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Navegación de Pacientes Internacional: Una iniciativa para eliminar barreras de acceso a la salud

Navegación de Pacientes Internacional: An initiatve to eliminate barriers to care

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Patient navigation can be defined as personalized support for both families and individuals undergoing care for a variety of medical conditions. Patients and families may be in a particularly vulnerable moment, encountering a number of barriers to care, including misinformation and trouble with language. Navigators aim to act as advocates, facilitating and accompanying patients along …

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Interactive Map of Digital Health Programs and Policies Across the Latin America and Caribbean

Interactive Map of Digital Health Programs and Policies Across Latin America and the Caribbean

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Have a click around! The map is the result of ongoing research, but is nowhere near complete. Information on this topic is scattered and often highly selective because big funders will author publications on the subject, mainly including programs they fund themselves. This means that some of the smaller, community-led digital health efforts can be …

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We should push the digital health industry to be multilingual.

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According to internet penetration statistics, 51% of the world’s population (approximately 3.6 billion people) has access to the internet. Of this percentage, there are three languages ​​that concentrate the largest number of internet users: English, 25.2%, Mandarin Chinese, 19.3% and 7.9% Spanish. However, if we further look into this stat, we find that Chinese-Mandarin is …

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Wejya: The Colombian startup creating affordable automatic respirators to save more lives around the world

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The Wejya device costs just 5% of the price of traditional respirator machines on the market. It was created by a group of Colombians based in Cali. The Wejya Automatic Resuscitator is used for mechanical assisted breathing in hospital settings. Its main features are: User friendly Easy to reproduce and scale Open source Safe for …

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Digital language inclusion: How translation helps to reduce the inequality gap in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Spanish is the official language of 20 countries in the world (plus Ecuatorial Guinea and Puerto Rico). If you add countries that have a high percentage of Spanish speakers, such as Aruba (80%), Belize (52%), or the United States (18%), plus all of the places where Spanish is spoken in some capacity, you’re talking about …

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How ‘user friendly’ are the popular data collection tools? We evaluated 3.

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There are hundreds of options out there when it comes to digital data collection tools. Finding the right one can be a difficult and time-consuming task. So how do you pick out the best option for you when you’re trying to solve your data collection needs? To answer this question, two members of the TecSalud …

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There’s a free, multilingual nonprofit technology use assessment and we give it an A+ !

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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, MEET DOMESTIC (USA) DEVELOPMENT. Many of us spend our entire careers between Washington and somewhere else in the world. When I made the switch from US development to global, I was amazed by how little my colleagues were utilizing the nonprofit resources we develop and use at home in the United States. The …

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Consider translating your digital development materials.

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Why? So more people can understand them! We’re a multi-lingual team. We’re constantly communicating between English and Spanish. We reference best practices, share relevant resources and gather data to use with our partners across Latin America and the Caribbean. While this region isn’t the most popular international development destination, there are a number of smaller …

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Let’s Talk Money: Communicating with Technology Vendor Sales Reps in Digital Development

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Money talk. For many of us working in international development, global health, social impact, the topic of ‘how much does this cost’ can be difficult to navigate. We have worked on both sides of the aisle (in our former lives) and have worked out some strategies for making pricing conversations easier. TecSalud presented pricing navigation …

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Digital Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

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There’s a lot of debate about what to call the industry we work in – the industry of applying technology (hardware, software, connectivity) to contribute to social good. Some popular names include “Technology for Good,” “Digital Development,” and “Information Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D).” Let’s take a closer look at ICT4D, one of the industry’s …

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Does the world really need another “tech for good” organization?

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We’ve all read articles about organizations that are bringing technology to remote, rural communities. Whether it’s developing laptops or drones, lights or fingerprint scanners, all of these groups seem aligned in their mission to implement technology that “does good” for underserved populations. So, when we started TecSalud, we had to ask ourselves the question: Does the …

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