Our own experience with our sms applications has been dismal. Unless the specific device is supplied (Android, iPhone, Java enabled phone), the health workers will only have, at the minimum, an sms capable device.
Our goal was to make the application fit the health workers' workflow -- taking advantage of their existing device (which is a natural extension of their persona that they pull out once in a while even for personal messages) rather than add another device which could add an overhead to their gadget responsibility. Security, as has been mentioned, is still an issue. As to which EMR they insert to, it's fairly easy to parse sms data to any EMR as long as the EMR has found traction already. Our current research challenge is how to consistently place the patient identifier in every sms message. Does anyone have models for this? On 3/3/09, Adrian Midgley <amidgl...@defoam.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Fouad Bajwa wrote: >>>From what I see from all the projects, no one seems to be giving >> strong options except for OSCAR and OpenMRS, most of the solutions >> seem to be talking about it but nothing actually operational. > > > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mobile-usability.html > > > > In 1999-2000 I was involved in a project where some of the sales team's > interest was in m-commerce. > > I now carry an iPhone, and it might be just about getting up to > usability for some things, as Nielsen says. > > > Given the main developed function of a mobile phone, I wonder if we > should be looking at the Sphinx work from Carnegie-Mellon university, in > speech recognition and speech command interfaces, and the converse to > it, Festival from there and Edinburgh university, for voice generation. > > > - -- > A > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkmsXgYACgkQb80am9d/Stfk2gCdG/RM37gzxaQb/BGnq3H5onke > /PgAoKFYn/aNf5lMmOYswKXDa3zmPRaz > =un8x > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Alvin B. Marcelo, MD (www.alvinmarcelo.com) Director, National Telehealth Center Director for Southeast Asia, International Open Source Network Associate Professor of Surgery (Trauma), University of the Philippines Manila GPG: 0x77B200CA Check out PANACeA: http://www.panacea-ehealth.net Join IOSN ASEAN+3 discussion: http://lists.iosnasean.net/listinfo.cgi/iosn-asean3-discuss-iosnasean.net
