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Can mobile phones and game mechanics help improve sanitation?

Can mobile phones and game mechanics help improve sanitation?

Despite the fact much has been done in recent years to improve sanitation, in some countries a startlingly low 15% of the population has access to clean water resources. Many governments and organisations have been working together to promote behavioural change within communities in traditional ways, but given the recent statistic that more people across the globe now own a phone than they do a toilet certainly suggests that mobile technology could present a rather interesting and possibly … Read entire article »

Filed under: Mobile Phone Apps, Professional healthcare products

Mobile phones to help people with Parkinson’s Disease

Mobile phones to help people with Parkinson’s Disease

Connected Health systems might soon be playing a major role in helping people with Parkinson’s Disease. An academic at the University of Portsmouth, hopes to develop two mobile phone Apps to enable the thousands of people with Parkinson’s improve their speech and allow them to be better understood by family, friends and healthcare workers. Dr Eglin, of the university’s Department of Creative Technologies, recently received a £35,000 innovation grant from leading research charity Parkinson’s UK to develop the … Read entire article »

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