Hand Held Health

Students at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have developed a system to connect health workers in the third world with trained medical professionals, a scarce resource in developing nations, and they’re calling it Sana.

Sana aims to revolutionize health care delivery for rural, underserved populations by providing an open sourced Android-based, telemedicine platform for clinical research and best-practice health care delivery.

Sort of like a mobile LinkedIn of health care, Sana is accessible to anyone within range of a cell phone tower which is good news for about 80 to 90% of the worlds population!

By connecting semi-trained health care workers all over the world to participating health care professionals, Sana has the potential to revolutionize health care for underserved populations across the globe.

Check out their current projects in India and the Philippines and find out how you can help Sana expand.

To find out more, check out the resources below:
MIT's Story on SANA
Sana Mobile
Unreasonable Institute Finalist: Sana Care Anywhere