Spring 2009
Hi Tech Health
Technology is a tool that lets people help themselves, be it finding today’s prices for their fish or crops, reminding them to take their medicine, or surveying the epicenter of the latest outbreak of disease. Never before in history has so much information been available to so many people in the most remote corners of the globe.
To think that this revolution is merely in its infancy is astounding. But with it comes challenges to do it right, be flexible enough for change, and to harness the technology to do what we need it to do, and not what it dictates to us. These are the challenges, but the opportunities are boundless.
Features
Credit Card Know More About You Than Your M.D.?
Lack of information is a big challenge facing health systems
Are Cell Phones Leading the mHealth Revolution?
Mobile phones leapfrog over landlines and lagging Internet
Is Open Source Good for Global Health?
Legal and free, it can be shared, adapted and reused
Low-Tech Saves Lives
Intervention addresses postpartum hemorrhage in low-resource settings
AIDS Hotline for Ethiopian Health-Care Workers
A toll-free telephone service that provides accurate and up-to-date information
The Million Dollar Email
Raising $25 million online by keeping the message simple
Rwanda’s Living Legacy of Violence and Healing
Women of Rwanda, were impregnated by their captors, contracted HIV/AIDS, or both
Online Exclusives
Going Viral
What's hot online
Dim Sum
A collection of film picks, book reviews, and other items of note
Cool Escapes from the Hot Zone
Discovering the dungeons and dragons of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Field Notes
The death of his younger brother spurs a physician to action
