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EpiSurveyor Update on BBC's Digital Planet
BBC Digital Planet's Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson talks about Iceland's economy, London's streets . . . and EpiSurveyor.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p006h6qf
Health Research in Cameroon with EpiSurveyor
Health researchers in Cameroon, led by Dr. Mbah Patrick Okwen (health consultant to the Netherlands Development Organization) have been using EpiSurveyor for the last few years to collect critical data concerning a variety of topics including child nutritional status monitoring, community mutual health organizations, investigating governance at hospitals, and watershed and grazing pastures mapping to reduce water contamination and conflict. Without the need for any international consultants!
Haiti Hospital Bed Availability & EpiSurveyor
Been working with a variety of groups including HHS and PAHO to develop a system to track available bedspace in healthcare facilities in Haiti, so that clinicians in small clinics who have patients needing a higher level of care. Very, very challenging given that there is no single group that is taking responsibility for tracking something like that.
Getting Out of the Users' Way
From Economist report on social networking, comes this gem from a former Facebook employee:
“The people at Facebook are essentially utilitarians . . . They want to give people the very best technology for sharing and then get out of their way.”
VOA: There's an app for public health: EpiSurveyor!
Finland's "Suomen Kuvalehti" magazine covers EpiSurveyor
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
Fogarty Center's "Global Health Matters" Focuses on Mobile Health
The newsletter features several case studies and opinions on the use and future of mobile health. It highlights DataDyne.org's work in Kenya in a piece about technology in low resource setting.
EpiSurveyor breaks the 1000 user mark!
Six months after being made public, EpiSurveyor's online site (www.episurveyor.org) just picked up its 1007th user. This means that it's now the most popular web application for public health and international development in the world -- but since it's also the only web application for public health and international development in the world I guess that's a given.
Vodafone head Colao discusses EpiSurveyor!
I had the pleasure of being in the audience as Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao spoke at the mHealth Summit in London last week, and was astonished to find him mentioning our very own EpiSurveyor as an example of the power of mobile technology for public health. He noted, correctly, that EpiSurveyor enables workers to make quicker, better and much more informed responses, and leads to much more informed policy making.
