Mobilediagnosis
MobileDiagnosis is an association aimed at sharing knowledge and providing diagnostic support to health workers worldwide, by using mobile phone technology
About You
About You
About Your Organization
Organization Name
Mobilediagnosis
Organization Website
Organization Country
Italy, PA
Country where this project is creating social impact
Bangladesh
Is your organization a
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
1‐5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
In the 2011, June, WHO published Mobile diagnosis on WHO Compendium of Innovative Technologies Address to Global Health Concerns WHO_HSS_EHT_DIM_11.02_eng .pdf pag 17
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each
Eduardo Missoni Co -Founder of Mobiediagnosis ,Educator, Medical , Global Health Coordinator Cergas Bocconi University
http://www.eduardomissoni.net/index_en.html
eduardo.missoni@unibocconi.it
Muhammad Yunus
Funder of Grameen, Nobel Price for Peace 2006
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/yunus-bio.html
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Innovation
Select the stage that best applies to your solution
Start-Up (a pilot that has just begun operating)
How long have you been in operation?
Operating for less than a year
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
The access to care, second opinion and education in the low resource setting areas, poorest and isolated communities
The far education, isolation and the laking of communication and infrastructure in developing countries
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
use of mobile for taking and transmit (where it is possible) the diagnostic images, also without internet connection
This system is a potent tool for second opinion and also for the education
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
The method is very simple: First, one simply approaches the lens of the integrated cell-phone camera to the ocular of the microscope and takes the picture. The idea is free of cost. It is obviously possible to use the same technique to take pictures from the ocular of any other bio-medical optical device. This is practicable and, where possible, to send image from microscope, dermatological, ultrasound, rx, etc., as a very simple telemedicine. Second , it is a potent tool for training because students are fascinated and can learn immediately and easily about the medicine, laboratory microscopic technologies and has the same method as taking pictures and in any context
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
No I not have peers or competitors
I believe to be the only one
In literature there are no are experiences of images taken from the microscope with a cellular phone without any device or adaptor
This Entry is about (Issues)
Social Impact
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
In 2008, while I was working as a pathologist on the Italian Island of Lampedusa I found myself in the urgent need to confirm a diagnosis of malaria from a blood sample of an African immigrant. With no other means at hand, I took a picture of the microscopic field using the camera incorporated in mobile-phone, without additional devices, and sent it via MMS for tele-diagnostic purposes to a reference center.
The Mobilediagnosis life has been possible thank to Eduardo Missoni, that understood immediately the power of my work
with Eduardo Missoni ,in 2009, we published the method and create the first link
and in 2010 we found the Mobilediagnosis Association
Mobilediagnosis was born
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
For Community
Increase of number and typology of analisis , introduction of
microscope related-analisis
Decrease of patients migration to care
Decrease expenses travel related
Increase Exact diagnosis,
diseases screening for parasite disease (malaria, soil
worms) and malnutrition decrease , will warrant a better life
quality, and decrease mortality under five
Final result, will be a better life for Community
For healthworkers
Possibility to have earlier diagnosis, and, if need, earlier and planned
hospitalition of risk patient
Shared Diagnosis, can help to evaluate real emergences.
Possibility to have training and create a network
between doctor low-skill with doctor high skill
Improve relationship between health workers and with patients
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Increase of number and typology of analisis , introduction of
micoscope related-analisis
Decrease of patient migration to care
Decrease expenses travel related and save
Increase Exact diagnosis, better diagnosis quality and biggest efficac
Parasite diseases screening, with parasite disease (malaria, soil
worms) and malnutrition decrease , will warrant a better life
quality, and decrease mortality under five
Final result, will be a better life for Community
To healthworkers
Possibility to have earlier diagnosis, and, if need, earlier and planned
hospitalition of risk patient
Shared Diagnosis, can help to evaluate real emergences.
Possibility to have training to improve her self, and create a network
between doctor low-skill with doctor high skill
Improve relationship with patients
Visible goal: decrease of absentehism linked to demotivation and isolation
(in bangladesh there are the absentheis of '84 % of doctor )
Increase of exact diagnosis
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
o contribute to universal access to appropriate health care for
people in rural districts
To improve the quality of medical diagnosis and treatment provided to
people in rural districts
To eliminate the “health divide” and give to rural communities the
same health-care opportunities of urban communities.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone
Task 1
Connect rural health-posts using m-phones with distance referent center :Development of training course
Task 2
Identification of proper site for reference center Definition of staffing (medical and non medical) and equipement of the center
Task 3
Identification of appropriate national and international partners for distance supported resolution of complex cases, and establ
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Create a solidariety network local-national -international -for a global access to second opinion,and to education
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone
Task 1
Selection of local -rural health centers and referent centers-School of local health workers
Task 2
Individuate referent centers and activate the second opinion with a "banking time" system of high skill specialists
Task 3
create rural local-national-global for Increase of exact diagnosis Better organization and plan of hospital admission
Sustainability
Tell us about your partnerships
Bocconi University Cergas -Research group for the Global health
with AISPO(an NGO)
with Patologist over borders (an NGO)
with Asean Institute of technology
Asean Institute of technology-ARCMDG Excellence center for Millennium Development Goals
with Smailing Rainbow(Foundation)
with Grameen
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
After Uganda, Bangladesh rural, and Afghanistan, I am targeting other populations and countries:
Colombia, rural areas of pacific , Bangladesh rural areas , Afghanistan....
and a international school of Mobilediagnosis, appropriate technologies and ethic medicine in Bangkok
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
The collaboration at all level
This method, affordable, easy and not related to internet
can reach easily all target in all setting(health post, center,
etc)using microscopes and other bio-medicaloptical deviceswith acces
to m-phone network with MMS availability.
health workers,medical doctor, paramedics, midwife,community caregivers, etc
Rural community students can learn easily , and their teacher can teach easily
in addition this method dont'need long training
We expcted to create a network for quik information exchange in a few months
and in a second phase, that patients and healthworkers in rural
setting, learn to manage the health care provision, improving
themselves and become more 'aware and informed
In addition no special high skill or training is required for using
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Mobilediagnosis offer training for teachers for future local teacher's training ,
course of diagnostic pathology, logic clinic and Mobilediagnosis Method, PHC
Support for second opinion from high skill national and international specialists and web platform
Economic evaluation of Mobilediagnosis-method impact on health care and on community income
Visibility and media sharing
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