WHCC Affordable Health Innovation Global Initiative
The 8th Annual World Health Care Congress is pleased to present the 3rd Annual WHCC Affordable Health Innovations Exhibit. Below are global innovations that will be on display at the Washington D.C. conference.
Faster reporting, reducing errors, and creating a community record: Improving OVC programming with mobile reporting.
Carrie Miller, Catholic Relief Services
Mobile Reporting system designed to track beneficiary data for orphans and vulnerable children. Providing service to 37,749 children already.
Tools and ideas that save mothers and newborns.
Meg Wirth, Maternova
A go to site for connection, technology, and cutting edge thought in global maternal health.
Connecting you to the care you need.
Lifetime Health Medical Group
Connecting patients to their primary care team as they transition through the care continuum.
Medical Home, First-Contact of Call Center in Mexico.
International Partnership for Innovative Health Care Delivery
Patients subscribe to a flat rate of $5 a month to receive health advice through the call center when doctors are limited in rural areas of Mexico.
Technology Solutions for Rural Women
AYZH
Approximately 1600 women die per day due to complications associated with pregnancy or child birth, infection is a leading cause.
Mobile Health Information
Praveen Basaviah, MDHIL
Creating and distributing basic health care information to the Indian consumer via text messaging, mobile web browser, and interactive digital content.
3 Steps to Sales Success in Low Income Communities
Brian Hodgens
Mapping the community to build plans and engaging the consumers through microhealth insurance sales.
Use of Cell phone Technology for Improving Outcomes and Data Quality in Community Based Cluster Randomized Trials
Patricia Hibberd, Massachusetts General Hospital
Cell phone use for maternal and child health program empowers women and their healthcare providers with information, support, and access to higher levels of care.
Mobile Phone Health Interventions Research
Dr. Robyn Whittaker, University of Auckland
Smoking cessation through support of mobile technology using cognitive theory and video diaries.
Lensless Microscopy on a Cell Phone
Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA
Cost effective and light weight alternative to conventional microscopes.
Using Biometrics to Prevent MDR TB
Shelly Batra, Operation ASHA
Biometric monitoring of supervised medication delivery represents a novel and potentially high impact intervention.
Education and Prevention Outreach Programs and Rural Primary Health Care Clinic.
Jessie Stone, Soft Power Health
The clinic provides primary and preventive healthcare for Ugandans in family planning and malaria education, administration, and outreach awareness, averaging 50 patients per day.
VK100 Gurukil: Village Internet Kiosk
Shyam
Remote locations gain internet access through solar powered broadband access.
FMIA: A Rapid, Multiplexed, High-throughput Membrane Immunoassay for Serodiagnosis of Febrile Illness for Low Resource Settings
Sujatha Ramachandran, University of Washington
A cost effective multiplexed assay needed for an alternative to ELISA
Dramatic differences in health, linked to social disadvantages, both between and within countries, as a result of preventable diseases.
Yvette Mirabel, Rice 360
A cost effective multiplexed assay needed for an alternative to ELISA
High Tech, High Touch, Genetics a Model Practice Empowering Consumers
David Nixon, Informed Medical Decisions
Overcoming traditional barriers, by empowering consumers to partner with their physicians and control their medical management.
Lifespring, India- 'No Frills' Quality Maternity Care
International Partnership for Innovative Health Care Delivery
Mid-wife led care models reducing cost and increasing utilization
CFW Shops, Africa-Franchised Network of Pharmacies Tackle Big Killers
International Partnership for Innovative Health Care Delivery
Network of franchised clinics with aim of providing essential, good quality medicine for most common and serious diseases in Africa.
Valencia Region, Spain-Public System Outsources Integrated Care
International Partnership for Innovative Health Care Delivery
Hospitals incentive to draw more patients from other sub-regions and therefore increase revenue.
Vision Spring- Eye Care Through Business in a Bag
International Partnership for Innovative Health Care Delivery
Franchise models trains entrepreneurs in rural locations and provides them with a "business in a bag" to provide screenings and sell reading glasses.
Greenstar, Pakistan- Social Impact Through Branding
International Partnership for Innovative Health Care Delivery
Greenstar is a social marketing organization in Pakistan that aims to improve awareness of family planning and increase access to contraceptive products.
Care Management Organization, U.S.-Tele-Monitoring Solutions Raise Quality, Lowers Cost.
International Partnership for Innovative Health Care Delivery
Monitors chronically ill and elderly patients with a range of remote technologies
Minute Clinic, U.S. – Fact Access to Basic Care
International Partnership for Innovative Health Care Delivery
Walk-in clinic in retail environment treating routine patient ailments
Aravind, India-Complete Eye Care Solution at Low Cost
International Partnership for Innovative Health Care Delivery
An International training facility which consults and trains eye hospitals in other developing countries
HMRI, India- Call Centers and Medical Convoys at Low Cost
International Partnership for Innovative Health Care Delivery
HMRI provides comprehensive and integrated care, leveraging existing telephone infrastructure and network.
Oral Physician: A new Paradigm for Inter-professional Training in Primary Care.
Brian Swann, Harvard School of Medicine
Training dentists with physicians to provide preventive primary care.
Getting Better Together: Shared Medical Appointments
Debra Prescott, Harvard Van Guard Medical Associates Atrius Health
90 minute group patient visit, supported by a team of medical professionals to address all questions.
The Rhythm Pad Driving Change in AF Detection
Chris Crockford, Cardiocity
Simple screening device to provide assurance of heart performance
Working to improve health market performance for better health and financial protection for the poor.
Center for Health Market Innovation, a project of the Results for Development Institute, improves the performance of health markets
Gina Lagomarsino. Principal and Managing Director, Results for Development Institute
Electronic House Visits in an Emerging Economy
Tele-consultants interacts with patients through video conference.
Kevin Devasia, Apollo Hospitals
Crouse Hospital Lung Partners Primary Respiratory Care
90% Education, 10% Intervention for Respiratory care.
Rob Pikarsky, Crouse Hospital Lung
The Integrated Infectious Disease Capacity-Building Evaluation (IDCAP)
Evaluating the impact of a novel set of capacity-building activities for the management and prevention of infectious disease in Africa, at three distinct levels: Individual Clinician Competence, Facility-level Performance, and Patient Health Outcomes.
Marcia Weaver, University of Washington; Kelly Willis, Accordia Health Foundation
