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EpiSurveyor and its mobile phone "data" plan

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.

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