I recently had the opportunity to provide project oversight and technical architecture and selection for a joint venture between Messiah College and World Vision on a survey phone application that utilized low-cost devices, the JavaROSA framework, xforms, PHP, MySQL, and SMS to collect and transmit patient care information from remote portions of the world to a central survey database. Once there, the system provides real-time reporting and alerting to both World Vision as well as the field workers using the phones regarding the health issues and trends of the children they serve. This first phase of the project was executed by CS students and overseen by Prof. Brian Nejmeh. We have hopes to continue to the project next Spring in preparation for a field test in Zambia in the summer of 2010.

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