Mobile project may transform patient management in Africa
THE new mHealth4Afrika (Mobile Health for Africa) project is the only Horizon 2020 project awarded to SA out of seven submissions from the country, recognition of its potential.Prof Darelle van Greunen, director of the Centre for Community Technologies at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), with European partner IIMC Research Foundation, initiated and led the 200-page grant application that took 14 months to complete.Horizon 2020 is the biggest European Union research and innovation programme yet, promising more breakthroughs and discoveries by taking great ideas from the laboratory to the market.The Centre for Community Technologies is the only research unit at a South African university that specifically focuses on information and communications technology solutions for Africa, by Africans, in Africa.The mHealth4Afrika project, which launched in November last year, is vast in scope and finance — a €3m grant over three years will support the building of a mobile electron...
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