device, which is the...
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E4C Solutions: A solar autoclave for off-grid medical centers
Photo courtesy of Adam Compton In this series, we feature technological solutions that our members have proposed. If you or someone you know has developed project that can make a difference in an...
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RFID cards could streamline rural health care in developing countries
A teetering stack of documents on a storage-room shelf can pass for a medical record filing system in some sub-Saharan African hospitals. Looking up a patient’s history can mean leafing through reams...
View ArticleSmartphones, Healthcare & Development
Sure, the smartphone is rapidly changing health care in the developed world. We can do so much from the palm of our hands, including look up a medical condition, find treatment options, schedule a...
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Upgrading electronics with paper cards smooths the work to digitize medical...
Mobile devices that replaced paper records in rural healthcare in Uganda have recently had a much-needed upgrade back to paper. Although digital records are easier to search, store and distribute,...
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