‘An Opportunity Here to Really Help’: VT Tech Companies Poised to Address Coronavirus Challenges
Technology companies say they have a role to play in the world’s response to the growing threat from coronavirus…
THINKMD Partners with Healthy Learners to Scale School-based Health Program in Zambia
In Zambia, many school-aged children, ages 6-18, do not have reliable access to basic healthcare services. For decades, global health funding has focused on newborns and children under 5 years old but has largely ignored these school-aged children…
FHI Ventures to invest in four new social enterprises
FHI Ventures, an impact investing company supporting early-stage enterprises that provide products and services designed for social good, has selected four new companies to participate in its 2019 accelerator program…
Development and Initial Validation of a Frontline Health Worker mHealth Assessment Platform (MEDSINC) for Children 2–60 Months of Age
Abstract. Approximately 3 million children younger than 5 years living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) die each year from treatable clinical conditions such as pneumonia, dehydration secondary to diarrhea, and malaria. A majority of these deaths could be prevented with early clinical assessments…
Two Vermont startups saving lives around the world
Two Vermont companies making a difference internationally, have joined together to bring their innovative technologies together…
How a new digital partnership can improve health care services in developing countries
By combining medical knowledge with a data collection and analysis platform, a new partnership between digital health care support companies THINKMD and Ona is aiming to deliver innovative health services and support to people living in developing countries…
Integration Between MEDSINC and OpenSRP will Link Community-Level Clinical Data with National Health Information Systems
THINKMD and Ona announced today a technical partnership focused on integrating the functionality of THINKMD’s MEDSINC frontline health worker clinical assessment platform with OpenSRP…
THINKMD included in the WHO compendium of innovative health technologies for low-resource settings, 2016- 2017
WHO compendium of innovative health technologies for low – resource settings 2016-2017 provides information about novel advancements that offer a new solution to address unmet health needs. It celebrates the work of those who create inexpensive tools that can be used effectively even in challenging care delivery environments…
Barry Finette on the Hopes and Challenges for THINKMD’s Life-Saving mHealth Platform
DAI and THINKMD connected in 2016 through DAI’s Innovation into Action Challenge. Our strategic partnership will leverage DAI’s international development network to bring THINKMD’s digital health products to new markets, while THINKMD’s technology will enhance DAI’s global health toolkit…
NEXT TECH AND BEYOND: BARRY FINETTE BRINGS DIAGNOSTIC HELP TO CHILDREN’S HEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
Barry Finette is a pediatrician and co-founder and president of THINKMD, a global healthcare innovation company in Burlington. While work in developing nations…