Christina Nigro and Paul Poling

School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley

 
 
   
 
mClinic
mClinic is the master's project of Christina Nigro and Paul Poling. The project is a continuation of research begun in Fall 2004 into the use of voice/SMS medication reminders to improve medication compliance for tuberculosis patients in the developing world. This portion of the project focued on the development of a medication reminder system prototype, and the use of this prototype as a case study for other efforts seeking to create technologies for the developing world in the developed world. [Please note: the Patient Medical Record System and MessageWiz are designed to run on a local machine, but not across the web. These links point to online implementations of the user interfaces.]
mClinic Links
  • mClinic Paper doc pdf

    Abstract
    mClinic and the Technology Assisted DOTS Project provide a case study of health care system design geared towards developing world needs.  This system design process provides lessons on developing technology-based systems for the developing world.  The paper encompasses a history of the project, from inception to prototype, and the steps taken by the authors to develop a culturally and socially appropriate, efficient and cost effective system.  In addition to producing a functional prototype, the mClinic project, through this documentation and analysis of the process, provides a foundation for future development efforts and suggestions for overcoming some of the challenges that arise from remote development. 

  • mClinic Presentation
  • Patient Medical Record System
  • MessageWiz
 
Technology Assisted DOTS

The Technology Assisted DOTS project aimed to research the feasibility and acceptability of the user of a mobile phone-based medication reminder system to improve tuberculosis medication compliance in the developing world. The project was funded by the MOT-UNIDO Fellowship Program and conducted in Summer 2005 in the Kajaido District of Kenya. The project surveyed tuberculosis patients, health care workers, and community leaders and found that the proposed system would be met with positive results.


Technology Assisted DOTS Links