Making mobile technology accessible

Making mobile technology accessible

Medic Mobile works with partner organizations that provide high-impact health services in challenging settings. We see communication gaps through the eyes of their staff, and guide them towards low-cost tools and more effective health services.
The tools are available

The tools are available

We’ve used free and open source software to boost immunization rates by more than 20%, to contain disease outbreaks, and to make drug stock reporting 4x cheaper and 134x faster. Our efforts have impacted the care of over 600,000 patients.
Familiar is better

Familiar is better

Most mobile phone owners live in the developing world, yet many mobile health initiatives fail to grow beyond a few dozen people. We can close the gap and reach scale by using the phones that are already in people’s hands.

THE WORD ON THE STREET

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Artist in Arms: Raha

  A small gauntlet of community health volunteers gathered on the other side of the school’s stone gate to preside over our departure.  As we stepped before the group we bowed our heads and one by one they took their thumbs and pressed a pink tika into the skin between our eyebrows and up onto...
blog

Artist in Arms: Notes from Achham

  The road from Dhangadhi changes between a rough paved surface and unpaved. We weave past beach ball sized boulders fallen from the cliff to our left. Our wild haired driver accelerates in the straights before tapping the brakes and applying the horn in short jarring pumps all the way through the corners. The technique...
announcement / blog

A New Website, A Growing Team, An Expanding Opportunity

I’m thrilled to introduce you to Medic Mobile’s new visual brand! We’ve reworked our logo, colors and typefaces to capture the aspirational trajectory of our team and to emphasize that Medic Mobile and Hope Phones are related efforts of the same team. We’ve also rewritten most of the content, emphasizing that Medic Mobile is not...
blog / research & impact

The Shift to Mobile Phone Training

Our three trainings for the village health workers (VHWs), which have spanned the course of the summer, are always active. Every day that the VHWs come into training they begin with a seated discussion or lecture but soon after the lecture ends they know they will have to practice everything they’ve learned on each other....
blog / research & impact

Village Health Worker Training on Antenatal Care

Village Health Worker Training at Hope Hospital, Photographs by Zahra Bhimani This past week, we completed another round of our antenatal care (ANC) training for our Village Health Workers (VHWs). Our study which looks at two main sites in the rural population of Cox’s Bazar (one near the Hope Hospital site, and one near the...

 

 

 

 

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    Our Mission

    Medic Mobile uses communication technologies to improve the health of under-served and disconnected communities. We see communication gaps through the eyes of community-based health workers and patients, guiding our partners towards low-cost technologies and efficient health services.