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Supporting LIFE: Mobile Health Application for Classifying, Treating and Monitoring Disease Outbreaks of Sick Children in Developing Countries

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New Horizons in Design Science: Broadening the Research Agenda (DESRIST 2015)

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This paper presents the Supporting LIFE (Low cost Intervention For disEase control) project. Supporting LIFE applies a novel combination of Android based smartphone technology, patient vital sign sensors and expert decision support systems to assist Community Health Workers in resource-poor settings in their assessment, classification and treatment of seriously ill children, more specifically children from 2 months to 5 years of age. The application digitises widely accepted WHO/UNICEF paper based guidelines known as Community Case Management. The project also facilitates for disease monitoring and surveillance via a reporting website.

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  1. Health Information Systems Research Centre, University College Cork, Corcaigh, Ireland

    Yvonne O’ Connor & Ciara Heavin

  2. Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Victoria Hardy

  3. gHealth Research Group, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Joe Gallagher

  4. Global eHealth Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK

    John O’ Donoghue

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  1. Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland

    Brian Donnellan

  2. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Markus Helfert

  3. Intel Labs Europe, Leixlip, Ireland

    Jim Kenneally

  4. Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

    Debra VanderMeer

  5. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

    Marcus Rothenberger

  6. Universität St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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O’ Connor, Y., Hardy, V., Heavin, C., Gallagher, J., O’ Donoghue, J. (2015). Supporting LIFE: Mobile Health Application for Classifying, Treating and Monitoring Disease Outbreaks of Sick Children in Developing Countries. In: Donnellan, B., Helfert, M., Kenneally, J., VanderMeer, D., Rothenberger, M., Winter, R. (eds) New Horizons in Design Science: Broadening the Research Agenda. DESRIST 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9073. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18714-3_24

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