ClickDiagnosics is a global mHealth enterprise founded to address the lack of medical specialists in underserved regions and the lack of real-time health data needed for strategic interventions by governments and NGOs. It aims to solve these issues using mobile technology.
6.5 billion people\n5 billion cell phone/SIM cards subscriptions world wide \n6/10 people in the world\n1/3-2/3 Africa has a mobile plan\n
launch in 3Q 2003\n\nbest selling consumer electronics device in the world.\n\nNokia’s one billionth phone sold was an 1100 in Nigeria\n\nGSM mobile phone with SMS messaging with predictive text, sealed keypad, vibration alert, torch, calculator, stopwatch and non-slip sides.\n\n- inexpensive hardware ($20 cell phone)\n-less complex infrastructure (Kenya/ Uganda have mobile/ braodband networks rivaling the US - support iPhone/ Blackberry)\n- alternative energy solutions (We’re talking a quarter of a million towers that EACH consume 530 million gallons of diesel fuel each year … in India alone.)\n\n\n\n
REVIEW:\n\nwidely available platforms for information dissemination and interactive communication.\n\nall-in-one device that can be carried and used almost anywhere\n\nopportunity for businesses, organisations and governments to reach out and interact with clients and citizens.\n\n- useful applications - functional/ helpful - flexible technology. Even the simple Nokia 1100 provides many opportunities for innovative application.\n
Lack of physicians in rural areas\n\nMobile tech to send queries, information (photos) to urban physicians for preliminary diagnostics.\n\nPartner with NGOs, phone companies, and medical associations\n\n\n