It is with great pleasure and excitement that I announce the formal recognition by Apple of the Health eVillages program, featuring our Skyscape app!  Over the last few months film crews from Apple have traveled to both our office in NYC, and one of our pilot sites in Lwala, Kenya, to capture their products being [...]

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.

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.

Wonderful day today traveling from Kisumu, Kenya down to Lwala! Most of the journey we spent traveling to the Rift Valley, a very fertile stretch of land that so contradicted the dry portion of Uganda where I have been spending my time.

Angels of Hope and now Health eVillages are part of the rebuilding of this beautiful community, so recently afflicted with such violence. The health clinic stands as a beacon of hope in the area, with many mothers walking miles with their children for the very inexpensive, clean health care.

Another great day at Angels of Hope Matugga Clinic!  Day Two of Health eVillages training allowed for a follow-up with Nurse Anet and the addition of Doctor Ivan, the Director of the clinic and the technological expert within Angels of Hope. Yesterday I was so impressed by how quickly Anet learned, and today Ivan was [...]

Here we are at the end of Day 1 Health eVillages Africa trip 2012! Thanks to everyone who helped to make this trip possible; there is excitement in the air as the training begins! Today we traveled to the first clinic of our partner, Angels of Hope, located in Matugga, Uganda. Angels of Hope offers [...]