Starting with small health data opportunities for mHealth in Africa

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dc.contributor.authorHeavin, Ciara
dc.contributor.authorO'Connor, Yvonne
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-10T09:29:26Z
dc.date.available2018-07-10T09:29:26Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.updated2018-07-10T09:23:30Z
dc.description.abstractThe need to obtain data to understand effective and available child mortality-reducing control measures in rural areas of developing countries is great. Evidence shows that this challenge can potentially be overcome with the increased availability of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to support the data/information/ knowledge needs of healthcare delivery services in low resource settings. Recognising the benefits of ICT and the need for improvements in the Nigerian health sector, this paper outlines the plans for the technical feasibility assessment of the IMPACT (usIng Mobile Phones for Assessing, Classifying and Treating sick children) smartphone application to capture, store and analyse of child health assessment data. IMPACT is a secure, scalable, user friendly mobile health (mHealth) innovation that is being developed to support ‘small data’ capabilities within the context of healthcare in the community in Enugu State, Nigeria, Africa. Notwithstanding the heightened focus on ‘big data’ in health, this research is interested in investigating the opportunities associated with doing ‘small healthcare data’ well, with the long term view of building to the big data scenario for healthcare in the community in Enugu. This paper outlines the plan for the IMPACT project considering the implications for health data, knowledge management in healthcare and the big data opportunities to support disease surveillance, healthcare delivery and resourcing and healthcare practitioner education.en
dc.description.sponsorshipIrish Research Council (grant no. New Horizons REPRO/2015/116)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationHeavin, C. and O'Connor, Y. (2016) 'Starting with small health data opportunities for mHealth in Africa', International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics, 11 (3):338-351. doi: 10.2495/DNE-V11-N3-338-351en
dc.identifier.doi10.2495/DNE-V11-N3-338-351
dc.identifier.endpage351en
dc.identifier.issn1755-7437
dc.identifier.issn1755-7445
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleInternational Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamicsen
dc.identifier.startpage338en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/6443
dc.identifier.volume11en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWIT Pressen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.witpress.com/elibrary/dne-volumes/11/3/1205
dc.rights© 2016 WIT Press, www.witpress.comen
dc.subjectDataen
dc.subjectIMPACT applicationen
dc.subjectInformation and communication technologiesen
dc.subjectKnowledge management and big dataen
dc.subjectMobile health (mHealth)en
dc.titleStarting with small health data opportunities for mHealth in Africaen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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