The WHCC Affordable Health Innovations Program allows global organizations an opportunity to showcase initiatives that provide affordable, sustainable and scalable solutions to improving health care. This site, developed in collaboration with the World Health Care Congress, is designed as a year-round community where organizations can present their programs and research.

The WHCC Affordable Health Innovations Global Initiative recently spoke with Joel Selanikio, MD, the Washington director of DataDyne, creator of EpiSurveyor, a free mobile-phone-and-web-based data collection system that a user can set up in less than an hour. The simplicity has made EpiSurveyor the most widely-used mHealth software in the world, with thousands of users in hundreds of organizations including 15 sub-Saharan African countries in conjunction with the World Health Organization’s African Regional Office.
WHCC: Why is there a need for EpiSurveyor?

Dr. Selanikio: In every enterprise, there is a need for good data to establish priorities, determine baselines, and evaluate progress. International development and global health are no exceptions to this rule, and much of our essential data is obtained from community-based, or facility-based surveys on paper. EpiSurveyor takes this paper-based system and easily and inexpensively replaces it with one based on mobile phones.
The Microfinance and Health Protection (MAHP) initiative aims to develop and test integrated microfinance and health protection products and services that positively impact clients’ lives while being practical and sustainable for microfinance institutions.
Using open source tools for mobile data collection to avoid the closed silo-based solutions that have hampered the field.
An easy to use health and nutrition guide, personalized to an individual's unique health conditions, risks diet, allergies preferences and goals.
This study examines the impact of diabetes management within a large primary care network using remote, secure-transfer of clinical data via the Internet.
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