E-health technologies show promise in developing countries.

By Joaquin A. Blaya, Hamish S. F. Fraser, Brian Holt. Health Affairs, 2010

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How smartphones are changing the face of mobile and participatory healthcare: an overview, with example from eCAALYX (2011, unknown): “Several previous studies have evaluated the use of mobile phones to support healthcare and public health interventions, notably in the collection and collation of data for healthcare research [12], and as used in support of medical and healthcare education and clinical practice in the community [13]”
Systematic review on what works, what does not work and why of implementation of mobile health (mHealth) projects in Africa (2014, background): “The use of mHealth services can have the potential to improve affordability of interventions for health promotion, increase health education and disease prevention [7-10].”
The Smartphone in Medicine: A Review of Current and Potential Use Among Physicians and Students (2012, background): “Several examples demonstrating the smartphone’s role in communication can be found in developing countries with scarce resources [45].”
E-health in low- and middle-income countries: findings from the Center for Health Market Innovations. (2012, background): “of programmes) Extending geographic access (74) Data management (67) Facilitating communications (55) Improving treatment & diagnosis (29) Mitigating fraud & abuse (14) Streamlining financial transactions (7) Other (13) Unknown (15) Pe rc en ta ge o f a ll”