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Handhelds for Health
SATELLIFE's Experience in Africa and Asia
by SATELLIFE
This publication provides an overview of SATELLIFE's experiences using hand-held computers for both information dissemination and data collection and reporting. The document draws heavily on experience with SATELLIFE's largest project, the Uganda Health Information Network (UHIN).
This document focuses not only on the technical aspects of setting up a handheld computer project, but discusses organisational issues and promotion of local ownership. The authors look at how to include local stakeholders in project planning, and the importance of having local advocates.
Each section of this document includes "Voices of our Partners" outtakes in which field practitioners speak of their experiences with the handheld technologies and systems. Thirteen such case study examples are included, highlighting practitioners like surgeon Dr. Bwayo of Uganda who has reduced his paperwork significantly by entering data directly into a handheld device and Liaquat Ali of EngenderHealth in Bangladesh who programmes existing supervisory checklists into a handheld format.
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