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Cell Phone Applications for Clinical Diagnostic Therapeutic and Public Health Use by Front Line Healthcare Workers

last updated Oct 21, 2011

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Department of Information Systems and the University of Melbourne
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2008
Stage: 
No longer active
Income Level of Target Population: 
All income levels

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Funders: 
Microsoft Research: Digital Inclusion Program

Technology

Technology Used: 
Phones › Apps/Software
Summary: 

Microsoft Research and the University of Melbourne created a suite of applications to be used by front line health workers in Mozambique in order to facilitate care.

Program goals/rationale: 

Despite being one of the world’s poorest countries, Mozambique has extensive cellular network coverage and a high percentage of health workers who own mobile phones. This project, supported by Microsoft Research, aims to take advantage of Mozambique’s ‘wired’ reality.

Key program components: 

The project principals, researchers from the University of Melbourne, have created a suite of applications that can run on standard mobile phones. The applications provide Mozambican health workers with a set of diagnostic and analytical tools, including reference material in the phone’s memory, a calculator for determining drug dosage, and a program for analyzing inputs from medical sensors (e.g., low-cost pulse oximeter probes or a simple electrocardiogram).

The project ran from March 2008 to March 2009 and concluded with an evaluation of the impact and efficacy of the applications suite.

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