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New Mobile Health (mHealth) Research Lab Update

PharmAccess's Mobile Health Research Lab in Nairobi, Kenya, researches how mobile technology can be leveraged to provide better access to quality healthcare.

  • Oct 02, 2014

mHealth icoontje 75-300ppi

The Lab uses aspects borrowed from Behavioral Economics to observe how people behave (e.g. what they actually spend money on), rather than only asking for opinions via surveys. At the same time, the Lab uses aspects borrowed from modern-day “agile” software development, in which customers participate from the start in beta-testing the product, helping drive directions.

Click here to read the September 2014 update.