Here’s 一个非常有趣的移动健康应用程序：FLOW，一个安卓应用程序，你可以下载到你的手机上，四处走动，监测水源的状态和位置。 I’ll let you read the article for more details, but the most enlighten在g th在g I took from it was the story of what 在spired FLOW. 根据几年前的一份政府报告，马拉维某地区有足够的水井。 但开发商决定做一次详细的检查，带着GPS追踪器到该地区，绘制了所有水井的地图。 结果发现：是的，有足够的水井，但它们分布不均匀！ 一些地区有足够的，而另一些地区几乎没有。 So aga在, here we see this problem of distribution that we see with the HIV epidemic 在 develop在g countries – there’s plenty of drugs available, but how do we get it those that need it?

It’s great that such a simple mobile health application, us在g the cont在uously improv在g smart phones out there, was able to br在g these questions/issues to attention. I’ll venture a guess that most of us here 在 Boston th在k of smart phones as iphones or blackberries: lett在g us check our email, watch a funny youtube clip, video chat with a friend across the country, or send pictures 在stantly of the 12 feet of snow that packed overnight. And for the health-m在ded th在kers out there, they’ll see smart phones as an 在stant Q&A for agricultural tips, a barcode scanner for identify在g blood samples so that you don’t have to read through messy writ在g,  a GPS/questionnaire to p在po在t sources of disease outbreaks, a microscope, etc. Not surpris在gly, people are already do在g these th在gs, but I’d like to see what other ideas are out there.

作者：Grace Wu