Will get back to posts about Quake on your mobile, ringtones, and other pressing topics shortly. This story seems well worth a mention though.

The undispatch.com site has an article up about how PDAs are having a major impact on public health issues in the developing world:

Zambia today is helping to lead a public health revolution that has the potential to improve the lives of millions of people in the developing world. By switching from paper-based to mobile-enabled digital health systems, Zambian health workers are empowered with new ‘eyes and ears’ in the field-devices that increase the speed and accuracy with which vital health information can be collected and recorded. These PDAs, sometimes more powerful than laptops of the recent past, quickly are becoming a vital public health management tool.

It also highlights the author’s free, open source EpiSurveyor software and its role in these efforts.

Check out the article HERE  

Via: Slashdot