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The Case of the Interdisciplinary Researcher: Using Mixed Methods to Observe ICT in Healthcare in Uganda

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Author: 
Densmore, Melissa R.
Publication Date: 
Oct 2010
Publication Type: 
Report/White paper
Abstract: 

While researchers are often depicted as either ‘social scientists’ or ‘technologists’ often their educational and ideological backgrounds are much richer than the two simple terms might imply.

This paper describes the methodology and approach of a qualitative researcher with a computer science background in investigating how information technology changes communications and information management practices within the health ecosystem constitutued by a health subsidy program in southwest Uganda.



 




  
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Claim Mobile data sheet 2565 Views

	

      
Website for the Tool: 

    

            

                    http://www.mobileactive.org/Cl...        

        





      
Organization that developed the Tool: 

    

            

                    Claim Mobile        

        





      
Main Contact: 

    

            

                    Melissa Ho        

        





      
Problem or Need: 

    

            

                    
HealthyLife is a voucher program that reimburses existing service providers for services rendered. However, service providers are geographically distant, program management is information-intensive, and errors and other sources of delay affect service provision, quality of care, and payment timeliness. Claim Mobile helps streamline this voucher program.
        

        





      
Main Contact Email : 

    

            

                    mho@ischool.berkeley.edu        

        





      
Brief Description: 

    

            

                    
ClaimMobile is a dual web-and-mobile-based platform designed to enable service providers to use mobile phones to digitally submit formerly paper-based claims to a web-based application. The web application is additionally designed to cope with Internet infrastructure limitations found in Mbarara, Uganda, and supports asynchronous synchronization between locally and globally available web servers to enable access to claims data even when Internet access may be prohibitively slow or unavailable.
        

        





      
Tool Category: 

    

            

                    App resides and runs on a mobile phone        

              

                    Is a web-based application/web service        

        





      
Key Features : 

    

            

                    
 


    

  • Self-verifying forms facilitate training
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  • GPRS-based form submission and approval
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  • In-clinic data management and analysis can be performed on phone
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Main Services: 

    

            

                    Voting, Data Collection, Surveys, and Polling        

              

                    Information Resources/Information Databases        

        





      
Tool Maturity: 

    

            

                    Under development/pre-launch        

        





      
Platforms: 

    

            

                    Java ME        

        





      
Current Version: 

    

            

                    0.1        

        





      
Program/Code Language: 

    

            

                    Java        

        





      
Number of Current End Users: 

    

            

                    None/not deployed yet        

        





      
Number of current beneficiaries: 

    

            

                    Under 100        

        





      
Languages supported: 

    

            

                    English        

        





      
Handsets/devices supported: 

    

            

                    Palm Centro, Palm Treo 680        

        





      
Is the Tool's Code Available?: 

    

            

                    Yes        

        





      
Is an API available to interface with your tool?: 

    

            

                    Yes        

        





      
Global Regions: 

    

            

                    Sub-Saharan Africa        

        





      
Countries: 

    

            

                    Uganda