If there are ways to get get health information out to people over phone, and specifically via SMS – and that is certainly a high risk assessment – why can’t we do the same for K-12? Is this a West/Developing world divide issue? Or something else? I’ve got to wonder. More on this when I get the chance.
mLearning m’bout mHealth
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2 responses to “mLearning m’bout mHealth”
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I think this information will be inaccurate, because without inspection, no one doctor can diagnose.
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If you’ll note, the system that they are suggesting is based on “trained observers” or paramedics to be the eyes and hands in the field. Failing that, as long as the phone can take pictures, and there is a common language (it doesn’t have to be technical to work) many of these diagnosis can be done in the field. Granted those that need specialized equipment will have to be bumped up to a “real live” physician, but for basic health, this should do nicely.
If you watched MASH, you’ll remember an episode where the priest was guided through an operation over the radio. While that was fiction, there was recently an amputation over SMS and there are surgeons in the US who are Twittering.
So while you are right, no one doc can diagnose, there will never be a situation where there is only one doc. With keen observers, a trained physician on the other end of the message system (phone/text/smoke signal) will be able to make the most of what is presented. I don’t know anything about medicine (my brother is a surgeon), but what I do know is that not everything that is wrong with someone will show up to every doctor. So even in our current system, the information is inaccurate and needs more than one set of eyes.
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