Computer screen Yusuf Ibrahim flood colourful maps and charts. On his desk in downtown Nairobi Ibrahim can track outbreaks of the deadly disease and keep an eye on the progress of a potentially more difficult pregnancies. "With the click of a button I can see what is happening across the country," Ibrahim said. "It's amazing."
Ibrahim computer collects vital health and epidemiological data from hundreds of miles away via traveling healthworkers with mobile phones.
"Before, take a few days, weeks, or even a couple of months to learn outbreak in other parts of the country.Now we know almost instantly. speed at which we can now collect health and prevention catapulted to another level, "he says."It has completely changed and saved countless lives. "
Ibrahim said Kenyan mobile phone data collection system, which was launched in six other African countries, is probably better than what they've got in the West ".
"Although we are a third world country, I'm sure we made it up to Western countries while they [Western] continues to collect information in print on the stands, we get it instantly.
Kenyan Dina is just one example of hundreds of innovative projects based on mobile phone, which help improve healthcare in Africa today's mobile phones are as much a State-of-the-art technology, they are used as walking, talking to field hospitals.
Manufacturers of mobile phones, networks and software developers have joined forces with the United Nations to deploy mobile Center drive multi-million pound against HIV/AIDS, malaria and mortality.
Kathy Calvin, Executive Director of the United Nations Foundation, said, mobile phones are able to provide as much impact on global health as Sir Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin, 1928.
"Mobile technology is the answer to a huge, huge problem," she says."The impact [of mobile phones in Africa] so far has been great and the long term will become even more.
Calvin said UN rebuilds its approach to international development to pay increasing attention to mobile. "For decades of delivering health care in rural areas was inefficient and slow.If the drugs or condoms or no outbreak of disease, the only way to communicate the problem is to write it down, probably a bit messy, paper, "she says."She was screaming modern solutions. "
The solution is a mobile phone as their price drops below $ 10, mobile phones are becoming more popular in Africa and an increase in the number of phones five times over the past five years."Instead of building clinics and roads in remote towns and villages, so people can get access to health care, we offer health care directly to people through mobile phones.You get a lot more health for your money, "says Calvin.
The United Nations has teamed up with Vodafone Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, intends to use the enormous technological potential of the latest generation of smartphones such as the iPhone and Google Android powered device control and provision of medical care on the ground without doctors or nurses.
While philanthropic approach to solving the problems of Africa has produced good results, Calvin calls for public-private Alliance to drive today's pilots in tomorrow's standard practices. "Philanthropy cannot be the only answer here.Manufacturers and mobile networks are working together to develop products and solutions that will require significant investment dollars, "she said.
Telefónica, the Spanish telecom giant, which owns the O2 Mobile phone network, identified the following areas as health, with hundreds of millions of euros of investment and the creation of a special electronic units.
"We're going to invest very strongly in this sector," said Alvaro Fernández de Araoz, Telefonica, Director of corporate e-health. "We made a bet on health, and we've poured tens of millions of euros in it ".
United States, giant Qualcomm Technology has developed technologies that can be used to measure the patient's heart rate, breathing rate, position, temperature, and other vital signs provide full health patient test thousands of miles from the doctor. "This is useful for a worry in the West, but a revolutionary technology for developing countries, "said Clint McClellan, Qualcomm strategic Director."People who have never seen a doctor can be remotely find disturbing signs of disease which would previously have gone unnoticed.
"It's not science fiction almost limitless opportunities more ... almost anything you have seen in Star wars or James Bond would probably actually do."
Using a mobile phone for the diagnosis of disease
Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) has developed a cheap "Clip-On" gadget for the diagnosis of eye conditions games simulation games on your phone screen type, with rotating through a package of different lenses are also applications to turn iPhone into stethoscope. Professor at the University of United States develops technologies to transform mobile field hospital by converting numbers into microscopes for blood-borne diseases such as malaria. Cellophone Aydogan Ozcan, developed Prof., University of California, can be transformed to Africa because it replaces expensive lens computer code samples of blood or urine samples can be loaded into the device as memory cards and reviewed through a built-in camera. Qualcomm developed the technology for diabetics control blood glucose level without a visit to a clinic or hospital; instead, the patient puts two tiny metal strips to determine the level of sugar in the blood under the skin, before filing information device which automatically sends information to the doctor and alerts as patients and hospital any disturbing changes.
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