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FrontlineSMS:Medic - Towards Healthcare in a Box
Presenter: Lucky Gunasekara, Director, Clinical Programs, FrontlineSMS:Medic

Co-Founder, Lucky Gunasekara will be presenting FrontlineSMS:Medic, a free, open source software package that will provide electronic medical records to community health workers and resource poor clinics in developing countries via text messages, along with geographic information systems capabilities, and much more. One of their most exciting announcements this year is a technical partnership that, within the next 2 years, will allow CD4, Malaria, and TB testing to be done concomitantly on mobile phones at the point of care and at the technical level of a community health worker for less than a $1 a test. The system is currently being implemented in Malawi and Uganda, in partnership with local community based organizations serving upwards of 500,000 patients. In the case of the Malawi pilot, the annual operation costs were a mere $500, whereas thousands of staff hours were saved, response to critical health crises was dramatically improved, and thousands of dollars in fuel and other operational expenditures were saved, while patient capacity doubled without the need to increase staff numbers. During 2009, FrontlineSMS:Medic will be partnering with Stanford University, Partners in Health, the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, and VillageReach to implement a number of pilot studies in Malawi serving close to 1 million patients for a range of applications including PMTCT, HAART, DOTS-TB, diarrheal diseases, and malaria care. In 2010, FrontlineSMS:Medic will launch a 500,000 patient pilot study in Bangladesh in partnership with Stanford University, BRAC, and Independent University Bangladesh

Contact: lucky@medic.frontlinesms.com

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