IIH in the News
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- MSR and IIH Test Biometrics Prototype
Bill Thies, IIH co-founder and researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR) India, demonstrated a fingerprint authentication system co-developed with Michael Paik (MSR, NYU) in a TB treatment center in Delhi run by Operation ASHA. The system tracks TB delivery by ascertaining that providers meet patients as claimed. In addition to TB, the system is also being piloted by Project Pragati in one of their health resource centers (thanks to MSR interns Julie Weber, Navkar Samdaria, and Aakar Gupta).
- IIHer Wins MIT PSC Fellowship
Radhika Malik, a MIT sophomore, won the institute's Public Service Center Fellowship. The fellowship will support Radhika as she helps deploy IIH's electronic medical record system at Operation ASHA, Delhi's largest TB treatment NGO. This is her second public service tour. She worked with ASHA this past Summer gathering requirements and developing an EMR prototype.
- IIH CEO Named Fellow of the MIT Center for Ethics
Manish Bhardwaj was named a 2008-2009 Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center For Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. As a Center Fellow, Manish will focus on understanding and articulating a central challenge in public service: the chasm between the lives of social entrepreneurs and those they want to serve.
- Radio Interview
- HighTechFever TV show
- MIT Builds A Better Pillbox To Prevent Drug-resistant TB
- Time To Take Your Medicine
- A Smart Pillbox To Improve Medication Compliance
- Spotlighted on MIT's homepage
- Smart Pillbox Could Be A Lifesaver
- Smart pillbox joins the fight against TB
- MIT Honors Humanitarian Tech Invention