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• Last Mile Health is a nonprofit that provides access to healthcare for individuals in remote villages in Liberia by offering a digital health education system.

• Why is it important to center community development in healthcare models?

• Read about the tech giants that are innovating healthcare.

Healthcare is among one of the hottest topics circulating around the world right now. It’s an issue that no single person can solve on their own — a frustrating detail for those in critical need of help. One CEO is tired of the inaction and is fighting back by providing healthcare to those in developing communities by sourcing from within those communities. The power is, quite literally, with the people.

Dr. Raj Panjabi is CEO of Last Mile Health — a nonprofit that aids people in remote villages in Liberia and other developing countries who lack basic access to healthcare. Panjabi and his team function on the basic principle that everyone everywhere deserves adequate treatment and has designed a sustainable healthcare model that employs and deploys trained community health workers to places that are not in the public sector.

One way Last Mile Health aims to solve the healthcare crisis is by recruiting people within struggling communities by way of a digital health education system that effectively trains locals to deliver quality frontline care.

Read the full article about tech in healthcare by Jeremy Glass at Mashable