Haiti Shows The Power of Mobile UC
Written by Peter Brockmann Tuesday, 09 February 2010 17:00
The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 demonstrated a great tragedy and a great opportunity to redo the country's ramshackle infrastructure, and mobile UC was there.
In this video post, a doctor uses a smartphone to capture basic patient details including photos. The data is loaded into the cloud where other healthcare professionals can do searches or add to the patient's record, seeing whatever treatments had been implemented in the past and so on. Searches allow some patients to search for other family members. This service is a huge boost to healthcare in Haiti since the infrastructure of the past was mostly paper-based and not shared from one provider to another.
Another mobile UC company, Business Mobility Systems, offered their solution together with Ingate, on Nokia E-series so that physicians could use their mobile phones as VoIP endpoints, with instant messaging service as an enterprise service. In the initial days after the earthquake, GSM services were not available, however, satellite data and ultimately Internet services were quickly enabled.