mHealth Tanzania Public-Private Partnership
mHealth Tanzania Public-Private Partnership
PROGRAM
The program enables health workers to collect data about infection rates for malaria, cholera, measles, typhoid and other diseases in their area using mobile phones. The phones are connected to an Interactive Voice Response system that requires health workers to call in and answer a standard set of questions. The verbal system makes it easy for community health workers with varying levels of literacy to provide accurate data without having to read and decipher paper forms or key-in data. The Interactive Voice Response software automatically aggregates the data and sends text messages alerting officials of immediately observed diseases. The system also makes the data accessible in real time to public health officials at the district, regional and national offices via the Internet. Accurate, real time data helps health officials at the national level make decisions about how best to use their limited resources to address health needs. In addition to disease surveillance, health experts user wireless technology to send health-related text messages to health workers, patients and other community members.
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