Title: MobiScopy : combining microscopy with mobile networks

Place: [Amsterdam etc.]

Publisher: Royal tropical institute (KIT) [etc.

Year: 2010]

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Subject: mHealth in Low-Resource Settings

Keywords: information technology, mobile telecommunication services, scientific apparatus and instruments, rural health, health personnel, developing countries

Abstract: A physical device that fits a mobile phone camera to a microscope allows accurate focusing and positioning for capturing high-resolution images. Combined with an IT platform it permits rural health workers to share, discuss and validate images of pathogens with their peers and with remote experts.

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzUFVY3i_GI

Document type: Other