DeRenzi, Brian | 2008
- Author(s): DeRenzi, Brian
- Publisher: Human-computer interaction and design (HCI)
- Pages: 753--762
- Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, pediatric services, health policy, computer applications, tanzania
To combat high infant mortality, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF developed the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) treatment algorithms. The paper describes e-IMCI, a system for administering the IMCI protocol electronically using a PDA in rural Tanzania.
Desai, Brijal and McKoy, Karen and Kovarik, Carrie | 2010
- Author(s): Desai, Brijal and McKoy, Karen and Kovarik, Carrie
- Publisher: Pan African medical journal]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: communication technology, dermatology, mobile telecommunication services, rural health
Most international teledermatology is store-and-forward in nature, a method in which images are stored on a computer and then transmitted electronically to a consulting dermatologist. The paper describes successful systems and identifies future directions.
Desai, Lisa and Barnett, Errol | 2010
- Author(s): Desai, Lisa and Barnett, Errol
- Publisher: Cable news network (CNN)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, maternal and child health, pregnancy, health personnel, rural health, rwanda
A video (5min) on the Rwandan project to hand out mobile phones to community health workers in rural areas in an attempt to increase maternal and newborn health through improved communication.
De Tolly, Katherine | 2012
- Author(s): De Tolly, Katherine
- Publisher: Liebert
- Pages: 18--23
- Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, aids, disease control, health services, south africa
This investigation on using short message services (SMSs) to encourage HIV counseling and testing (HCT), shows that motivational SMSs have more influence in the uptake of HCT than informational SMSs. Thus, motivational SMSs can encourage people to take health-related actions. (Abstract only)
Domingo, Ayedee Ace | 2010
- Author(s): Domingo, Ayedee Ace
- Publisher: Information society innovation fund (ISIF) Asia
- Pages: --
- Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, emergency medical services, data collection, data transmission, disease control, philippines
This project aims to develop a health emergency and disaster information system using SMS and virtual earth technology. Health and other information from a disaster can be sent via SMS with integration into virtual earth software.