May 1, 2009

"With 2·2 billion mobile phones in developing countries, mobile technology can be used to detect and respond to disease outbreaks and improve public health and health care," says Kelly Morris in The Lancet. The article discusses DataDyne's EpiSurveyor project and includes a DataDyne.org photo of a health worker in Zambia using EpiSurveyor on a Palm PDA to collect measles coverage information for the Ministry of Health -- the first time a developing country ministry of health successfully performed a national survey on PDAs without the benefit of programmers, technologists, or foreign consultants (and without their associated costs!).

Link to article at The Lancet:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(09)70118-5/fulltext

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