Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2012 Winner

Ruhanga - RealTime Remote Health Monitoring


Description

'Ruhanga' is a healthcare application leveraging the power Cloud Computing and Wireless Technologies. It is targeted towards providing simplistic and inexpensive Primary Healthcare solution with minimal infrastructure to the people living in deep rural as well as remote areas across the globe. Remote monitoring of terminally ill patients who cannot move away from their room, is also a benefit that could be leveraged through Ruhanga. Ruhanga consists of Patient report system, Physician system, Central Intelligent processing system and Live Video Streaming system which enable live interaction between the Patient and Physician from their mobile phones.

Project website

http://ec2-174-129-212-31.compute-1.amazonaws.com/ruhanga/ruhanga.html


Action lines related to this project
  • AL C7. E-health 2012
Millennium development goals related to this project
  • Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
  • Goal 5: Improve maternal health
  • Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases

Coverage

Status

Completed

Start date

01 November 2007

End date

31 March 2012


Entity name

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Entity country—type

United States of America Private Sector

Entity website

http://www.cognizant.com