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SANA Mobile

last updated Sep 27, 2011

Overview

Implementing organization: 
SANA
Implementation Partner(s): 
India- Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital and the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, E-Health Points and the Public Health Foundation of India
Legal Status: 
Private (unspecified)
Year Launched: 
2009
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
All income levels

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Summary: 

SANA Mobile's core activity is the development of innovative low-cost wireless technology and the encouragement local leaders in developing countries to develop local solutions enabled by the SANA platform, an open-source point of care diagnostic platform and customizable medical records system for Android mobile phones.

Key program components: 

The Sana open-source software platform enables smart phones or tablet devices running Google’s Android operating system to be used to:
• input patient histories (based on best practice algorithms)
• input multimedia information (including pictures and video)
• integrate with point-of-care diagnostic devices (EKG, Pipeline: Ultrasound, Stethoscope and Colorimetric tests)
• integrate this data to any electronic medical record database

They have customized Sana to work with OpenMRS, the most widely adopted open-source medical record system in developing countries

Program history: 

Sana is a volunteer group of engineers, doctors, social entrepreneurs, public health experts, and students in each of these disciplines, focused on improving the quality of health care in developing countries through leveraging innovations in wireless technology. Sana is based at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Sana won the 2010 mHealth Alliance award and was a runner up in the 2010 Vodafone Wireless Innovation Prize. As a consequence they have secured more funding. This was complemented by in kind grants from MIT that has allowed SANA to develop and implement projects in India in 2010 with further projects planned for imminent implementation in the Philippines and Brazil.

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