This Thursday at Change, Brian DeRenzi will be discussing his work using mobile phone as job aids for healthcare workers in Tanzania. "Mobile phones and devices are rapidly becoming Ubiquitous in low-resource regions of the world. I will be talking about two different projects I have been involved with in Tanzania that use mobile phones as job aids for people working in health related fields. The first, e-IMCI is a project for health workers in facility to assist with the IMCI protocol. The application guides health workers through a decision tree for the treatment of common ailments of childhood health. A small initial study in 2007 found that users were more likely to follow the protocol when using the e-IMCI software. The second project, CommCare, is an application that runs on mobile phones to help support community health workers (CHWs). The goal of the project is to provide a tool that CHWs can use to help manage their household and data collection needs. The phone also provides a way to complete the feedback loop by sending information back to CHWs instead of making it a one way street. I will be discussing some of the open-ended challenges with these projects as well as presenting preliminary results. While I will have slides prepared, this will be an informal talk to introduce two projects we are doing in the mobile health space, with the hopes of spurring more discussion." What: Brian DeRenzi on eIMCI and CommCare When: Thursday, January 14 at Noon Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 203