1. Enyonam Dzide
Software Product Design and Development
Adzo.dzide@gmail.com
Nii Okai Quaye
Independent Software Developer
(Free and Open Source Software)
naut23@gmail.com

2. Mobile Data Collection
 Introduction
 Data Collection
 mHealth
 ChildCount plus
 Rural Medical Laboratory Services
 Data collection needs

3. Introduction – Data collection
 Data collection
 Basic activity in programs and projects for purposes of
 Planning
 Decision making
 Work
 Monitoring and evaluation
 Traditionally, manual and paper based.
 Error prone
 Costly and time consuming
 Data is usually not captured in real-time.
 Need to automate
 Web and mobile based solutions.

4. Introduction - mHealth
 It is the application of mobile technology and multimedia in the
delivery of public health services.
 Relevant in both industrialized and developing countries.
 How to acquire, transport, store, process, and secure the raw and
processed data to deliver meaningful results.
 With the rise in the availability of handsets it offers health care
access to people in rural areas.
 Especially by challenging the constraints of health professional
patient ratio
 Education and awareness
 By offering helplines
 Remote monitoring and data collection

5. mHealth Applications
 Native app
 Application sits on phone and uses phones resources (Android, IOS)
 CommCare (Java)
 SMS based
 ChildCount+
 Most common denominator delivery medium
 Allows for both low budget phones and sophisticated
 Allows for some structured and formatted input
 Web and mobile web
 This relies on data or internet
 Coupled with a server side component

6. mHealth Applications
 Voice Apps
 Mostly seen in the form of interactive voice apps
 Where voice prompts are used as input medium
 Good for highly illiterate areas
 also for anonymous services for culturally and socially
sensitive setting
 eg STD counseling
 May also be one directional broadcasts where information of
various kinds are sent en mass to individuals at the same time

7. ChildCount +
 Millennium Villages project
 Maternal and child welfare
 Field based community health workers
 SMS based data collection
 Based on RapidSMS
 Registration of Children under five and pregnant women
 Monitoring Malnutrition (MUAC)
 RDT (malaria)
 Analytics Community Health Worker CHW household visits
 Currently deployed
 Deployed in MVP Site at Bonsaaso
 Second village in the SADA enclave

8. Medical Laboratory Service
 Clinics established in remote areas serviced by one lab
 Delayed results and diagnosis because of long
distances.
 Use SMS to request results.
 Desktop Clinic with lab modules
 Childcount+ intermediary servers
 OpenMRS medical records

9. Needs Analysis
 Automated mobile based data collection
 Transmission medium
 Dynamic form creation
 Xforms
 SMS/Keyword based form
 Data integrity and quality of data
 Constraints
 Skip logic
 Cheaper and faster
 Design with analysis and reports in mind
 Web based administration and reporting