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OpenROSA

OpenROSA. Neal Lesh. mHealth. mHealth (also written as m-health or sometimes mobile health ) is a recent term for medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, PDAs, and other wireless devices.

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OpenROSA

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  1. OpenROSA Neal Lesh

  2. mHealth mHealth (also written as m-health or sometimes mobile health) is a recent term for medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, PDAs, and other wireless devices. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mhealth)

  3. eHealth Pharm mHealth Electronic Medical Records Data Collection Lab

  4. mHealth Application areas • Outreach • Tele-medicine • Data gathering • Surveillance • Clinical support • ….

  5. Main messages • Data collection on mobile phones is easy, effective, and fun! • Collaboration on software for mobile phones is: hard, effective, and fun!

  6. Data collection the hard way

  7. Phone-based Data Collection

  8. Closer look

  9. Why phones • Harder to skip questions • Range checking • Eliminates branching errors • Eliminates transcription errors • Immediate access to data • Better supervision possible

  10. OpenROSA • Consortium of organizations working together for the last 2 years on mobile data collection and decision support: • Promoting Xform as standard • Meeting frequently • Creating easy-to-use tools

  11. Basic components Form Authoring XForms Mobile Engine Completed XForms Entity data Data Server

  12. JavaROSA Two ROSAs • J2ME software • Has mailing list, mostly technical discussion • Adheres to Xforms standard • Interoperates with other OpenROSA components • Developed by members of OpenROSA community OpenROSA Consortium Has mailing list, mostly non-technical discussion Promotes XForms standard Facilitates interoperability of many components Members working jointly on JavaROSA

  13. OpenROSA History Jun 2008: first big and open meeting; 1 day, part of HISA in Durban. Skype chat begins… Jun 2009: shut down OpenROSA website pending reconstruction. Jul 2009: 3-day meeting in Dar TZ with 85+ people. Nov 2007: 1st meeting in Boston. Very informal. Decided to be a group. Realized we all about to make JavaROSA. Dec 2007- 1 day meeting in Nairobi at another meeting. More excitement. Jan 2008- many emails, phone calls, and vote to pick name/logo. .

  14. Lots of tools CellLife, EpiSurveyor, OpenXData,, Open Data Kit Form Authoring XForms Mobile Engine JavaROSA, OpenXData mobile, ODK-collect Completed XForms Cell Life, EpiSurveyor, OpenXData, Open Data Kit Data Server

  15. My Recommendations… System EpiSurveyor openXdata, Cell Life / LimeSurvey CommCare / D-tree & Dimagi Open Data Kit RapidSMS, FrontlineSMS Goals Easy data collection tomorrow Set up your own data collection system Decision Support and case management Google tech (Not OpenROSA) SMS

  16. Main messages • Data collection on mobile phones is easy, effective, and fun! • Collaboration on software for mobile phones is: hard, effective, and fun!

  17. Join us at code.javarosa.org or email me at neal@equalarea.com THANKS

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