FrontlineSMS: MedicAaron Uhrmacher

85%MALAWIANS LIVINGIN RURAL AREAS

Limited infrastructure prevents health workers from delivering efficient healthcare to rural areas.

• Health workers travel on foot.

• Record patient interactions on paper.

• Bring records to a central clinic for further instruction.

• Don't get back to the clinic more than once a month.

• Patients remain untreated too long.

Situation Analysis

Functioning

• Health

• Employment

• Education

Capability

• Live longer, healthier life

• Maintain employment

• Family time

• Overall quality of live improved

?How can mobile phones improve

health care

people living in remote areas of the world 50% who will have mobile phones by 2012.

FrontlineSMS

• Started in 2005

• Open source platform

• Runs with laptop and cell phone

• Used to communicate via SMS with large groups of people

• Basis for FrontlineSMS: Medic

August - December 2009

BENEFITS

• Software is free

• Ease of use

• Internet not required

• Replicable

• Saved history

6 Month Pilot (Malawi)

• Hospital serves 250K people

• Patients live as far as 100 miles away in 700 different villages

• 450 community health workers recruited as volunteers

Technology•75 Motorola V195 cell phones ($15/ea)

•15 Nokia 6210 cell phones ($40/ea)

•10 Nokia 6100 cell phones ($50/ea)

•1 Falcom SAMBA75 GSM modem ($200)

•1 Compaq Presario laptop (donated)

•100 cell phone chargers + Malawian adapters

•FrontlineSMS software (free)

Results

• 150 patients received care

• 2x more patients seen

• 1,000 travel hours saved

• US$3500 saved on fuel

MORE INFO

• http://instedd.org/

• http://mobihealthnews.com/

• http://www.frontlinesms.com/

IMAGE CREDITS• Slide 1: http://www.jopsa.org/

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• Slide 8: http://change.org

• Slide 10: http://www.jopsa.org/

• Slide 11: http://www.isaacholeman.org/

• Slide 12: http://www.jopsa.org/

• Slide 13: http://frontlinesms.org/

• Slide 14: http://mobilesinmalawi.blogspot.com

• Slide 16-18: http://www.trekearth.com/