RapidSMS is a SMS-based system that uses a central web dashboard to facilitate and coordinate the activities of CHWs and monitor community health.
Primary Function: To create a system by which CHWs are able to coordinate activities and monitor the health of their communities.
Targeted Beneficiaries: Field-based health care providers, such as community health workers (CHWs).
Need Addressed: Monitoring community health.
Uniqueness: RapidSMS is an mHealth platform that allows users to communicate via SMS/text message to create health reports, monitor health issues such as malnutrition, diagnose malaria, create automated alerts, and more.
Dimensions: N/A
User Requirements: Requires mobile phone with SMS/text messaging capability.
Resources: wiki.github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms/
Approximate Cost: Free (open-source)
Geographic Coverage: Ghana
Distributor: Developed by the Earth Institute in collaboration with the UNICEF Innovation Group for the Millennium Villages Project.
Primary Contacts: None Found
Languages Spoken: English
Phone Number: None Found
Physical Address: None Found
Website: http://www.rapidsms.org/en/develop/
Other Information and Links: pypi.python.org/pypi/RapidSMS; github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms
RapidSMS is a SMS-based system that uses a central web dashboard to facilitate and coordinate the activities of CHWs and monitor community health.
