Jonathan Jackson

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

Hi Johanna, There are many options out there for this. When you say "internet based" do you mean that the folks reporting cases and epidemics would be doing the reporting over the internet? Depending on where you are in Ethiopia, this may be quick a challenge to keep the connectivity up and running. There are LOTS of mobile solutions out that that would let your users collect data on application running on the phone or ...

Jonathan Jackson replied to "Humanitarian Technology Challenge Conference notes and ID Tiedto Health Records info" in the Health IT community.

Hi Om - Could you elaborate on what you mean by a universal tool or what type of project you are envisioning? On the Mobile side, there are several efforts to great groups of open source tools that can play well together: OpenRosa - a consortium focuses on open source mobile data collection with its first open source collaborative effort being JavaRosa ( http://code.javarosa.org) Open Mobile - a consortium of groups that both develop and ...

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

Johanna, Who are you working with there? Our colleagues at UNICEF set up an SMS based system for tracking plumpynut food supplies, so that system could possibly be utilized for some of this project if it was a good fit. Also, we worked with Tulane's program there to setup a pilot of a robust EMR System called SmartCare, there may be a way to overlap there as well. The Clinton Foundation also has a lot ...

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

Johanna, Have you chatted with Steve Yoon at PMI at CDC? He has some experience with Ethiopia from when he was in GAP and also is very tech-savvy. Are you exploring technical capacity with the universities while you are there? The other thing you could recommend is that they pair whatever IT solution providers you utilize with local technical talent and the technical folks in the Ministry. There is also at least one outsourcing IT ...

Jonathan Jackson replied to "Solar Chargers for Mobile" in the Health IT community.

Isaac - How long have you been using them and have you had any noticeable phone battery life degradation, I just ordered a few on the advice of Josh, and we're looking forward to trying them out in TZ. It is shockingly hard to find the full battery specifications on many of our nokia phones. One issue with the motorola could be that it requires a high AMP draw than the solar charger is unable ...