Health IT

We are experimenting with smart tag-enabled patient health posters that can be read by an affordable reader, such as an NFC-enabled cell phone, to aggregate health information based on 'taps' on a common symptom grid. These guides to diseases and symptoms are often found in held posts in the form of a wall poster, or graphical flip books. They provide a quick reference for workers. Since are already used to referring to them, we think they can provide a natural gateway for us to capture passive information about the patient.

Hi Jose, how can one get more information the technology you described? is there a demo somewhere?

Dear ALL,

Recently I tried HTC 4350. Key advantages are:
- notes in notepad, word is possible. One can store data in excel
- uploading softwares is possible
- minutes can be sound recorded
- font size can be increased even though screen is small

Can anyone inform me any statistics software for windows mobile phone available for free use?

Best wishes

Singh

Dear Jose,

Season Greetings

I plan to introduce similar approach in community based MDR TB project. Could you please tell me where from I can download relevant software program for low cost mobile phones, preferably nokia sets and windows mobile.

Best regards,

Dr. Singh

Hi all, I think Christian's covered the general spectrum of devices we can use. To take this further, it helps to determine what data we want to capture and what technology we're using to capture that data.

Right now I can think of two general groups:
1. Electronic identification of anything. For example, if patients are identified using smart cards/ RFID tags, barcodes, or biometrics, a device that has the capability to capture that information without manual entry might be in order. This type of identification like Jose mentioned, might not be limited to patient identification, but could be given to a flip chart of symptoms, or lab results and that data can be electronically captured without physical entry by a user. Here's an example of one project where we've used this in Pakistan as some food for thought. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWl9TNOqZog

2. GPS/image/video/voice - Do we need a device that captures GPS as well? This could be useful for community care in areas that don't have street addresses, or a geographic plot of disease prevalence might be useful, etc. Or maybe you need an image/sound/video recording ...

Hi all, I think Christian's covered the general spectrum of devices we can use. To take this further, it helps to determine what data we want to capture and what technology we're using to capture that data.

Right now I can think of two general groups:
1. Electronic identification of anything. For example, if patients are identified using smart cards/ RFID tags, barcodes, or biometrics, a device that has the capability to capture that information without manual entry might be in order. This type of identification like Jose mentioned, might not be limited to patient identification, but could be given to a flip chart of symptoms, or lab results and that data can be electronically captured without physical entry by a user. Here's an example of one project where we've used this in Pakistan as some food for thought. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWl9TNOqZog

2. GPS/image/video/voice - Do we need a device that captures GPS as well? This could be useful for community care in areas that don't have street addresses, or a geographic plot of disease prevalence might be useful, etc. Or maybe you need an image/sound/video recording for some type of health monitoring and quality control.

Generally a combination of a mobile device and a computer should do the job, with an integration between the data collected on the mobile device and the back end database - which could be a web/desktop application.

Hi all, I'm aware of a pretty decent open source, web-based application for keeping track of information like this. LabKey Server is used actively by folks in the field of HIV/AIDS research. I pulled this detailed case study from their web site, which describes how the Bill and Melinda Gates Funded SCHARP organization uses their system to manage clinical and scientific data collects across literally hundreds of labs and data collection points. http://labkey.com/resources/LabKey_SCHARP_Case_Study_Full_Document.pdf. Something like this should do the job if folks like the open source approach and data needs to be collected and easily shared.