App/Software

Of all WHO regions, the Americas have the second lowest rate of successfully treated TB cases and the largest percentage of failed treatment cases. Peru in particular has the highest percentage of previously treated TB cases with MDR-TB (multi-drug resistant tuberculosis), often caused by patients not adhering to the treatment. This innovation aims to rectify this with a cost-effective and community-centred approach, using eCompliance, a portable biometric patient identification system originally developed by the NGO OperationASHA.

Strengthening Health Systems for High-Risk Newborn Care: An Integrated Hospital-Community GIS System for Sustainable Delivery of Quality Care during Early Child Brain Development in Rural Uganda

FLOW SMS applies low-cost, ready existent mobile technology to radically improve global management of access to water for underserved communities. Empowering people to live healthy, enabling children to go to school and contributing to global wealth.

A software tool developed by this project will offer an integrated approach to optimize sanitation solutions in developing countries by modelling local soil, water quality, and environmental conditions, essential to designing effective, small-scale sanitation systems in developing countries.

We will reduce ambulance response times by developing a software system leveraging existing infrastructure that optimizes ambulance pre-positioning locations, and provides real-time travel time estimation and route optimization info to drivers.

Spatial project management based on a geographic information system (GIS) can be used in a humanitarian setting to plan optimal location of field hospitals or sanitary installations. This approach is difficult in a disaster setting, since it requires collaborative assessments, complex planning concepts and deep knowledge requirements. It also needs to be mobile, adaptive and usable, especially for complex rural and urban settings. This project is introducing an innovative way to manage 2D and 3D information, especially for spatial-focused projects, in disaster and post disaster context.

In developing countries, in absence of 911 emergency systems, medical emergency is provided by isolated providers with varying capability, resulting in inefficient and fragmented emergency care. Often patient needs to wait for ambulances and/or is taken by public transport without receiving any paramedic care to a hospital, where proper emergency facilities and products like blood may not be available, causing serious delays in treatment and loss of life.

Disability certification guidelines are a complex set of mathematical calculations, based on expert assessment of physical parameters and range of movements. This project proposes to develop a mobile application that can automate calculation, provide instant analysis, certify, link to customized benefits and continuously track the outcomes. The app brings inclusion and existing benefits to the doorstep of the end user.