Soyapi Mumba: Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs
Сояпи Мумба: Медицинские технологии, необходимые Африке
TED Fellow Soyapi Mumba creates technology solutions for low-resource environments. Full bio
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software engineer out there,
программного обеспечения,
companies in Silicon Valley,
за компаниями Силиконовой долины,
follow their teams in Europe.
болеют за свои команды в Европе.
отключения электроэнергии,
visiting understaffed hospitals.
где не хватает персонала.
to manage regular HIV treatment records
постоянную картотеку лечения ВИЧ
developed elsewhere has not worked,
оказались неэффективны.
к Baobab Health,
местные разработки
health care challenges in Malawi.
здравоохранения в Малави.
health record system
и учёта пациентов,
while seeing patients.
при приёме пациентов.
not only had to design the software,
не только создать программное обеспечение,
the infrastructure as well.
создать инфраструктуру.
каждого пациента,
within the software
мы ввели клинические рекомендации
some of the workload.
с рабочей нагрузкой.
to handle estimated birthdates
приблизительных дат рождения
patients living in slums
живущими в трущобах
their physical addresses.
для установления физических адресов.
to uniquely identify patients,
удостоверяющих личность пациента,
идентификационные данные пациента
в разных клиниках.
on personal health booklets
with little children on their backs,
в частности мамы с маленькими детьми,
waiting to be assisted.
by searching with their names.
простого поиска по именам.
and spell names varies tremendously.
произношения и написания имён.
versions of their names.
by how similar they sound,
по сходному звучанию —
existing records.
исопоставить существующие записи.
developed for personal computers,
для персональных компьютеров,
is not reliable enough
недостаточно надёжна
point-of-sale terminals
с сенсорным экраном,
internet appliances called i-Openers
during the dot-com era
to run from rechargeable batteries.
от заряжаемых батарей.
надёжную сеть для передачи данных,
a reliable network to transmit data,
мы видели, как врачи используют систему
информационную систему,
use the system
build an information system
больницах Малавии.
более 2 000 пациентов с ВИЧ.
которые раньше проводили дни
over 2,000 HIV patients, each clinic.
ежеквартальных отчётов,
who used to spend days
за несколько минут,
со всего мира
within minutes,
как мы это сделали.
from all over the world
to learn how we did it.
технологий во всём мире,
across the globe,
в Африке к югу от Сахары,
in sub-Saharan Africa,
включая инфраструктуру.
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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