Disease Surveillance & Mapping Project
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A healthcare worker in the Chobe districts compares the old way of gathering data on a paper form to the phone form.
Description
In the Disease Surveillance and Mapping Project pilot PING has equipped health care workers at 16 facilities in the Chobe District of Northern Botswana with HP Palm Pre 2 smart phones. The phones allow the facilities to submit regular reports back to the Ministry of Health and allow the health workers to report real-time disease outbreak data, tag the data with GPS coordinates and blast out SMS disease outbreak alerts to all other healthcare workers in the district. This system has taken the reporting and analysis process between Chobe facilities and the Ministry of Health, which normally ranged from 3-5 weeks,and reduced it to a matter of a few entries on a smartphone and hitting send. Data is now aggregated in real-time on the backend and graphs and reports are generated in a matter of seconds. Currently the pilot is focusing on Malaria but PING and HP are working with the Ministry of Health to expand the project sites and diseases reported by Nov of 2011.
The long-term vision of this project is for there to be a Palm Pre 2 at every clinic across Botswana with health workers in the country using the devices to submit reports to the Ministry, to report real-time disease outbreaks and to follow up with individual cases and screen neighbors utilizing the GPS functionality.
Stakeholders / Project Partners
HP, Ministry of Health, Clinton Foundation, Malaria No More, PING/BAPL, Mascom
Contact Us
For more information or project details please contact us at info@pingsite.org.
