May 13, 2009

What’s Next: Texting It In

Many developing countries don’t have enough data to accurately track such scourges as child malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, and malaria. To help address this problem, Washington, D.C.- based DataDyne has introduced wireless EpiSurveyor, a free, open-source software package that allows health care workers to create their own data collection forms, download them onto cell phones, and text data back to a central database.

An earlier version of the software that runs on handheld PDAs is already used by regional health officers in every country of sub-Saharan Africa and is supported by the United Nations Foundation-Vodafone FoundationTechnology Partnership, the World Health Organization, and…

Read more at their website:

http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/texting_it_in/

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