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Moca Mobile - Scalable Mobile Imaging for Global Health Delivery

Challenges Entered: 

Between 80 and 90 percent of the world's population live within range of a cellphone tower. A centralized health record, accessible and updatable via mobile phones and web-browsers therefore permits a secure and continuous record of health care for the poorest section of society worldwide. The use of a mobile phone to add images, audio recordings and video, to a patient's medical record leverages an existing infrastructure to deliver medical technology and decision support to regions of the earth that lack a supply chain and infrastructure for training, hardware support and treatment compliance.

Our system provides an instant end-to-end infrastructure for media-centric remote diagnosis by experts that can be located anywhere in the world. Packetization, a synchronization model, and multi-modal data transport allow MoCa to operate even in poor cellular coverage areas. While the system is mobile-centric, it is designed to provide alternatives such as WiFi and tethered uploads for bandwidth constrained situations.

 Our partners include General Electric, CIDRZ, OpenMRS, The NextBillion Project, the ASEAN Center for Telehealth, Harvard Medical School and six leading medical universities in Asia.

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Project Assessment
Financial support: 
No
Sustainability Model: 
MocaMobile is being founded as an non-profit open source software foundation that can provide services for a fee. We will rely on a combination of donations, and payment for software development and integration. Each incremental improvement in software we develop for a client, or developed by a user for their own use is capture through the use of the GNU public license. This allows MocaMobile to be the centralized repository for scalable, expert reviewed code for mobile medical diagnostics.
Expertise needed: 
Technical Expertise: As an open source software organization, we need additional contributors who want to work on this project. We have many mini-projects for talented developers. We have already signed 15 software engineers, doctors and business experts to work in the development of the software, and key partners such as OpenMRS, Partners in Health, General Electric and CIDRZ to contribute to the code base and implement our system.
Marketing/Media Expertise: We need help acquiring partner organizations and letting NGOs who are interested in doing this type of work that they don&#39;t need to start from scratch. We can provide them with a scalable, flexible architecture and work with them on the integration and business model.<br /><br />Our global partners include General Electric, OpenMRS and CIDRZ.   In Asia, we&#39;ve signed up the ASEAN Centers for E-Health and Telemedicine as well as the following universities:<br />  <br />Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia)<br />Institut dela Francophonie pour Medicine Tropicale (Laos)<br />University of the Philippines Manila (Philippines)<br />University of Gadjah Mada (Indonesia)<br />Ciputra Univerity (Indonesia)<br />Hanoi Medical University (Vietnam)<br />

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