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Innovations in digital health technology have the potential to address the growing healthcare needs in low- and middle-income countries, which face the rising tide of non-communicable diseases such as hypertension while still dealing with infectious disease and maternal and child issues.
Wired for Impact will explore how to integrate digital health into global development in a way that is scalable and sustainable, and improves the overall quality of healthcare delivery to build essential connections between patients, health facilities, health providers and policymakers.

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How to fight a ‘silent killer’

Noncommunicable diseases are often dubbed “silent killers” because they lack symptoms — not least hypertension, which claims more than 9.4 million lives globally every year. In Ghana, Devex got the inside track on how digital tools are enabling health workers and physicians to share information, and how patients are being helped to self-manage their condition.

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Tech meets health care: Insights from across the spectrum

How is digital technology changing health care delivery in low- and middle-income countries and what are the challenges to ensuring long-term sustainability of these projects? Experts from across the global health and technology sectors gathered at the Wired for Impact event in Accra, Ghana, to discuss the challenges and opportunities digital health presents.

Telemedicine in Ghana: Just what the doctor ordered?

When we think of digital health, we generally think of new gadgets smart apps and the breakthrough innovations. But perhaps using the technology available is the most efficient approach. In Ghana, 90 percent of the population has a mobile phone, and telemedicine projects are being developed to deliver health impact at scale.

Beware of the Pokemon: The not-so augmented reality of digital health and development

As the hugely popular augmented reality game app Pokemon Go excites techies and Luddites alike, it ought to be a reminder of where we are with digital health, and where we aren’t.

Tech know-how needed to bring digital health efforts to scale

Digital technology is changing the way health care practitioners do their job everywhere, even in the most remote areas of the world. Dr. Ann Aerts, head of the Novartis Foundation, discussed some of the details of projects the foundation is leading in an interview with Devex at the Wired for Impact dialogue event in Accra, Ghana.

Digital health: Impact, data and the future

How can digital tech have an impact in the context of noncommunicable diseases? It’s important to look beyond the current application of digital tech — global health actors should look for new applications that will help to improve the detection of diseases, said Dr. Peter Lamptey, president emeritus at FHI 360, in an exclusive interview with Devex.

A new era in digital health

More than a decade of experimentation in digital health has seen the rise of a range of innovations that build on the promise that emerging technologies can dramatically improve health care, especially in low- and middle-income settings.

The 'significant impact' of digital tools on health care

Dr. Alain Labrique, associate professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, sheds light on the importance of “going digital” in public health work.

Unlocking the potential of digital health

Ketcia Orilius, a community health worker based in Haiti, uses a tablet that to store data, monitor pregnancies and child growth, and track immunizations. How can we truly harness the power of digital health innovations?

The promise of digital health in LMICs

Having started my career as an emergency physician in countries across Africa — from Angola and Mozambique, to the Sudan and the Caucasus — I was regularly faced with long and often dangerous journeys to reach my patients.

What are the leading innovations in digital health?

Catch up on the #Wired4Impact Twitter chat.

How can Africa prepare for post-2015 digital health investments?

As development practitioners in global health have reflected back on the Millennium Development Goal era, many have noted significant progress against key goals, including reductions in maternal deaths, child deaths under age 5 and new HIV infections.

From Our Partner

Ghana Dialogue on Digital health

Join the Novartis Foundation and experts from 1 – 2 June in Accra or online to discuss digital health in low- and middle-income countries

Improving Access with Technology

The Novartis Foundation and partners are scaling up telemedicine to reach more patients in Ghana with quality healthcare

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