Holly Ladd

Holly Ladd replied to "Internet-based systems to report malaria cases in Ethiopia" in the Health IT community.

Hi everyone -- We have just completed the development of a platform called GATHER that was designed as an open source tool to enable the use of cellular networks for data collection, alert generation and reporting. We tested GATHER in Uganda with 20 health centers reporting weekly disease surveillance data and it work quite well for this purpose. GATHER is a platform that includes the capacity to create forms and send those forms out to ...

Holly Ladd replied to "rapidSMS, an SMS platform for health systems" in the Health IT community.

You may also want to consider GATHER. We are partnering with several projects using this platform to create forms for java enable phones (openrosa) at the moment but soon to other phone os's. GATHER gives you the capacity to collect large amounts of data on a single or multiple forms resident on the phone and have that data sent to mysql database. see: http://www.healthnet.org/gather

Holly Ladd started a discussion "OpenRosa presentation by Neal Lesh" in the Health IT community.

Please do share with people at the meeting in Lima that the GATHERdata code was released today and is available on github.com Holly Ladd

Holly Ladd replied to "MIT Team: Income Generating Projects for HIV/AIDS patients" in the Health IT community.

Actually, Joaquin, we never did offer the bible for our program, but some of users downloaded it to their handsets themselves! In Uganda we have provided medical text books, treatment guidelines and drug references on the mobile devices. We also package and send out continuing ed modules on specific topics three times per week, as well as articles from the local newspapers. We have developed a program called GUIDE that takes content and converts it ...

Holly Ladd replied to "Wireless networking where electricity is scarce" in the Health IT community.

Yes - in fact we have a device called the African Access Point that we have been using in Uganda and Mozambique for a few years. The device is a wireless router - rebuilt from the board up to meet the needs of these environments. Briefly - the AAP is a wireless router that runs on a battery that is charged using solar. It communicates via infrared, bluetooth, wifi modules and has an ethernet jack ...