Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)

We’re not going to lie: We were pretty peeved to have to trek out to so-called National Harbor for the 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington (Trevor may have omitted this point from his post about the meeting). National Harbor is not easily accessibly from Washington, D.C., particularly for those without cars, which includes most people attending the session from outside the region, and many people who live in the nation’s capital.

Problem: High maternal mortality due to a lack of prenatal care in rural Bangladesh.

Solution: Grameen Intel's Laptop-based software for identifying high-risk pregnancies, tracking patients, allocating resources and training community health workers.

Impact: Increased coverage of pregnant women with prenatal care; half of assessed women to date have high-risk pregnancies.

Last Friday, the Center for Health Market Innovations was fortunate to host Dr. Meenakshi Gautham of Garhwal Community Development and Welfare Society (GCDWS) and Dr. Sriram Iyengar of the University of Texas - Houston to talk about guideVue, a clinical decision support software that can be used on computers, mobile phones, and tablets.

Last week marked the 2011 Global Health Council Conference in DC, bringing global health experts and organizations from around the globe to share their knowledge. One insightful presentation that took place was called Realizing the Potential of mHealth: Moving from Pilots to Sustained Impact at Scale. This session, moderated by Vicky Hausman of Dalberg Global Development Advisors, focused on the fact that there have been a large number of pilots in Mobile Health (mHealth) but few have these have been scaled up. As Ms.