Gates Foundation looking to fund “Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Conditions”

Colleagues,

Please see post from David Doherty, a highly informed analyst and blogger who is responsible for new business developments at 3G Doctor in the United Kingdom and Ireland ...

... The goal of the Gates Foundation topic is to fund innovative cell phone-based applications that support their existing global health priorities: HIV,
malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrhea, family health, vaccine
preventable diseases and other neglected diseases. They are
looking for novel cell phone-based application that support vaccine,
drug, diagnostics and other cross cutting activities...

ENJOY!

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Gates Foundation looking to fund “Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Conditions”

David Doherty, Head of Business Development at 3G Doctor

Options being considered will include:

* Novel cell phone-based solutions for support of effective vaccinations
(vaccine delivery, vaccine tracking, data collection, etc);

* Cell phone applications to support front-line health care workers;

* Cell phone-based diagnostic applications (combination hardware,
wetware and software);

* Cell phone based algorithms and clinical decision support systems for
Global Health applications;

* Cell-phone based biometrics for unique patient identification;

* Data collection and patient case management application (voiceprompts,
instructions, voice-recognition inputs).

More information here: http://bit.ly/bd1DEN