MDLinking aims to be a WhatsApp, LinkedIn and virtual reality video library rolled into one to allow doctors from Afghanistan to Angola to share skills Surgeons filming an operation for MDLinking, an app aiming to connect doctors around the world. Photograph: MDLinking Dr Hans Flu, co-founder of MDLinking Photograph: Hans Flu Imagine you’re a doctor…
Tag: Telemedicine
Mansehra’s hospital first to have telepsychiatry programme in KP (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) — Dawn com Pakistan
MANSEHRA: The General and Mental Hospital, Dadar, has become the first health facility in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to launch the telepsychiatry programme to the benefit of mental patients in the region. The programme will help local doctors consult psychiatrists in the Aga Khan Hospital Karachi online about the treatment of their patients. (…) The Abbottabad deputy…
WEBCAST: Roshan: Canada’s Legacy in Afghanistan (November 5, 2015) — AKF Canada
Aga Khan Foundation Canada Published on 12 Nov 2015 In 2003, when the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development established the Afghanistan mobile company Roshan, there was virtually no telecommunications infrastructure in the country. Some Afghans actually had to walk to a neighbouring country to make a phone call. Today, Roshan’s 1,000 towers reach more…
Connecting communities in Afghanistan: An interview with the CEO of Roshan — AKF Canada
Karim Khoja November 5, 2015 – AKFC sat down with the CEO of Afghanistan’s leading telecommunications provider, Roshan, to discuss the importance of connecting communities in Afghanistan. Karim Khoja, a proud Canadian, has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, spanning five countries (Afghanistan, Croatia, Pakistan, Poland and Tajikistan). In October 2015, he…
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light: Can Karim Khoja’s communications revolution help save a country from collapse? — Article by Julia Hanna on Alumni Harvard Edu.
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community security model piloted by Roshan. (Photography by Joël van Houdt) Thirty or forty angry Afghan police officers crowded…
The business value of telepresence technology – Daily Nation Kenya
PHOTO | FILE Some of the latest 3D technologies deliver a real-life sense of presence in a boardroom setting. NATION MEDIA GROUP In Summary As a trademark of telepresence services, tele-surgery creates an in person presence and sense of reality for surgeons and the patient Recently, AccessKenya further plunged its might in this new technology…
Aga Khan Development Network Institutions Successfully Test Cross-Border Teleconsultation Link – AKU News
In an effort to expand eHealth services and bring quality healthcare to more people, the Aga Khan Development Network eHealth Resource Centre (AKDN eHRC), the Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS), Tajikistan and the French Medical Institute for Children (FMIC), Kabul have established a new eHealth setup in Khorog, Tajikistan. On Friday, May 25, 2012, the…
Global Health TV: Aga Khan Development Network and RoshanTelecom’s e-Health / Telemedicine in Afghanistan
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) works to build a sustainable health system for Afghanistan at all levels from basic rural healthcare to tertiary level hospital services. Working with partners, e-health and telemedicine are innovative health interventions which can work in the country despite the ongoing security and access problems. Global Health TV visits the…
Telemedicine between FMIC in Kabul and Aga Khan University in Karachi – from AKU news letter, Download here for more
A telemedicine session between FMIC in Kabul and AKU in Karachi Karachi in 2007. In 2008, the network was expanded through a radio link between FMIC and Bamyan Provincial Hospital – the first time telemedicine became available in a rural health facility in Afghanistan. A second expansion took place when Faizabad Provincial Hospital was connected…
Video: E-Health and Telemedicine in Afghanistan with AKDN and Roshan Mobile
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) works to build a sustainable health system for Afghanistan at all levels from basic rural healthcare to tertiary level hospital services. Working with partners, e-health and telemedicine are innovative health interventions which can work in the country despite the ongoing security and access problems. Global Health TV visits the…
Afghanistan: Roshan’s Customer Base Surpasses Five Million Mark – Roshan Mobile News
June 14, 2011 Kabul, Afghanistan – Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading telecommunications provider, today announced that it is the first mobile operator in Afghanistan to surpass five million active customers, up from 30,000 customers in 2003 when the pioneering company launched its network. The milestone reaffirms Roshan’s position as the number one telecommunications provider in Afghanistan based…
