To fight malaria, HP and the non-profit Positive Innovation for the Next Generation (PING) unveil a new collaboration at the United Nations Social Innovation Summit. Through the collaboration, mobile health monitoring technology will be used to combat malaria outbreaks.
The program equips healthcare workers in Botswana with HP Palm Pre 2 smartphones. The webOS-based technology on Palm Pres will help the healthcare workers to collect data and quickly notify the Ministry of Health about a malaria outbreak. Further, they will be able to tag both data and disease surveillance information with a GPS coordinate. Mascom Wireless provides the connectivity.
This isn't the only program with which HP is involved. As part of the alliance with African social enterprise mPedigree, HP fights counterfeit malaria drugs through a mobile phone and cloud services solution.
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