Hey all, I'm going to be defending this Thursday at 9am in CSE 303. The talk will focus on some of the results from an ongoing deployment of ODK Clinic. If the abstract below looks interesting, please come. Yaw ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Yaw Anokwa Final Examination "Improving Clinical Decision Support in Low-Income Regions" Thursday, March 8, 2012 9:00 a.m. Allen Center, CSE 303 Advisors: Gaetano Borriello and Tapan Parikh (UC-Berkeley) ABSTRACT-- The combination of lightly-trained doctors, under-resourced hospitals, and complex treatment protocols can sometimes result in sub-standard care for HIV patients in low-income regions. While previous work has shown that printed patient summaries with reminders improve the quality of care, reliable access to such decision support is limited. Moreover, even when summaries are available, there are no efficient mechanisms for doctors to correct serious errors in patient data. Supervisors of these systems also face challenges like depending on unreliable manual processes to monitor usage across geographically dispersed clinics. In this talk, I will describe ODK Clinic, a mobile phone application that makes patient summaries with reminders more available despite unreliable connectivity, enables doctors to correct mistakes in a patient's record at the point of care, and empowers supervisors with detailed usage data. Informed by the results of a 90 day deployment with over 10,000 patient encounters, I present evidence of how ODK Clinic has improved clinical decision support at one of the largest HIV treatment programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/grad/exams.html