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mHealth in Developing Countries
tion, or spectacle prescriptions.18
Electronic Health Data

Exhibit 3: Aravind Telemedicine

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2007, compliance rates were found to increase by 30-70%.12
However, while SIMPill has found success abroad in Europe, it
has had difficulty scaling in South Africa.
Information Exchange
There are two types of healthcare information exchange challenges that are being solved by mHealth innovations. The first
deals with information exchange to patients, either between
patient and healthcare professional or between patients. With
SIMPill, we have seen information exchange via SMS. However,
voice data is also used frequently in mHealth. In Bangladesh,
TRCL Ltd., a telemedicine firm, in partnership with Bangladesh’s largest mobile operator, GrameenPhone, established
“Healthline,” a health hotline service. Users in rural areas can
dial “7-8-9” on their mobile phones an