It all began in Washington DC, during the mHealth summit which i attended and gave presentation on "fighting Polio using Cellphone late last year(2009). Dr Milen from Amsterdam, who attended the same mHealth conference requested to send medical correspondent from Helsinki
to come to Kenya with the main purpose of writing few public health article on mHealth in Kenya. Kenya is among the priority countries and recipients of Finnish Foreign Aid and our article will be published in Suomen Kuvalehti and Finnish Medical Journal.I accepted her request and followed with my seniors at the Ministry and their request were granted. Between 18-20 January 2010, Dr. Seppo Suomela, a
senior medical correspondent from Helsinki, but who is currently based in Brazil led a mission which also included a journalist to write the article and held series of interviews and field visit to see first hand how we use mobile phone in our day to day work. We went to the field and met the surveillance officers in Nairobi during their routine support supervision.The team were using Episurveyor web version on their mobile phone. Mission main focus were on the following:

• To feature mHealth projects that have been carried out in Kenya
• To feature the feasibility and cost effectiveness of these projects
• To feature areas of success and challenges
• To feature lessons learned
• To feature how these projects can be further utilized in public health in Kenya, and elsewhere.

Teams / officers interviewed were drawn from the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation,World Health Organisation, CDC , and DataDyne developers based in Nairobi. Yesterday the team visited the DataDyne Nairobi office and saw for themselves how the developers works in ensuring that we and the rest of world make our work easy by use of their EpiSurveyor. The developers did demonstrate how the software works and also responded to their questions. Will share with you the article as am told it will take around three weeks before it’s published.