Dhaka, April 16 (bdnews24.com)—Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus met US secretary of state Hillary Clinton at the state department in Washington on Thursday.
"They discussed his plans to transform health care in Bangladesh through the development of Health Management Centers," said a statement on the US embassy website. Secretary Clinton is a long-time advocate of microcredit and expanding the availability of health care. Bill Clinton & Yunus keynote in New York on April 17. Yunus and Sachs debate at NY's 92Y on Sunday April 19.
2 Voice of America April 16- Future Capitalism partnerships are helping Bangladesh create lowest cost health system http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-04-16-voa3.cfm partners include Pfizer, Mayo Clinic, GE, BASF, German Saudi Hospitals, TheGreenChildren Pop Group with Aravind eyecare replications. Historically Bangladesh has had 3 times more doctors than nurses. Now fast learning networks of village women are reversing that trend.
Grameen Veolia launches safe water sustaining 80 times lower customer price than any other known water business. Whilst social business entrepreneurs typically aim to design 10 times lower cost sustainability business models, with the possible exception of microcredit banking's mobile revolutions http://bankabillion.org , this ranks as one of the greatest entrepreneurial revolution leaps ever reported http://erworld.tv
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Wednesday's first keynote was on sustainable healthcare. The panel included Nobel Laureate Mohammed Yunus (Grameen Bank and Grameen Health_Bangladesh and Frank Rijsberman (Google.org ). Mr. Yunus provided a holistic view of healthcare reform in the developing world. He talked about the need to raise income of the poor, improve nutrition and sanitation and increasing access to healthcare providers. In terms of Health IT, Dr. Yunus talked about leveraging cell phones. Cell phones are the source of internet access for the poor in the developing world. Dr. Yunus is working with GE to find ways to improve healthcare utilizing cell phones. Personally, I feel that this initiative needs to be monitored closely since it may be the source of global best practices for low-cost Health IT.
Mr. Rijsberman discussed Google.org initiatives to distribute healthcare data. He discussed aggregate data such as the spread of flu and individualized data such as finding a nearby dentist. Additionally, this data could be delivered through web-enabled cell phones. The ultimate result would the efficient allocation of resources, i.e., placing the time, money and effort in the necessary areas.
For me, this discussion emphasizes that the “pipeline” for the information can be rather “low-tech.” What is far more important is collecting the data from users, from patients, etc.
- Mobile Solutions for Nutrition Monitoring
Presenter: Mr. Sean Blaschke, Grad Student, International Affairs, Columbia University
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- A Chlorhexidine Product for Umbilical Cord Care
Presenter: Ms. Mutsumi Metzle, Commercialization Officer, PATH
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- LifeSpring Hospitals
Presenter: Ms. Tricia Morente, Director, Marketing and Strategy, LifeSpring Hospitals
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- "Car Part" Incubator: An Innovative Solution
Presenter: Ms. Aya Caldwell, , CIMIT Global Health Initiative
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- Cost-Effective Asphyxia Intervention in Aceh
Presenter: Ms. Aya Caldwell, , CIMIT Global Health Initiative
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- MIDA (Medical In-Field Diagnostic Assistant)
Presenter: Mr. Alexander Albertine, Program Manager, MIDA International
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- Women-Owned Franchises: Diagnostics in Rural India
Presenter: Ms. Ann Rogan, Manager, Rural Health Services, Drishtee
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- Resdida: Affordable Bi-Directional Communications
Presenter: Ms. Karen Vincent, COO, Resdida
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- Hot Diagnostic Technologies: Low cost, point of care
Presenter: Mr. Paul LaBarre, Technical Officer, PATH
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- Ultra Rice: Expanding markets for fortified rice
Presenter: Ms. Rae Galloway, Nutrition Specialist, PATH
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- InSTEDD's Global Early Warning and Response System
Presenter: Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, Director, InSTEDD
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- Rapid Healthcare Diagnostics Network - D.Scope
Presenter: Dr. Daniel Niclas, CSO, D-Rev
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- Social Marketing and Franchising for a Better Life
Presenter: Ms. Preeti Anand, General Manager, Programs, Janani
