Medi-SIM

Medical Tools and Applications using SIM cards (and more)

Winner
Gemalto SIMagine 2008 Innovation Award (Jury Prize)
Awarded at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 2008

Overview

Medi-SIM offers SIM-based tools that aim to improve public health, especially in developing countries and other areas where people lack access to health information systems.

This project provides an application to help health workers follow standard medical guidelines and better manage patient records. A simplified version enables patients to learn more about and keep better track of their health. Medi-SIM uses the SIM Toolkit to reach users with low-end phones. In capable phones, Gemalto's SCWS and NFC features are also used to offer multimedia capabilities, more accurate patient identification, and more secure access to patient information.

Presentation at SIMagine Finals

Project Members

Note: This project is not active anymore.

However, Luis Sarmenta and students in the NextLab course program at MIT applied ideas and experiences from this project to other (non-SIM-based) projects done in collaboration with international health workers. These include: