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Highlights from Day 2 At the mHealth Summit: Learning from Failure

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December 7, 2011

Day 2 at the mHealth summit can be summed up by one word: failure. But in a good way: a session on maternal and child health in Africa offers opportunities in which participants might learn from past mistakes.

Day 1 Highlights of mHealth Summit 2011

Tom Murphy
December 6, 2011

A roundup of the best of the first day of the mHealth summit.

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