Soyapi Mumba: Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs
Soyapi Mumba: Tecnología médica diseñada para satisfacer las necesidades de África
TED Fellow Soyapi Mumba creates technology solutions for low-resource environments. Full bio
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software engineer out there,
de software apasionado,
companies in Silicon Valley,
de tecnología de Silicon Valley,
follow their teams in Europe.
siguen a sus equipos en Europa.
y desconecto los auriculares,
en el África subsahariana,
prolongados y frecuentes,
visiting understaffed hospitals.
visitan hospitales con poco personal.
los hospitales
to manage regular HIV treatment records
de tratamiento del VIH
importar sistemas tecnológicos
developed elsewhere has not worked,
no funciona.
health care challenges in Malawi.
la atención médica en Malawi.
health record system
de historiales de salud
while seeing patients.
de la salud al ver a pacientes.
not only had to design the software,
no solo teníamos que diseñar el software,
the infrastructure as well.
implementar la infraestructura.
a cada paciente,
within the software
clínicas dentro del software
some of the workload.
parte de la carga de trabajo.
su fecha de nacimiento,
to handle estimated birthdates
manejar fechas de nacimiento estimadas
patients living in slums
que viven en barrios marginales,
their physical addresses.
sus direcciones físicas.
identificar de forma única a los pacientes
to uniquely identify patients,
un carné único de pacientes
los pacientes a través de las clínicas.
como códigos de barras,
de salud personales
on personal health booklets
de código de barras,
de código de barras
los historiales del paciente.
a escribir sus datos personales
durante cada visita.
se hicieron más cortas.
with little children on their backs,
madres con niños pequeños a sus espaldas,
waiting to be assisted.
esperando ser asistidas.
by searching with their names.
extraer buscando por nombre.
and spell names varies tremendously.
los nombres varía tremendamente.
versions of their names.
y vernáculas de sus nombres.
by how similar they sound,
palabras por lo similares que suenan,
existing records.
y unir los historiales existentes.
developed for personal computers,
para computadoras personales,
no es lo suficientemente confiable
is not reliable enough
point-of-sale terminals
de punto de venta con pantalla táctil
en estaciones de trabajo en clínicas.
internet appliances called i-Openers
de Internet llamados i-Openers
during the dot-com era
to run from rechargeable batteries.
funcionar con baterías recargables.
a reliable network to transmit data,
una red confiable para transmitir datos,
nuestras propias torres,
de un hospital,
use the system
de la salud usan el sistema
build an information system
un sistema de información
los historiales de VIH
hospitales públicos en Malawi.
over 2,000 HIV patients, each clinic.
cada uno a más de 2000 pacientes con VIH.
who used to spend days
que solían pasar días
informes trimestrales
within minutes,
los mismos informes en minutos.
from all over the world
de todo el mundo
to learn how we did it.
cómo lo hicimos.
across the globe,
en todo el mundo,
in sub-Saharan Africa,
en el África subsahariana,
including the infrastructure,
incluida la infraestructura,
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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