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"The Internet and Health Care" featuring Voxiva-based project: Cell-PREVEN
Lima, Peru June 9, 2006 - Cell-PREVEN, a real-time public health surveillance project based on Voxiva technology is featured in a new book "The Internet and Health Care: Theory, Research, and Practice," edited by Monica Murero, PhD, and Ronald Rice, PhD, experts in global informatics.
Cell-PREVEN, lead by Walter H. Curioso, MD, MPH, a research professor at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), involves the use of cell phones by health care workers to collect adverse-event data from female sex workers. Aimed at lowering sexually transmitted diseases rates, the PREVEN project is being monitored in 20 cities and is the largest randomized control trial in the country.
Cell-PREVEN (www.cellpreven.org) used cell phones to enter data relating to the transmission of adverse events from metronidazole in three communities of Peru: Chincha, Huanuco, and Piura. Health workers collected information and entered the data into their cell phones using the Voxiva infrastructure. The information was stored in an online database, allowing the data to be viewed on a real-time basis by health officials. In addition, key personnel were alerted to severe adverse events, such as vomiting, through e-mail and text alerts to their cell phones.
Dr. Curioso’s chapter, "New Technologies and Public Health in Developing Countries: The Cell PREVEN Project", details his project and discusses the application of the system in other contexts, such as disease outbreaks. The chapter also looks at the contextual barriers and opportunities in developing countries for a surveillance system using cell phones and other inexpensive technologies.
"Cell-PREVEN is a great example of how inexpensive technologies can be adapted for public health purposes in developing countries," said Dr. Curioso.
The PREVEN project is a joint effort between UPCH, Imperial College in London and the University of Washington in Seattle, in collaboration with Peru’s Ministry of Health. The book is available at:
http://www.erlbaum.com/ME2/dirmod.asp
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