?Mobile money can change the efficiency of health services.? ? Pamela Riley, Senior mHealth Advisor of Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Project.This was the premise behind SHOPS?s four panelist presentation and discussion, ?Follow the mMoney: How Mobile Money Can Improve Public Health?, on Friday, September 14th. The event was held at George Washington University?s ?The Mini-University (Mini-U)?, a one day forum for global health professionals around the world to share ideas and learn from one another.As stated by Pamela Riley at the beginning of the presentation, there are currently many inconsistent and confusing terms referring to mobile money, such as SMS payments and mobile finance. However, mobile money (mMoney) can be said to be where mobile banking (conducting banking activities such as checking your balance and transferring money through a mobile device) and mobile payments (paying for goods and services through a mobile device) collide.It is in improving both aspects of mobile money; mobile banking and mobile payments that people can be reached in new and innovative ways in health care, on both the provider and patient side. Through mobile money, health care providers can pay workers, reward patients for treatment compliance, encourage healthy behavior, provide vouchers or conditional aid, and even improve supply chain management. On the other side, patients can pay health care providers, pay their insurance premiums, receive claims, and more effectively evade informal payments (i.e.
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Paying for Health Care through your Cell Phone
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Source: http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/09/18/paying-for-health-care-through-your-cell-phone/
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