The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (www.ieee.org) has organized a major workshop on e-Health in the EA region.The theme of the workshop is " The role of ICT in streamlining and increasing access to healthcare in the developing world. Its a two day workshop which started yesterday and ends today ( 28th - 29th July 2011 ) at the Kenya Institute of Education (KIE ) Nairobi Kenya.

"Business unusual" said the Provincial Nursing Officer of Western Province Matron Asumpta Mateke while officially closing the Five day Training supported by UNICEF Kenya Country office.The training targeted the DHMT members of 31 districts in the province.Over 90 participants were trained and due to the large number the participants were split in to two and trained for one and a half days.This was a TOT training whose main objective is to use Mobile Phone during support supervision on Child and Maternal visit to the facilities while addressing MDG 4 and 5.The province has integrated data co

The theme of Malezi Bora for the Month of May 2011 was "Improving the Healthy Mothers and the New Born Babies".Health workers at the National level led by Mr. Benard wambu the M&E Programme officer at the Division of Division of Adoloscence and Child Health used EpiSurveyor to monitor the critical indicators in the field.The officers were assigned to all the provinces of Kenya to collect data from the clients and the health workers in the field.

Excellent article on the WHO website talking about use of EpiSurveyor for polio eradication. 

Over the weekend i attended a training organised by Dr. Okoth , the Provincial Epidemiologist of Nyanza Province.UNICEF Kenya Country office facilitated all the required logistics for about 90 Health mangers drawn from all the District in Nyanza Province.  ( Many thanks to Dr. Okoth and Dr. Grace Miheso ( UNICEF KCO ) for making it possible and above all to the trainees.

Today,Jason Peat  who is the senior Health Officer for Malaria Health and Care Department of International Federation of Redcross and Red Cresent Societies accompanied by Jenny Cervinskas and Karen Bramhill paid a courtesy call to Datadyne Nairobi Office.

Met with the Provincial Disease Surveillance officer of Nyanza province Mr. Elly Nyambok.I went there to support him in using the EpiSurveyor Web version for data collection during support supervision.In the Ministry of public Health we use EpiSurveyor for collecting data through our integrated checklist.

By the time we left him he was comfortable with the new technology and happy that he will be no longer going through the tedious manual work.Mobile phones making our work easier,We thank Datadyne for giving us the required support

This is the message we gave to KEMRI/CDC yesterday.We got a request from them to go and give presentation
on EpiSurveyor to their staff. The team wanted to know how EpiSurveyor works and eventually would like to move to web
application and explore the possibility of data collection using mobile cell
phone.

Main Objective of the presentation:

Datadyne and University of Nairobi have started collobaration which aims at promoting mHealth activities within the University and local communities.Saturday 19th/06/2010 marks the turning point as the first batch of lecturers and friends of Naiobi University were trained on EpiSurveyor.

Hot on heels of the just concluded malezi Bora week where Supervisors from MOPHs,UNICEF,WHO and other Partners monitored the activities on real time basis.The team conducted a total of 356 Exit Interviews and visited 116 districts during in the last two weeks.