Re:HBS Student Creates Smartphone App To Detect Malaria
by marshray on Friday July 08, 2011 @02:34PM
(#2743560)
The scenario is not "download an app and it detects malaria".
The scenario is "person trained to work with blood samples without spreading/contracting HIV deployed into field packing a small digital microscope and support software built on WP7." This person is likely already doing a variety of other community medicine and is the closest thing to a medical doctor many of their patients will ever see.
There's no argument against giving the practicioner a helpful tool, only that it may be automating an insignificant part of the overall problem (looking at the image).
The scenario is "person trained to work with blood samples without spreading/contracting HIV deployed into field packing a small digital microscope and support software built on WP7." This person is likely already doing a variety of other community medicine and is the closest thing to a medical doctor many of their patients will ever see.
There's no argument against giving the practicioner a helpful tool, only that it may be automating an insignificant part of the overall problem (looking at the image).