mhealth - hype or help? Josh Nesbit, FrontlineSMS: Medic CORE Group Spring Meeting, April 30, 2010

1. - mhealth -
hype or help?

3. going mobile
Photo courtesy of kiwanja.net

4. Source: ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database

5. Ask potential users...

6. St. Gabriel’s Hospital
250,000
people
100
miles
2
doctors

7. Ask potential users...

8. FrontlineSMS + healthcare

9. Text message training

12. Information
Patient care
Logistics

13. Information
- Patient follow-up
- HIV/TB adherence records and status reports
- New symptoms
Pilot
1400 patient updates
400 ART adherence updates
$3,000 of fuel and 2100 hours saved

14. Patient care
- Remote requests for care
- Drug information auto-replies
- Point of care support
Pilot
130 remote patients in 5 months
Enrolled 100 new patients in TB program

15. Logistics
- Drug and supply stockouts
- Support group coordination
- Training and meeting organization
- CHW-CHW communication
- IGA reports

17. hype or help?

18. hype or help?

21. Describe needs
Map out existing infrastructure and assets
Choose a technology (SMS, GPRS, voice, IVR, radio)
Choose a tool
Design, implement, evaluate

22. We can make the technology do what’s needed.
Push us and we’ll innovate together.

23. FrontlineForms

24. PatientView

25. PatientView

27. Mobile Payments

30. Remote diagnostics via MMS
Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA
Photographs courtesy of Dr. Ozcan’s laboratory, UCLA and Science

31. Thank You
Josh Nesbit, Executive Director
Email: josh@medic.frontlinesms.com
http://medic.frontlinesms.com
Twitter: @joshnesbit and @SMSmedic
mobile: +1 540 454 2941