New features in Magpi!

Joel Selanikio ON 08 October 2012

Magpi (the “new EpiSurveyor” coming out in January) has more than 40 new features (as well as major improvements to old ones). Here’s the full list of new features: SPEED — Magpi is WAY faster than EpiSurveyor, even over a slow connection. You’ll notice the difference immediately. Fewer page loads, faster code, everything is just much faster. More free data — we’re increasing the annual upload limit for free users by 20% from 5000 per year to 6000 per year registration – register and login using your email address, username,…

More on EpiSurveyor and Data Quality

Joel Selanikio ON 03 September 2012

Recently, I had written about how use of EpiSurveyor not only saves time and money but also improves the quality of collected data (“EpiSurveyor: A Smart Investment in Data Quality”).  My basic point was that collecting data with EpiSurveyor has two quality benefits: enforced data controls – when using an electronic device, data controls can be imposed at the point of data entry, including skip patterns, range checks, etc. rapid view of all data – seeing the data as it is collected lets supervisors identify problems in data collection as they are…

EpiSurveyor: A Smart Investment in Data Quality

Joel Selanikio ON 30 July 2012

I spotted an abstract online today, submitted by by SCMS to the AIDS2012 conference now taking place in Washington, DC. Entitled “A smart investment: the use of mobile technology to conduct the first assessment of the national HIV/AIDS supply chain system in Nigeria”, the abstract notes: “With immediate access to field data, the central team constantly monitored the data for quality and was able to send questions to the field teams and correct errors.” (click to read the full abstract) The abstract notes that EpiSurveyor was the mobile software used…

Why open-source fails at innovation

Joel Selanikio ON 18 July 2012

Why open-source’s business model works against innovation.