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- Embrace: A $25 Infant Incubator
Presenter: Ms. Jane Chen, CEO, Embrace
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- Affordable, Sustainable Mobile Health Delivery
Presenter: Mr. Don Yansen, Director, ClickHealth
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- The CFWclinics Franchise Network
Presenter: Mr. Greg Starbird, COO, HealthStore Foundation
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- Mobile Games for Healthcare
Presenter: Dr. Hilmi Quraishi, Chief Learning Technologist, ZMQ Software Systems
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- Water-Based Health Care Delivery in Bangladesh
Presenter: Ms. Rupa Patel, Volunteer, Friendship Health Care
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- Arsenic Water Filter
Presenter: Jamil Husain, CEO, Telophase Corporation
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- Remote Health Monitoring Device
Presenter: Jamil Husain, CEO, Telophase Corporation
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- Integration of Hygiene Kits into Health Service Delivery
Presenter: Cecilia Kwak, Technical Advisor, Child Survival, Population Services International
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- Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation for Rural Asia
Presenter: Susan Addy, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
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- WaterHealth International: Clean Water Solutions
Presenter: Susan Addy, Postdoctoral Scholar, WaterHealth International
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- An integrated, fully automated system for CD4, CD4% and hematology analysis for on-site, on-time HIV/AIDS patient monitoring and management
Presenter: Kim Beer, Marketing Director Worldwide, Pointcare Technologies
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- Low-cost Ventilator
Presenter: Arsath Ahammed, Student Inventor, BITS Dubai
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- Low-cost SPRD
Presenter: Greg Shane, Director Business Development , AktivPak
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- Low-cost Infusion Pump
Presenter: Amir Genosar, CEO, Fluonic
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- Affordable Needle-Free Measles Immunization
Presenter: Amir Genosar, CTO, Aespironics
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- Developing a large scale consumption of fonio
Presenter: Sanoussi Diakite, Chercheur, DKP
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- BASF Grameen Ltd.
Presenter: Egon Weinmueller, Director, Global Strategic Marketing , BASF SE
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- IMI: Providing Access to Mobility
Presenter: Rudy Roy, Co-Founder, Intelligent Mobility International
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- Rural Micro-enterprise for Improved Nutrition
Presenter: Hart Jansson, Vice-President, Malnutrition Matters
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- Safe Drinking Water: A Reality for All
Presenter: Rohini Mukherjee, Head, Global Partnerships, Naandi Foundation
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- FrontlineSMS:Medic - Towards Healthcare in a Box
Presenter: Lucky Gunasekara, Director, Clinical Programs, FrontlineSMS:Medic
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- Question Box - Village Health Hotline
Presenter: Rose Shuman, Founder and CEO, Open Mind - Question Box
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- Health Children - Renascer
Presenter: Laura Cordeiro, Executive Assistant , Renascer - Child Heath
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- Micro-health Insurance Scheme of Grameen Kalyan
Presenter: Imamus Sultan, Managing Director, Grameen Kalyan
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- Low-Cost USB-based Ultrasound Probes
Presenter: David Zar, Research Associate, Washington University
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- Envirofit Clean Cookstoves - Sustainability & Scale
Presenter: Ron Bills, CEO and Chairman, Envirofit International
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- A social business for drinking water in Bangladesh
Presenter: Erice Lesueur, Project Director, Veolia Water
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- A Home-based Urine Test for Clinical Malaria
Presenter: Mr. Eddy Agbo, CEO/CSO, Fyodor Biotechnologies, Inc.
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our web tracking emergence of malaria social business versus Obama's 2015 pledge is at http://www.malaria2015.com/ we welcome news of other deadline webs for market sector reponsibility/sustainability
- Aravind Eye Hospital (abstract coming soon)
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5 In other news, The economist this week carries a special survey on healthcare and technology http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13437990 | |
