http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/1078 en_GB_uk http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/160309/1/1078 Rural health practioners in Alaska are being facilitated through videoconferencing to cater to the needs of the mentally ill. Through lectures and consultations, the health providers will build their technical skills related to nutrition and surgeries. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/160277/1/1078 Healthy @ home takes a look at how new technologies can help the elderly in independent living. Based on a survey of elderly adults and care providers in the United States, the publication discusses the benefits of new devices. It also, not surprisingly, concludes that personal attention cannot replace new technologies. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/160198/1/1078 Open Health Tools, an open source developer community consisting of members like BT, IBM and Oracle, will develop common healthcare IT products and services. Anyone can use their software to create information interoperable platforms to make healthcare systems more efficient. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/160105/1/1078 IBM is toying with the idea of providing information to rural users on toll-free numbers. Its pilot project in southern India will provide information on healthcare services, small businesses and micro-finance. Once successful, it will be taken to international markets. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/160016/1/1078 Tom Hadfield famous for selling a soccer website at the age of 17 is now launching a social networking site to help fight malaria that kills a million people a year. The site will not just be a fund raising tool but also connect researchers working on its prevention and treatment. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/159975/1/1078 A community radio show by college students in Chennai in southern India is bringing alive characters from neighbouring slums to help women deal with issues of health and education. The use of local Tamil dialect is just one of the ways to reach out to its audience in the slums. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/159552/1/1078 Under Indian government’s Integrated Child Development Services, Lakshadweep, a centrally administered archipelago, has decided to digitise all its 87 anganwadi centres. The move aims to monitor women and child development programmes in the geographically isolated islands. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/159506/1/1078 A little-known mobile helpline can help you find a blood donor in times of crises. All it takes is an SMS. The messages access an online database of 45,000 blood donors in 300 Indian towns and cities. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/158782/1/1078 Cardiac telemedicine deployment across Greater Manchester has shown reduction in the burden of cardiac care on the National Health Service and at the same time improved patient care. The study proves that the service avoids the need for immediate referral of patients with non-acute chest-pain symptoms to hospital care in majority of cases. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/158773/1/1078 New software by India’s National Informatics Centre (NIC) in Jharkhand offers individual search for pregnant women and newborns at the Anganwadi level. The programme will help the state government track the nutrition status of both mother and child and the immunisation of infants. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/158533/1/1078 It is now possible to become virtual neighbours of the residents of a Sierra Leone slum from anywhere in the world. You can help them reduce infant mortality by donating money and also watch how your money is being utilised. All this can be done through Internet, an initiative of UK-based Save the Children organisation. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/158141/1/1078 Andhra Pradesh government in southern India will provide cellular phones to rural health workers along with setting up mobile hospitals. In addition, two free caller services for emergency medical help or advice have also been introduced under public-private collaboration. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/157134/1/1078 Recently in north India’s prosperous state of Punjab, another telemedicine project has been inaugurated. Using the modern Broad Band VPN technology, the tele-linking will be used to make available the health facilities and expert opinions to those in need of urgent medical attention in far-flung areas. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/157133/1/1078 Recently in north India’s prosperous state of Punjab, another telemedicine project has been inaugurated. Using the modern Broad Band VPN technology, the tele-linking will be used to make available the health facilities and expert opinions to those in need of urgent medical attention in far-flung areas. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/156259/1/1078 In launching an e-learning tool to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS pandemic in Nigeria, OneWorld UK and others had three main objectives: Using ICT to educate young people on reproductive health, improving information on sex education and gender equality.