ClickDiagnostics

Approximately 60% of "doctors" in rural India and South Asia have no medical training. It's not only frightening, but an extremely difficult problem to solve. Villagers have limited access to health care, information, and are constrained by few transportation options. Even if they knew where to travel, they would have be no guarantee of receiving better care than what they are getting where they are. How do you bring affordable health care and information to remote locations in developing worlds?

ClickDiagnostics, who came close to grabbing 1st place at the MIT $100k from Diagnostics for All, has a viable solution to bring modern day technologies and health care to these rural villages. Their solution leverages remote networks of entrepreneurs and cell phones to perform diagnosis and deliver valuable health care information such as remedies and locations where villagers can receive the proper treatment. The process is explained below:Continue Reading...