DAI and THINKMD today announced a strategic partnership that will use DAI’s extensive international network to bring THINKMD’s digital health products to new markets…
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THINKMD partners with development company DAI to deploy mobile clinical assessment tool
Healthcare technology company ThinkMD has partnered with international development company DAI to bring ThinkMD’s first digital health product to scale. DAI also led ThinkMD’s latest funding round for an undisclosed amount…
Big Data and IoT in Healthcare: Enabling a Greater Good
Wearables typically dominate the IoT media spotlight in healthcare, sharing it occasionally with remote patient monitoring or telemedicine. Each of these technologies focus on individuals and what is happening for a specific person at a specific time. It’s definitely a growing space…
Innovation into Action Challenge Winners Begin to Implement Their Solutions in the Field
In May 2016, DAI and its partners announced four winners in the Innovation into Action Challenge, a competition to identify and support products and services that will help people in developing nations tackle social and economic challenges…
App Made in Vermont for Developing Countries May Soon Benefit American Kids
In 2014, physicians Barry Finette and Barry Heath, both professors of pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, launched a new global health care company. THINKmd would address a health crisis that plagues much of the developing world…
InnoVaTe with Victoria Taylor: Interview with THINKMD’s Dr. Barry Finette
Vermont PBS’s InnoVaTe, hosted Victoria Taylor, is a tech-centric series that highlights some of Vermont’s most innovative and creative businesses. Victoria Taylor talks with physician-founder Dr. Barry Finette to learn more about THINKMD…
Pediatrician’s triage tool for nonMDs seeks to cut preventable disease deaths
A group founded by a University of Vermont Medical School pediatrician believes that a smartphone triage tool aimed at community health workers in developing countries could go some ways to reducing preventable child deaths in these areas…
The future of infant healthcare in developing countries
Ninety-nine percent of all deaths in children less than 5 years old occur in low and middle income countries. Fifty-three percent of these children or 3.5 million die from diseases that are completely preventable with early clinical assessments and treatment interventions…
Is that a pediatrician in your pocket?
In the developing world, life is unsure from the very first breath. In Angola, 167 newborns out of 1,000 won’t make it to the age of 5. It’s a staggering statistic when you stop and think about it: Nearly 17 percent of children born in the country in 2014 won’t make it to 2019…
BTV doctors build tech to save lives
Written by Dan D'Ambrosio at Burlington Free Press, June 4, 2015 Link to the article Every year, an estimated 3.5 million children die for no reason other than the impacts of poverty. These children, ages 5 and younger, die from preventable diseases such as pneumonia,...