Soyapi Mumba: Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs
Soyapi Mumba: Tehnologie medicală proiectată pe măsura nevoilor Africii
TED Fellow Soyapi Mumba creates technology solutions for low-resource environments. Full bio
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software engineer out there,
companies in Silicon Valley,
din Sillicon Valley,
follow their teams in Europe.
își urmăresc echipele lor.
îndelungi şi frecvente,
visiting understaffed hospitals.
cu personal insuficient.
to manage regular HIV treatment records
arhivelor de tratament pentru HIV
developed elsewhere has not worked,
străine nu e o soluție.
lui Baobab Health,
health care challenges in Malawi.
şi îngrijire din Malawi.
health record system
de informații
while seeing patients.
când examinează pacienți.
not only had to design the software,
trebuia nu numai să proiectăm programul,
the infrastructure as well.
şi infrastructura.
fiecare pacient,
within the software
în program
şi funcționarii
some of the workload.
diferitelor sarcini.
to handle estimated birthdates
să gestioneze datele estimative de naştere
patients living in slums
care trăiesc în cartierele sărace
their physical addresses.
pentru aproximarea adreselor lor.
to uniquely identify patients,
care să identifice fiecare pacient,
de identitate individuale
informațiile între clinici.
ca un cod de bare
on personal health booklets
pe dosarele personale
folosind un dispozitiv de citire
informațiile pacientului.
datele personale
with little children on their backs,
mai ales mame cu copii mici în spate,
waiting to be assisted.
ca să fie examinați.
by searching with their names.
prin nume.
and spell names varies tremendously.
numele variază foarte mult.
versions of their names.
ale numelor lor.
by how similar they sound,
cuvintelor după asemănările în pronunție,
existing records.
şi să potrivim informațiile existente.
developed for personal computers,
făceau programe pentru computere,
is not reliable enough
nu este destul de sigur pentru computere.
point-of-sale terminals
terminalelor cu ecran tactil
internet appliances called i-Openers
aparate internet numite i-Openers
during the dot-com era
to run from rechargeable batteries.
a funcționa cu baterii reîncărcabile.
a reliable network to transmit data,
sigură ca să transmitem informații,
use the system
folosind sistemul
build an information system
un sistem informațional
despre HIV
din Malawi.
over 2,000 HIV patients, each clinic.
de pacienți cu HIV în fiecare clinică.
who used to spend days
care petrecea zile
rapoartelor trimestriale,
within minutes,
from all over the world
din întreaga lume
to learn how we did it.
cum am făcut acest lucru.
across the globe,
din întreaga lume,
in sub-Saharan Africa,
din Africa sub-sahariană,
including the infrastructure,
inclusiv infrastructură,
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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