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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...
Read moreApp 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...
Read moreInnoVaTe 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...
Read morePediatrician’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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreIs 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...
Read moreBTV 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...
Read moreMobile Medical Platform Helps Fight Child Mortality
In some low-income countries, where there is a shortage of doctors, the odds are there are children who may never actually get to see a physician. But a unique collaboration...
Read moreMedical app from Burlington debuts in Bangladesh
A medical mobile app designed to save the lives of children with potentially life-threatening medical conditions has begun its first phase of field testing…