Information and Communication Technologies for Development

Given the application has an easy and friendly interface, we do not expect any challenges for physicians interacting with it. We rather believe that most of the problems could be technical and come from the cell phone apparatus. Although is a robust cell phone, the Nokia 6131 NFC is going to be used to read the RFID tags, select the pneumonia status of patients and transmit the information over GPRS. The whole process entailed by our project is based on it. Without appropriate care and maintenance of the apparatus, the study results could be drastically affected. Hence, it is very important to keep the phones and its batteries in optimal conditions. At this point we do not know if exists technical support for this specific phone in the area where the study is conducted or if there will be in the future.