Projectt: Moca

Partners: CETSE
EA (Philippines)

G Medical,
GE di l McKesson & Philips
hili Healthcare
l h (US)
( S)

Target
g Locatio
on: Philippines
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Januaryy 2009
 Need or Problem Identified
• Clinical knowledge is lacking in many parts
p of developing countries, making
diagnosis and treatment difficult

• Patients travel long distances to clinicss - waiting for diagnosis and

treatment is costly ($ and lives)

• P
Patient's
i ' medical
di l record
d is
i often
f just
j a simple
i l card
d which
hi h can be
b lost
l or be
b
incomplete - no continuity of care

• Finding patients for

follow-up is difficult

• Imaging difficult. Simple

procedures could save
many lives & $ (e.g. :
cervical cancer, melanoma,
ultrasound)

Ima
age © Rachel Hall-Clifford, Creative Commons License -
h
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
 Project Objective
e and Description

The Technology
• Collect data in field using only cellph
hone
(voice picture and medical record upload)
(voice,
• Assemble data over spotty connectio on at backend server
• Alert expert review is required
• Send SMS back to doctor/patient to inform of treatment

The Vision
• To permit transmission of medical da ata and diagnostics over low
bandwidth / spotty networks for exp pert review
• To provide a data solution for trackin
ng and contacting patients
• To
T train
t i medical
di l personnell
• To provide semi-automated decision n support (train algorithms on
databases to run on phone)
 Expected Results, Im
mpact on Community
Philippines:
• Dermatology Screening (Images)
• Prenatal screening for obstetric
complications (Ultrasound Videos)
pines
• Pilot for deployment across Philipp
and Southeast Asia
• Moca team visits in March and Jun ne
already scheduled

Global Impact
• Code will be re-used
re used by global hea
alth community.
community
• Possibility to be adopted by Partneers in Health and industrial ultrasound
consortium as standard platform
• Many partnerships with leading org ganizations already in place.
• Strong team of advisors and indusstry who are involved and ready to
work with you - MDs, programmerrs, engineers, business people
 Technology
y Guidelines
• Android platform front-end withh medical decision tree software
• OpenMRS backend server for media
m review, quality assurance
and medical records integrationn
• Packetization for low bandwidthh networks
• General data upload system - voice,
v images, videos, text, ECG ..?
• Goal is to be scalable and reusa
able for all media types in
developing world health
 How is the Proje
ect Sustainable?

• Uses open source software (An

ndroid, Linux, OpenMRS)

• Scalable technology for use by social entrepreneurs,

governments and NGOs who willw contribute back to the
codebase.
codebase

o nine months will create

• Expected wins in the next six to
sustainable
t i bl funding
f di through
th h graants
t th
then service
i supportt ffees
 Moca as an Organization
O

Moca is an open source medical diagno ostics software incubator spun out of
the Next Billion Network incubator. Moca manages g software code and
intellectual property by a number of prrogrammers and experts to meet the
needs of mobile telehealth.

Moca's goal is to provide a platform th

hat allows governments,
governments NGOs and
businesses to seamlessly deploy teleheealth and semi-automated decision
support at a low cost, without re-inven
nting the wheel in each instance.