September 13, 2009

DataDyne and its EpiSurveyor project were picked from more than 500
entries to win the WSJ Technology Innovation Award in the Category of
Healthcare IT. Special kudos to the development team, including Tia Gao, Ahmed Maawy, George Njuguna, Solomon Kariri, Geoffrey
Mimano, Denis Ivaykin, and Wilson Bandi, and to all the help in testing
from the Kenyan Ministry of Health, coordinated by Yusuf Ibrahim -- and
thanks to our funders, the United Nations Foundation and the Vodafone
Foundation, without which none of this would have been possible.

From the article:

"With EpiSurveyor, developed with support from the United Nations Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation, health officials can create health-survey forms that can be downloaded to commonly used mobile phones. Health workers carrying the phones can then collect information—about immunization rates, vaccine supplies or possible disease outbreaks—when they visit local clinics. The information can then be quickly analyzed to determine, say, whether medical supplies need to be restocked or to track the spread of a disease."

You can read the full article at:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020344010457439971409616765...

What the article doesn't mention is that anyone can log onto www.episurveyor.org and begin using it to collect, analyze and report data in minutes for free, but we hope this will help us get the word out.

P.S. Great followup article from our friends at the UN Dispatch:

http://www.undispatch.com/node/8875