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FrontlineSMS: MedicAaron Uhrmacher
85%MALAWIANS LIVINGIN RURAL AREAS
Limited infrastructure prevents health workers from delivering efficient healthcare to rural areas.
• Health workers travel on foot.
• Record patient interactions on paper.
• Bring records to a central clinic for further instruction.
• Don't get back to the clinic more than once a month.
• Patients remain untreated too long.
Situation Analysis
Functioning
• Health
• Employment
• Education
Capability
• Live longer, healthier life
• Maintain employment
• Family time
• Overall quality of live improved
?How can mobile phones improve
health care
people living in remote areas of the world 50% who will have mobile phones by 2012.
FrontlineSMS
• Started in 2005
• Open source platform
• Runs with laptop and cell phone
• Used to communicate via SMS with large groups of people
• Basis for FrontlineSMS: Medic
August - December 2009
BENEFITS
• Software is free
• Ease of use
• Internet not required
• Replicable
• Saved history
6 Month Pilot (Malawi)
• Hospital serves 250K people
• Patients live as far as 100 miles away in 700 different villages
• 450 community health workers recruited as volunteers
Technology•75 Motorola V195 cell phones ($15/ea)
•15 Nokia 6210 cell phones ($40/ea)
•10 Nokia 6100 cell phones ($50/ea)
•1 Falcom SAMBA75 GSM modem ($200)
•1 Compaq Presario laptop (donated)
•100 cell phone chargers + Malawian adapters
•FrontlineSMS software (free)
Results
• 150 patients received care
• 2x more patients seen
• 1,000 travel hours saved
• US$3500 saved on fuel
MORE INFO
• http://instedd.org/
• http://mobihealthnews.com/
• http://www.frontlinesms.com/
IMAGE CREDITS• Slide 1: http://www.jopsa.org/
• Slide 2: http://www.isaacholeman.org/
• Slide 3: http://www.jopsa.org/
• Slide 8: http://change.org
• Slide 10: http://www.jopsa.org/
• Slide 11: http://www.isaacholeman.org/
• Slide 12: http://www.jopsa.org/
• Slide 13: http://frontlinesms.org/
• Slide 14: http://mobilesinmalawi.blogspot.com
• Slide 16-18: http://www.trekearth.com/