In late December 2009, the BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making journal published a technical advance which outlined the experiences of organisations making use of Mobile Researcher “to investigate the feasibility, the ease of implementation, and the extent to which community health workers with little experience of data collection could be trained and successfully supervised to collect [...]

It’s very encouraging and gratifying to see two papers being presented at this year’s Public Health Association of South Africa conference based on experiences of client organisations making use of Mobile Researcher.

Health Systems Trust has published a report based on research conducted with Mobile Researcher where data collectors used mobile phones to capture responses during telephone interviews. This avoided the use of paper and the need for expensive infrastructure such as computers.