“Health authorities in Tanzania are embracing smartphones, PDAs and even basic mobile phones to follow international disease-management protocols for young children in hopes of breaking a decades-long cycle of aid money doing little to improve health conditions in low-income countries.
A program called e-IMCI guides health workers through the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) treatment algorithm, helping caregivers adhere to the IMCI regime developed by the World Health Organization and UNICEF to reduce childhood mortality and promote the growth and development of children under the age of 5 in Africa and other poor regions.”
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare, 9 March 2010
