Re:HBS Student Creates Smartphone App To Detect Malaria
by yaix on Friday July 08, 2011 @04:23PM
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Its basically a microscope in a smartphone.
However, I see a few practical problems when these high end phone get distributed in Africa by some aid organization. Because an expensive high end phone is also a good gift. I hope they will maintain statistics of how many of these high end phones actually reach the medical centers. And how many of them remain in the med center after a year. Sometimes its better to just send a microscope that can not be used for anything else but blood samples.
However, I see a few practical problems when these high end phone get distributed in Africa by some aid organization. Because an expensive high end phone is also a good gift. I hope they will maintain statistics of how many of these high end phones actually reach the medical centers. And how many of them remain in the med center after a year. Sometimes its better to just send a microscope that can not be used for anything else but blood samples.