Background Access to mobile phone technology has rapidly expanded in developing
countries. In Africa, mHealth is a relatively new concept and questions arise regarding …

Background Interventions to reduce the burden of disease and mortality in sub-Saharan
Africa increasingly recognize the important role that drug retailers play in delivering basic …

Objectives: Underserved populations can benefit from consumer health informatics (CHI)
that promotes self-management at a lower cost. However, prior literature suggested that the …

While pharmacovigilance systems have made substantial progress in the past several
decades, all pharmacovigilance systems face a common set of ongoing challenges in drug …

Background The recent introduction of mobile phones into the rural Bandarban district of
Bangladesh provided a resource to improve case detection and treatment of patients with …

Background As a result of the recent advancements in technology, the incorporation of
digital interventions into the health care system has gained a lot of attention and adoption …

Capture of surveillance data on mobile devices and rapid transfer of such data from these
devices into an electronic database or data management and decision support systems …

Pharmacovigilance has developed, and continues to develop, a wealth of surveillance
methods, pharmacological knowl‑edge, and measures for preventing patient harm. How …

In recent years, pharmacovigilance has undergone some major changes. First, the patient's
active role in identifying and describing adverse drug reactions (ADRs) has gained …

Background In many malaria-endemic, sub-Saharan African countries, existing
pharmacovigilance systems are not sufficiently operational to document reliably the safety …