“When a malaria research project in Uganda was expanded into a full-fledged malaria case-tracking effort across the country in 2006, health officials saw the move as a great opportunity to save lives. After all, malaria is the number one cause of death in Uganda, and occurs throughout 95% of the country, according to one of the research project’s coordinators.
But after starting with such promise, the project quickly became mired in a series of technology shortcomings. The original database application used to keep and sort information — an ancient version of Epi Info — was an old, slow, flat-file database that was difficult to use and to search.
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Todd R. Weiss, Computerworld, 8 January 2010
