29 July, 2009

Mobile phones for public health

Trying out the Nokia E71 - 3

Video: Nokia & mHealth in emerging markets | mobihealthnews


Here’s a video (via MobileActive.org) that showcases Nokia’s Data Gathering application for the E71. The video shows the Amazonas’ State Health Department in Brazil using the devices and application to monitor and treat outbreaks of dengue fever. In developing markets one of the key problems for caregivers and public health workers is recording and managing data collection on health issues for large populations. The application featured below shows the type of technology replacing the clipboard abroad, but similar technologies are being deployed across hospitals in the U.S. like mobile clinical assistants (MCA) that sync up to a hospital’s EMR.










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