We had an incredible week launching our newest Health eVillages pilot at the Teche Action Clinics in Franklin, Louisiana!  It was great to see our global program start helping healthcare providers and patients in the United States.  The challenges rural Southern Louisiana health centers face was made worse by the 2010 oil spill.  A recent [...]

The Health eVillages team spent last week at Regis College visiting our Haitian nursing users and launching the Health eVillages Regis College Outreach (HERO) program.  It was a pleasure to spend time with these women.  We hadn’t met with them in-person since last summer when we updated their devices with a number of 3rd party [...]

We recently received this wonderful note from Dr. Mark Newton, one of our pilot contacts. Dr. Newton is a Professor at Vanderbilt University who has also been running the Anesthesiology Department at Kijabe Hospital in Kijabe, Kenya, for the last 13 years. The Health eVillages users at Kijabe are all nurse anesthetists under his guidance. [...]

As we begin 2013, Health eVillages has so much to reflect on from last year!  It was a year filled with new projects, partnerships and some amazing stories.  All-in-all, healthcare providers (HCPs) using Health eVillages devices saw over 20,000 patients in 2012! Let’s start this year with a brief update on our pilot sites: Angels [...]

As the Health eVillages Africa mission trip comes to a close, letters continue to pour in with good news about the affect of the donated Health eVillages Smartphones and mobile medical devices on the healthcare in the community.

It is so easy to come home from these trips abroad and fall back in to our daily routines. What is important is to never forget the people, the communities behind the cause. There are countless charities around the world, working tirelessly, day after day, to improve the lot of their people.

We spent today training at Kijabe Hospital here outside of Nairobi, Kenya!  What a wonderful team of health care providers this hospital has, all so very dedicated to the work that they do.  Kijabe Hospital is a wonderful standard for what health care facilities in Africa can be. 

While I was working with the medical students and staff at Kijabe Hospital, I was told about a man who arrived at the hospital the day before with complications from prostate cancer who could not be saved. During our training, another man arrived at the hospital with similar complications. The staff quickly put the Health eVillages devices to use, searching for treatment protocols that might save the second man from the same fate.

Just the day before, the clinic had admitted Katherine, a patient whose unborn child was at risk for prenatal asphyxia. Apnea in premature births is when a baby’s breathing slows down or stops in short episodes. He watched the video provided by our partners at MedicalAid Films on neonatal resuscitation. He later explained to me that even though they learn this in nursing school, they don’t perform it all the time and so the review was essential.

Matt was able to send us this video blog from Kenya – you can hear the crickets in the background and see the surrounding landscape as he delivers us words of hope from across the world!  Day 9 from Kenya, with Heatlh eVillages from Matthew Linder. – Matt