Linux Journal
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Designing an architecture for delivering mobile information services to the rural developing world
Designing an architecture for delivering mobile information services to the rural developing world
Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid, the: eradicating poverty through profits
Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid, the: eradicating poverty through profits
One laptop per child: vision vs. reality
Communications of the ACM - One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality
How computer science serves the developing world
Communications of the ACM - One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality
WiLdnet: design and implementation of high performancewifi based long distance networks
NSDI'07 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Networked systems design & implementation
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Modern information and communications technologies (ICTs) are now so feature-rich and widely available that they can be used to ''capture,'' or collect and transmit, health data from remote settings. Electronic data capture can reduce the time necessary to notify public health authorities, and provide important baseline information. A number of electronic health data capture systems based on specific ICTs have been developed for remote areas. We expand on that body of work by defining and applying an assessment process to characterize ICTs for remote-area health data capture. The process is based on technical criteria, and assesses the feasibility and effectiveness of specific technologies according to the resources and constraints of a given setting. Our characterization of current ICTs compares different system architectures for remote-area health data capture systems. Ultimately, we believe that our criteria-based assessment process will remain useful for characterizing future ICTs.