Using NFC-enabled mobile phones for public health in developing countries
One of the largest IT challenges in the health and medical fields is the ability to track large numbers of patients and materials. As mobile phone availability becomes ubiquitous around the world, the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) with mobile phones is emerging as a promising solution to thi...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | en_US |
| Published: |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2010
|
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59986 |
| _version_ | 1826197563766734848 |
|---|---|
| author | Fletcher, Richard Ribon Sarmenta, Luis Francisco Verma, Namrata Law, Denise Marcus, Adam Davidzon, Guido Khan, Aamir |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Fletcher, Richard Ribon Sarmenta, Luis Francisco Verma, Namrata Law, Denise Marcus, Adam Davidzon, Guido Khan, Aamir |
| author_sort | Fletcher, Richard Ribon |
| collection | MIT |
| description | One of the largest IT challenges in the health and medical fields is the ability to track large numbers of patients and materials. As mobile phone availability becomes ubiquitous around the world, the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) with mobile phones is emerging as a promising solution to this challenge. The decreasing price and increasing availability of mobile phones and NFC allows us to to apply these technologies to developing countries in order to overcome patient identification and disease surveillance limitations, and permit improvements in data quality, patient referral, and emergency response. In this paper, we present a system using NFC-enabled mobile phones for facilitating the tracking and care of patients in a low-resource environment. While our system design has been inspired by the needs of an ongoing project in Karachi, Pakistan, we believe that it is easily generalizable and applicable for similar health and medical projects in other places where mobile service is available. |
| first_indexed | 2024-09-23T10:49:34Z |
| format | Article |
| id | mit-1721.1/59986 |
| institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| language | en_US |
| last_indexed | 2024-09-23T10:49:34Z |
| publishDate | 2010 |
| publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | mit-1721.1/599862022-09-30T23:17:02Z Using NFC-enabled mobile phones for public health in developing countries Fletcher, Richard Ribon Sarmenta, Luis Francisco Verma, Namrata Law, Denise Marcus, Adam Davidzon, Guido Khan, Aamir Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Fletcher, Richard Ribon Fletcher, Richard Ribon Sarmenta, Luis Francisco Verma, Namrata Law, Denise Marcus, Adam One of the largest IT challenges in the health and medical fields is the ability to track large numbers of patients and materials. As mobile phone availability becomes ubiquitous around the world, the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) with mobile phones is emerging as a promising solution to this challenge. The decreasing price and increasing availability of mobile phones and NFC allows us to to apply these technologies to developing countries in order to overcome patient identification and disease surveillance limitations, and permit improvements in data quality, patient referral, and emergency response. In this paper, we present a system using NFC-enabled mobile phones for facilitating the tracking and care of patients in a low-resource environment. While our system design has been inspired by the needs of an ongoing project in Karachi, Pakistan, we believe that it is easily generalizable and applicable for similar health and medical projects in other places where mobile service is available. National Library of Medicine (U.S.) (training grant 2T15LM007092-16) United States. Dept. of Defense (National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships) 2010-11-12T21:13:38Z 2010-11-12T21:13:38Z 2009-08 2009-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-0-7695-3577-7 INSPEC Accession Number: 10805064 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59986 Marcus, A. et al. “Using NFC-Enabled Mobile Phones for Public Health in Developing Countries.” Near Field Communication, 2009. NFC '09. First International Workshop on. 2009. 30-35. © 2009 IEEE. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NFC.2009.25 First International Workshop on Near Field Communication, 2009. NFC '09 Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE |
| spellingShingle | Fletcher, Richard Ribon Sarmenta, Luis Francisco Verma, Namrata Law, Denise Marcus, Adam Davidzon, Guido Khan, Aamir Using NFC-enabled mobile phones for public health in developing countries |
| title | Using NFC-enabled mobile phones for public health in developing countries |
| title_full | Using NFC-enabled mobile phones for public health in developing countries |
| title_fullStr | Using NFC-enabled mobile phones for public health in developing countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using NFC-enabled mobile phones for public health in developing countries |
| title_short | Using NFC-enabled mobile phones for public health in developing countries |
| title_sort | using nfc enabled mobile phones for public health in developing countries |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59986 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT fletcherrichardribon usingnfcenabledmobilephonesforpublichealthindevelopingcountries AT sarmentaluisfrancisco usingnfcenabledmobilephonesforpublichealthindevelopingcountries AT vermanamrata usingnfcenabledmobilephonesforpublichealthindevelopingcountries AT lawdenise usingnfcenabledmobilephonesforpublichealthindevelopingcountries AT marcusadam usingnfcenabledmobilephonesforpublichealthindevelopingcountries AT davidzonguido usingnfcenabledmobilephonesforpublichealthindevelopingcountries AT khanaamir usingnfcenabledmobilephonesforpublichealthindevelopingcountries |