Get introduced to the possibilities of mHealth and volunteering and see its impact.
2. What to expect in this talk mHealth Definition mHealth
importance mHealth in developed countries mHealth in developing
countries mHealth challenges mHealth +FOSS Why FOSS is important
here? How to get involved? Projects:Raxa/Walimu Q&A 3. what is
mHealthmHealth or mobile health is defined asmedical and public
health practice supportedby mobile devices, such as mobile
phones,patient monitoring devices, personal digitalassistants
(PDAs), and other wirelessdevices.Image source: Leroy Jones 4.
mHealth:Unlimited opportunitiesmHealth has a huge potential to
improve thecost, quality and convenience of healthcarein coming
years all around the world.Image source: Keith Negley 5. mHealth:
Categories.Image source: Robert Kaplan 6. mHealth: Developed
countries Focus is on aging population, fitness,chronic diseases
Often uses higher end technology and ismostly for high-income
consumers 7. mHealth:Developing CountriesPhoto source: Der
SpiegelData source: data.worldbank.org 8. mHealth:Developing
Countries Goal is to solve third world problems Bring healthcare to
underserviced areas Better information distribution to
solveproblems like malaria, polio, pre-natal
care,epidemics-management Often uses basic mobile functions like
calls,SMS and is geared for lower-income, illiteratefamilies 9.
mHealth:Success stories 10. mHealth: Challenges. FinancialBusiness
modelFundingSustainabilityCulturalLanguageAttitudeGender
rolesCapacityTechnical capacity(support and development)Human
capacity (training)InfrastructureOtherRegulationsPrivacy 11.
mHealth-FOSS = Plant in a potLet it grow and reach its potential!
12. Free and open source softwareUser can run, copy, distribute,
study, changeand improve the software.*free as in freedom 13. FOSS:
Why it fits perfectly low costWhile maintenance and training costs
are stillassociated with FOSS, the total cost ofownership is low
localizationFOSS can help in creating tailored-fits/w for
developing countries Evolving capacityAfter all open source is a
community effort,hence it evolves faster ex :- openOffice, mozilla
14. mHealth+FOSS+you=HumanitechThis is where we all can get
involved andcontribute to the growth of humanitariantechnologies
and experience the era ofsocial innovation (the next big
revolution) 15. mHealth:Get involvedAnybody who is interested can
and shouldget involved not matter whats your field. Gain
experience, skills, on line portfolio Learn new skills Appreciate
issues more closely [email protected], [email protected]
16. mHealth: Projects of my interestRaxa: free healthcare
information system and anopen-source electronic medical record
(EMR) formostly poor, sometimes illiterate, patients and
theiroverworked providers.Walimu: clinical decision support system
isdesigned to assist clinicians in making decisionsabout patient
care. 17. Resources mHealth Alliance: www.mhealthalliance.org
Walimu: http://www.walimu.org/ Raxa: http://www.raxa.org/ Engineers
without borders:
http://www.ewb-usa.org/projects/locate-project/project_334 Harvard
Developers for Development: http://harvardd4d.wix.com/home
https://github.com/, http://sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/ 18. Q&A 19. Thank You! 20. Demo
linksRaxa site:-http://www.raxa.org/content/what-we-doRaxa demo
:-http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KwStciTu8CcWalimu
flowchart:-https://www.lucidchart.com/documents/view/4d21-37f4-51364614-8faa-27160a005798Walimu
mockups:-https://moqups.com/elijahgoldberg/6zv2tprm/p:aab413496
