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Mobile health app makes a difference in sub-Saharan Africa
Mobile health app makes a difference in sub-Saharan Africa
May 12, 2009
Mobile health app makes a difference in sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya and Senegal are leading 20 sub-Saharan African countries in adopting EpiSurveyor, a mobile-phone-based research application that is replacing the manual public-health data-collection process.
The EpiSurveyor downloadable software, developed by DataDyne with support from the U.N. Foundation and Vodafone Foundation, is designed to help health workers in remote areas collect and record essential health data. The Episurveyor beta version is under test in the "Malezi Bora" immunization campaign in Kenya.
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