Soyapi Mumba: Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs
Soyapi Mumba: La tecnologia medica incontra le esigenze dell'Africa
TED Fellow Soyapi Mumba creates technology solutions for low-resource environments. Full bio
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software engineer out there,
che lavora con passione
tecnologiche della Silicon Valley
companies in Silicon Valley,
seguono le loro squadre in Europa.
follow their teams in Europe.
in ospedali in cui manca il personale.
visiting understaffed hospitals.
una documentazione sanitaria sistematica
to manage regular HIV treatment records
developed elsewhere has not worked,
di sistemi avanzati di tecnologia,
che impiega ingegneri del posto
i problemi di salute nel Malawi.
health care challenges in Malawi.
health record system
elettronico medicale di registrazione
while seeing patients.
mentre visitano i pazienti.
not only had to design the software,
che oltre a dover progettare il software
the infrastructure as well.
anche le infrastrutture.
linee guida cliniche nel software
within the software
some of the workload.
to handle estimated birthdates
per stimare le date di nascita
patients living in slums
pazienti che vivono in baraccopoli
their physical addresses.
approssimativamente i loro indirizzi.
to uniquely identify patients,
di identificazione univoca dei pazienti,
nel corso dei trattamenti clinici.
come codici a barre
on personal health booklets
alle cartelle cliniche
di riscrivere i loro dati personali
with little children on their backs,
di solito madri con bambini sulle spalle,
waiting to be assisted.
più brevi per le visite.
by searching with their names.
cercando il loro nome.
and spell names varies tremendously.
i nomi varia moltissimo.
versions of their names.
dei loro nomi.
by how similar they sound,
in base alla similarità del loro suono,
existing records.
archivi già esistenti.
developed for personal computers,
per personal computer,
is not reliable enough
non erano abbastanza sicuri
point-of-sale terminals
per terminali di vendita
stazioni di lavoro cliniche.
internet appliances called i-Openers
apparecchiature chiamate i-Openers,
during the dot-com era
durante l'era dot-com
che ora non esiste più.
to run from rechargeable batteries.
con batterie ricaricabili.
a reliable network to transmit data,
network affidabili per trasmettere i dati,
delle zone rurali.
abbiamo costruito delle torri,
le cliniche di Lilongwe,
come gli infermieri usano il sistema
use the system
build an information system
abbiamo costruito un sistema informativo
dei pazienti con HIV
ospedali pubblici del Malawi.
over 2,000 HIV patients, each clinic.
oltre 2.000 pazienti HIV+, ogni clinica.
who used to spend days
within minutes,
per quegli stessi report,
from all over the world
da tutto il mondo
to learn how we did it.
per capire come abbiamo fatto.
in tutto il mondo,
across the globe,
in sub-Saharan Africa,
nell'Africa Subsahariana,
incluse le infrastrutture,
including the infrastructure,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Soyapi Mumba - Technology innovatorTED Fellow Soyapi Mumba creates technology solutions for low-resource environments.
Why you should listen
As Director of Public Health Informatics at Baobab Health Trust, Soyapi Mumba oversees development of electronic health surveillance and reporting systems for public hospitals in Malawi. Previously, he led the software development of Malawi's national electronic health record system which empowers low-resourced public clinics to serve large volumes of patients while following treatment guidelines and meeting reporting requirements.
Mumba is a TED Fellow and a prize winner of "Share an Idea, Save a Life" national competition for innovations in maternal, newborn and child health. His work has been featured in the book The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa.
Mumba lives in Lilongwe, Malawi, with his wife Miriam and their twin boys. He holds a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Informatics from University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from University of Hertfordshire, England.
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