TayoPH.org

03/04/2013

Care about our health care system? Budding social entrepreneur?

We're joining the Ashoka Changemakers and Boehringer Ingelheim in a Twitter discussion as we talk transforming health systems through gamechanging business models!

Join and at on April 4, 15.30-17.30GMT+7.

15/03/2013

Meet the team behind TayoPH.org! Just finished the final pitch for Project Pagsulong! So grateful for this amazing opportunity!

08/03/2013

An overview of TayoPH, infographic style!

17/02/2013

The sad part is this isn't a horror story, it's the status quo. Health financing in our country needs to change, and soon.

Nena rises at 4 a.m. to cook a pack of instant noodles for her four children. Her live-in partner, Jojo, has gone to ply his tricycle route. He makes only about P300 a day and is still paying for the loan he took out (at 5-6 rates) to buy the tricycle.

22/01/2013

TayoPH.org in 100 seconds! Thanks to the folks at Project Pagsulong for the video!

TayoPH.org is comprised of Lauren, Gladys, Janet, Dino, and Eric. They aim to revolutionize local healthcare through a crowd-funding platform that utilizes t...

21/01/2013

"Innovative solutions to social problems are not only desired but are also urgent."

In its broadest sense, social entrepreneurship is about innovative solutions to social problems. In countries like the Philippines where poverty and inequality are worsening despite economic growth, innovative solutions to these problems are not only desired but are also urgent.

17/01/2013

"We're actually not techies; we're health care people and we had an idea," Karen Michaeli, COO and a co-founder of Hatch -- It always starts with an idea!! Let's mobilize those neurons! :)

A crowdfunding and beta-testing platform's creators hope to change the way health care products and apps go to market. Based in Iowa City, Health Tech Hatch combines testing and funding into one website, allowing developers to receive feedback …

16/01/2013

Crowdfunding is hot!!! :)

Health Affairs is the leading peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of health, health care, and policy.

16/01/2013

“Plans are useless, but planning is everything." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

In today’s fast-changing world, why freeze your strategic thinking in a five-year plan?

16/01/2013

"Rather than converting educational content to an online medium, Firecracker focuses on problems that technology is best suited to solve, he said. The site works by asking students what they want to study, and then giving a quiz on the topic. Depending on how well the student knows the material, Firecracker will help to guide the studying process by making study recommendations, giving additional quizzes, and keeping track of what the student knows and when they need to review it."

-- another e-innovation for improving patient care in the future!

Of the 40,000 first- and second-year medical students in the U.S., 10 percent are...

16/01/2013

We're live! You can now visit http://www.tayoph.org and click Join Us to stay updated. Twitter users can also follow us as we bring crowdfunding for health and communities to the Philippines.

05/12/2012

A little bit more news for all of you: we just got word that our abstract has been accepted for presentation as a social enterprise at the 10th annual Global Health and Innovation Conference at Yale University in early 2013!
One more step closer towards bringing crowd funded healthcare to the Philippines!