innovative and pragmatic ehealth solutions at work: mekong region
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Innovative and Pragmatic eHealth Solutions at Work:
Mekong Region
Dr. Chun Cheng Southeast Asia Senior Regional
Project Manager, InSTEDD
May 20, 2011
InSTEDD’s mission is to improve
global health, safety and sustainable development through:
Building Capacity ���
within communities to foster a local culture
of innovation
Creating Collaboration Technologies ���
for social good
Collaborating with End Users ���
through a bottom up design and
development process
Ensuring Usefulness and Impact ���
through research and evaluation
Who: Created from Larry Brilliant’s
TED Prize and funded by Google.org,
Rockefeller Foundation and others���
What: A network of international
public health experts, scientists, and
software engineers focused on improving health, safety and sustainable
development���
When: Founded in 2006 ���
Where: Based in Silicon Valley, CA,
USA but working in Asia, Africa, the
Americas and Europe���
Why: Long term positive
impact requires communities to continually develop their
own solutions ���
How: We design and use
open source technology tools to help partners enhance
collaboration, share
knowledge and improve information flow so partners
can better deliver critical services in their communities.
Social Responsibility: ���We believe we have a responsibility to use all our skills, knowledge and experience to make a positive impact on global health and safety.
Collaboration: ���We shape our programs and technologies to support and enhance local and global collaboration aimed at achieving meaningful social impact.
Agility: ���We work in incremental and adaptive steps, side by side with our stakeholders and beneficiaries, to jointly design programs and technologies that have measurable impact.
Build Local Capacity
Develop Appropriate Tech
Serve the Real Need
OUR APPROACH: ���
Understand the Context
iLabs Community | Technology | Sustainability
InSTEDD iLabs act as enabling environments for technology
transfer and collaboration between software developers,
governments, NGOs, universities, private sector companies,
local communities and experts from a variety of disciplines.
Southeast Asia
Welcome to the iLab Southeast Asia: Early Detection & Response from Grassroots Level
Health Center: First Disease Case Detected
Disease Reporting: The diseases can spread faster than the report information
Disease Reporting: The diseases can spread faster than the report information
Early Detection & Response: is crucial in outbreak situations of diseases like H5N1, H1N1, Cholera
Paper Based Reporting takes days in some places, weeks in others
Phone Call Reporting is too costly for workers at the grassroots level
The Need: Low cost, real time group communication
Understanding the field requirements and local resources is what InSTEDD’s designs are built on
Group SMS Reporting is low cost and works in Khmer
Group SMS Reporting: low cost and works in local language
Group SMS Reporting is low cost and works in Khmer
Local Leadership & Capacity Building ongoing support by the local team
Group SMS Reporting is low cost and works in Khmer
With one common goal: to improve health, safety and development of the people
Technologies Community | Technology | Sustainability
Example Tools: For social good focused on health, safety & development
Community | Technology | Sustainability
GeoChat is a collaboration tool that allows anyone to chat, report, and
get alerts on their cell phone.
GeoChat: ���KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS
! Realtime Chats
! Reports of structured and
unstructured data
! Alerts on the go
! Works on any phone with low signal
! See your team on a map
! Message can be sent/received over
email, SMS, twitter, GTalk and more
! Works even without internet
! Cheap, fast and easy!
GeoChat: ���WHO IS USING IT?
Ministry of Health, Cambodia: The Cambodian Ministry of Health uses GeoChat to simplify report diseases, send staff alerts and rapidly escalate response to potential outbreaks.
Community Health Workers, Mukdahan, Thailand: Mukdahan uses GeoChat in the whole province to connect over 600 community health workers with each other and their managers to accelerate outbreak response and spread useful information to villages.
Department of Mental Health and Hygiene, New York: The Department of Mental Health and Hygiene in New York built their own application on GeoChat in a project with students to track alcohol advertisements near schools.
Inveneo Real Time Ground Support, Haiti: Inveneo used GeoChat during their earthquake relief efforts in Haiti to coordinate field teams setting up wireless services and provide remote support from the USA.
The Repor8ng Wheel
The Reporting Wheel is a non-electronic device that simplifies data reporting for
the most remote workers, including those with literacy challenges.
The Wheel Video
Reporting Wheel: ���KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS
• Simple and accurate data reporting for
community workers
• Simplifies data reporting for those with
literacy challenges
• Code based reporting work with SMS
or IVR (Interactive Voice Respond)
• Cheap, fast and easy!
Resource Mapping
Resource Mapping helps people track their work, resources and results geographically in a collaborative environment accessible from
anywhere.
Resource Mapping: ���KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS
• Visualize your inventory/
resource of each site on the map
• Real time update information
from the field via SMS
• Query your inventory/resource
via SMS
• Public or Private group view of
available resources on map.
• Help to design and build what
you need
Resource Mapping: ���WHO IS USING IT?
! Children immunization
program in China – Myanmar
border
• Tracking malaria medicine stock
from Health Facility in Cambodia
• Mapping malaria patient test
information and tracking RDT and
ART stock from rural village in
Laos
Verboice is a stack of applications, services, libraries and APIs that give
users and developers different alternatives to build powerful Interactive
Voice Response solutions.
Verboice: ���KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS
• Stack of applications, services,
libraries & APIs
• Users and developers have
alternatives to build powerful
Interactive Voice Response
solutions
• Works for low to no literacy
levels
• Customizable
! Cheap, fast and easy!
At InSTEDD, we envision a world where communities everywhere design and use technology to continuously
improve their health, safety and development.
“What we do at InSTEDD is look at the context and the real mo8va8ons of people and try to give them tools that they can shape.”
Eduardo Jezierski, Chief Technology Officer, InSTEDD
COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY
SUSTAINABILITY
Building Sustainable Solutions
Public Private
Individual
This Starts With You!
For more information, please go to:
www.instedd.org
Dr. Chun Cheng Southeast Asia Senior Regional
Project Manager, InSTEDD
May 20, 2011