Welcome to mHealthEd.org, the not for profit portal for information, advice, debate and collaboration concerning mhealth education in developing countries. Supported by the iheed institute. www.iheed.org
mHealthEd is mobile health education.
It is the use of mobile phone and other communication technology to provide health education, advice and training to patients, volunteers, community health workers, nurses and other medical staff. For more details see About mHealthEd
The time to think about mobile Health Education for developing countries is now.
Innovators are starting to utilise the astounding growth of mobile communications networks to offer:
• Affordable supervision, support and up-skilling for health workers in remote areas to drive motivation and retention
• Expanded training and greater roles for nurses and clinicians
• Improved awareness of primary health care issues
• On-site, continuous in-service and refresher training
• Facilitated task-shifting to bring the point of care closer to the Patient
mHealthEd 2012 Cape Town
mhealthEd 2012 is a Partner event of the GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit, taking place on the 29th May 2012. mHealthEd 2011 was the first dedicated conference on the emerging phenomenon of mobile Health Education. The event was hugely successful and productive. All presentations and a full report are available here
