Neal Lesh. mHealth (also written as m-health or sometimes mobile health) is a recent term for...

Neal Lesh

mHealth (also written as m-health or sometimes mobile health) is a recent term for medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, PDAs, and other wireless devices.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mhealth)

eHealth

mHealth

Electronic Medical RecordsData

CollectionLab

Pharm

Outreach Tele-medicine Data gathering Surveillance Clinical support ….

Data collection on mobile phones is easy, effective, and fun!

Collaboration on software for mobile phones is: hard, effective, and fun!

–Harder to skip questions

–Range checking–Eliminates branching

errors–Eliminates transcription

errors– Immediate access to

data–Better supervision

possible

Consortium of organizations working together for the last 2 years on mobile data collection and decision support: ◦ Promoting Xform as standard◦ Meeting frequently ◦ Creating easy-to-use tools

Form Authoring

Mobile Engine

Data Server

XForms

Completed XForms

Entity data

OpenROSA

Consortium Has mailing list,

mostly non-technical discussion

Promotes XForms standard

Facilitates interoperability of many components

Members working jointly on JavaROSA

JavaROSA

J2ME software Has mailing list,

mostly technical discussion

Adheres to Xforms standard

Interoperates with other OpenROSA components

Developed by members of OpenROSA community

Nov 2007: 1st meeting in Boston. Very informal. Decided to be a group. Realized we all about to make JavaROSA.

Dec 2007- 1 day meeting in Nairobi at another meeting. More excitement.

Jan 2008- many emails, phone calls, and vote to pick name/logo.

.

Jun 2008: first big and open meeting; 1 day, part of HISA in Durban. Skype chat begins…

Jun 2009: shut down OpenROSA website pending reconstruction.

Jul 2009: 3-day meeting in Dar TZ with 85+ people.

Form Authoring

Mobile Engine

Data Server

XForms

Completed XForms

CellLife, EpiSurveyor, OpenXData,, Open Data Kit

JavaROSA, OpenXData mobile, ODK-collect

Cell Life, EpiSurveyor, OpenXData, Open Data Kit

GoalsEasy data collection

tomorrow

Set up your own data collection system

Decision Support and case management

Google tech

(Not OpenROSA) SMS

SystemEpiSurveyor

openXdata, Cell Life / LimeSurvey

CommCare / D-tree & Dimagi

Open Data Kit

RapidSMS, FrontlineSMS

Data collection on mobile phones is easy, effective, and fun!

Collaboration on software for mobile phones is: hard, effective, and fun!

Join us at code.javarosa.org

or email me at

neal@equalarea.com

THANKS