Preparations for the Ushahidi .ke Evaluation launch are running full speed ahead. Jennifer Chan, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and I visited Rukia Sebit and Tobias Ouma of MamaBits, the coordinators of Building Bridges deployment. Building Bridges is a project to encourage people to encourage, map and connect people working on peace initiatives in Kenya. Their work was one of the featured deployments for the evaluation. Read More »

FrontlineSMS is being used for social change in many different ways across the world...[here] at FrontlineSMS we have seen increasing numbers using FrontlineSMS for organisational management, which has indirect benefits for people which are far harder to measure and demonstrate; helping organisations to work more efficiently, communicate more easily with their staff, and move information around more swiftly... Read More »

A few years ago, a Canadian pharmaceutical company found that it was in constant crisis mode, and its way out of the chaos lay in getting everyone to communicate.The company, Ratiopharm Canada, was having a hard time being flexible enough to meet changes in demand. Read More »

Starting in 2009, Six Feet Up participated in a large web redevelopment project for a prominent Fortune 200 pharmaceutical company spanning ten months, involving over 30 resources, and resulting in a new website tailor made to the requirements of their global business. Read More »

When all is said and done, the advancement of telehealth and mobile health in the United States will be accomplished through the percolation of innovation. Read More »

At POSSE this year, White and 15 other professors brainstormed ways they could help students realize just how important their contributions to open source projects can be--not just for the projects themselves, but for their futures as citizens and professionals in any number of fields. Read More »

Providers who have established health IT tools and changed clinical and business operations to accommodate electronic systems are prepared to take the next step toward transformation, often becoming patient-centered medical homes. Read More »

The Health IT Standards Committee has endorsed a single set of vocabulary standards and a single guide for putting them in place for each area of quality reporting measures, an accomplishment that some individuals and groups have been working on for 10 years. The domains include medications, labs and allergies. Read More »