mHero isn't your typical mobile health program.
Under her leadership ghg developed text4baby, the country's top mobile health program and now a permanent exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Musuem, and established the first healthcare agency partnership with IBM Watson.
Following a description of the mobile health program, each component of the revised strategy is described in more detail below.
Certainly, the operational costs needed to bring a mobile health program to national scale would be substantial and have to be formally considered.
Based on the success of this project, training and implementation of a mobile health program could be scaled up with wider targets for intervention in the future.
A one year review of the revised FORAL program provides detailed information on a Congolese-led mobile health program for survivors of GBV, other vulnerable women and their male partners in rural post-conflict settings that often lack access to skilled providers.
In 2004, Foundation RamaLevina (FORAL), a Congolese health and social non-governmental organization, started a mobile health program for vulnerable women and men to address the barriers to access identified by GBV survivors and their families in rural South Kivu province, Eastern DRC.
In partnership with existing health services in the area, FORAL initiated a free mobile health program for survivors and other vulnerable women and girls and, later, expanded services to include socio-economic and reintegration services for survivors and their families and awareness education to reduce stigma in the community.
In her role, she is responsible for developing the philanthropic strategy and portfolio in global health innovation, with an initial focus on mobile health (mhealth) programs.
– While health worker-driven mobile health (mHealth) programs are revolutionizing health care, challenges still exist in patient identification arising from lack of official identification, common community names, unknown dates of birth, and human error.
