Mobile solutions for front-line health workers in developing countries

  • Authors:

  • Jim Black;Fernando Koch;Liz Sonenberg;Rens Scheepers;Ahsan Khandoker;Edgar Charry;Brian Walker;Nay Lin Soe

  • Affiliations:

  • Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;Department of Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;Department of Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;Department of Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Healthcom'09 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on e-Health networking, applications and services
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce an architecture for low-cost mobile Health (mHealth) applications that run on health-workers' existing devices. Moreover, we envision extending the phone's capabilities with an external to attach "sensor" modules, such as pulse oximeter, ECG and phonocardiogram. Our design principles are frugality and simplicity. We propose a comprehensive solution to aid health-workers in their daily tasks, at a low-cost and high penetration rate.