i AM NEW TO eNGINEERING FOR cHANGE. i READ YOUR ARTICLE ABOVE WITH INTEREST. WHILST i get THE SIMPLICITY OF PAPER, IT IS NOT WITHOUT ITS PROBLEMS…. POOR HANDWRITING, DAMAGE IN TRANSIT, TIME TO DELIVER TO HOSPITALS, oPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION ISSUES, NO AUDIT FOR LOST RECORDS AND SO ON.
tHE ISSUES WITH PHONES AS RECORDERS ARE evident, NO QUESTION – BUT it seems such a pity to not make best use of such a powerful pocket computer…
1. SMALL BACKUP POWER PACKS CAN GIVE ANY PHONE 2-3 DAYS LIFE WITHOUT NEEDING A POWER POINT.
2. eNCRYPTED TRAFFIC IS not difficult – i WORK IN THIS AREA AND IT IS ACHIEVABLE.
3. well designed APPS ENSURE NO LOST DATA… THEY FORCE INTEGRITY CHECKING.
4. APPS CAN GUIDE THE MEDIC THROUGH THE APPROPRIATE QUESTION SEQUENCE THUS REMOVING UNNEEDED QUESTIONS FROM VIEW – SIMPLIFYING THE PROCESS.
5. PHONES ARE INTEGRATING WITH SENSORS… hr, BLOOD PRESSURE, AND SO ON… THROUGH EVER MORE STANDARDISED PROTOCOLS…. MEANS MORE ACCURATE CAPTURE DIRECT TO THE APP AND TIME SAVINGS TO BOOT.
6. AUTO CAPTURE OF TIME, GEOLOCATION AND SO ON, SAVE THE MEDIC RE-INPUTTING THIS DATA OVER AND OVER.
7. forms and questions change… auto upload to phone makes it possible to be current always.
I know there are practicality issues, but phones are being used in the harshest of environments these days. From your article above it sounds possible that the biggest obstacle may be digital literacy. the gain from resolving that would be great and would lead the way to using phones for all sorts of more advanced field applications in the future.
Regards,
Shane
i am already a member but because of busy shady these days i have been not active and i have missed a lot as far engineering for change is concerns but what caught my eyes is the upgrading electronics with paper cards smooths the work to digitize medical records in rural uganda its very good innovation but i think not every mother in the village has smart phone, or it does not matter which phone whether its a smart phone and more so not every one knows how to use the phone because even some nurses have to be tough how to use it
otherwise thanks for the innovation
best regard
from Simon
A teetering stack of documents on a storage-room shelf can pass for a medical record filing system in some sub-Saharan African hospitals. Looking up a patient’s history can...
Hi ROB,
i AM NEW TO eNGINEERING FOR cHANGE. i READ YOUR ARTICLE ABOVE WITH INTEREST. WHILST i get THE SIMPLICITY OF PAPER, IT IS NOT WITHOUT ITS PROBLEMS…. POOR HANDWRITING, DAMAGE IN TRANSIT, TIME TO DELIVER TO HOSPITALS, oPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION ISSUES, NO AUDIT FOR LOST RECORDS AND SO ON.
tHE ISSUES WITH PHONES AS RECORDERS ARE evident, NO QUESTION – BUT it seems such a pity to not make best use of such a powerful pocket computer…
1. SMALL BACKUP POWER PACKS CAN GIVE ANY PHONE 2-3 DAYS LIFE WITHOUT NEEDING A POWER POINT.
2. eNCRYPTED TRAFFIC IS not difficult – i WORK IN THIS AREA AND IT IS ACHIEVABLE.
3. well designed APPS ENSURE NO LOST DATA… THEY FORCE INTEGRITY CHECKING.
4. APPS CAN GUIDE THE MEDIC THROUGH THE APPROPRIATE QUESTION SEQUENCE THUS REMOVING UNNEEDED QUESTIONS FROM VIEW – SIMPLIFYING THE PROCESS.
5. PHONES ARE INTEGRATING WITH SENSORS… hr, BLOOD PRESSURE, AND SO ON… THROUGH EVER MORE STANDARDISED PROTOCOLS…. MEANS MORE ACCURATE CAPTURE DIRECT TO THE APP AND TIME SAVINGS TO BOOT.
6. AUTO CAPTURE OF TIME, GEOLOCATION AND SO ON, SAVE THE MEDIC RE-INPUTTING THIS DATA OVER AND OVER.
7. forms and questions change… auto upload to phone makes it possible to be current always.
I know there are practicality issues, but phones are being used in the harshest of environments these days. From your article above it sounds possible that the biggest obstacle may be digital literacy. the gain from resolving that would be great and would lead the way to using phones for all sorts of more advanced field applications in the future.
Regards,
Shane
i am already a member but because of busy shady these days i have been not active and i have missed a lot as far engineering for change is concerns but what caught my eyes is the upgrading electronics with paper cards smooths the work to digitize medical records in rural uganda its very good innovation but i think not every mother in the village has smart phone, or it does not matter which phone whether its a smart phone and more so not every one knows how to use the phone because even some nurses have to be tough how to use it
otherwise thanks for the innovation
best regard
from Simon