The RTBP – Collective Intelligence Driving Health for the User

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Author(s): Nuwan Waidyanatha (LIRNEasia, China)and Sabrina Dekker (LIRNEasia, Canada)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 9
Source title: Clinical Solutions and Medical Progress through User-Driven Healthcare
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Rakesh Biswas (People’s College of Medical Sciences, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1876-3.ch007

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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Abstract

The Real Time Biosurveillance Program (RTBP) Pilot, is an active collaboration between multipartners that is utilizing collective intelligence to improve rural health outcomes, in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu, India. This paper presents how the RTBP is detecting, preventing, and therefore, improving the health systems of these two nations through the use of ICT to strengthen health reporting systems. It puts forth the challenges that the RTBP pilot has faced initially, and how they have been addressed. The RTBP is also differentiated from other mHealth initiatives by acknowledging how it is not disease specific and how it engages all stakeholders, from the receipients, the health workers, and the government.

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