Medic designs, delivers, and supports world-class, open-source software for health workers providing care in the world’s hardest-to-reach communities.
Employees: 51-200
Founded date: 2009
Investors 1
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| 14.10.2020 | How to recycle, trade in, donate, or sell your iPhone 11 | A new era—and iPhones—were announced during Apple’s Oct. 13 event, and many are already scrambling to get the iPhone 12. If you’re on a contract service plan, your provider will likely offer some sweet deals. Still, people are increasingly ... |
| 27.07.2020 | Five key lessons from founders who launched social impact startups | Shannon Farley Contributor Share on Twitter Shannon Farley is co-founder and executive director at Fast Forward, a tech accelerator for social impact startups. More posts by this contributor Is ethical tech a farce? Legal tech is opening th... |
| 30.03.2017 | Digital technology and health governance | Digital technology and health governance 30-03-2017 Digital technology has the power to transform healthcare in developing countries, but only if it’s used properly, says a new study. Add This Share Buttons Digital technology has the power ... |
| 13.05.2016 | Three ways tech is reinventing a surprising sector | Kevin Barenblat Contributor Kevin Barenblat is a co-founder and the president of Fast Forward. More than 1 million users. Sixteen billion monthly page views. Ninety-nine percent user engagement. If these sound like stats from tech companies... |
| 04.04.2016 | Medic Mobile locks $1 million grant to help community health workers in the developing world | Tech nonprofit Medic Mobile has attained $1 million in unrestricted grant funding from the Peery Foundation for apps that help health workers deliver care to people who lack reasonable access to doctors and hospitals. According to Medic Mob... |
| 24.09.2015 | Patient engagement lessons from Africa (and why American healthcare should listen) | Health check-up by text message A recent study published in The Lancet noted that Kenyan patients who received weekly text message check-ups were 12 percent more likely than a control group to have an undetectable level of HIV virus a year ... |
| 28.04.2015 | Bitcoin Community Rallies to Aid Nepal Earthquake Victims | Kathamndu - earthquake victims living outside after the biggest quake in 80 years. Image via simcsea via Flickr. Nepal has dominated the headlines this week following a devastating earthquake, which at the time of press, had already claimed... |
| 11.02.2015 | Lighthouse Raises Charity Crowdfunding Target in 24 Hours | Lighthouse, the bitcoin-powered crowdfunding application, raised 3.5 BTC for Medic Mobile during its first 24 hours. The Medic Mobile project, Lighthouse's demo campaign, has now been reset to allow for an additional fundraising round to be... |
| 12.09.2014 | Meet the five Google.org-backed startups that are part tech startups, part non-profits | When New York City teacher Charles Best started DonorsChoose — a nonprofit that lets teachers crowdfund projects and supplies for their classrooms — in 2000, philanthropy was still done the old-fashioned way: Wealthy folks went to charity g... |
| 02.04.2014 | The public trial of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, Part II (interview) | The first time I met Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, he was screwing around with a first-person shooter. He was bubbling with excitement because the game, which rendered as beautifully as any native console game, had been built with web technolog... |
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