ePOCT not only guides health workers through the consultation but also integrates point-of-care laboratory tests.
New technologies are progressively transforming health care. Swiss TPH developed two generations of digital point of care systems that support clinical personnel in the diagnosis and care of sick children. Swiss TPH will actively participate at this year's Geneva Health Forum on "Precision Global Health in the Digital Age" from 10-12 April 2018. When worried parents brought their febrile children to a health facility in Tanzania ten years ago, the diagnosis they received was very often the same: malaria. "This wrong assumption meant that many children were sent home with antimalarial medicines without being properly diagnosed," said Valérie D'Acremont, medical doctor and fever management specialist at Swiss TPH. The introduction of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in 2008 drastically reduced incorrect prescriptions of antimalarials. However, it also resulted in what was soon to be called the "negative syndrome": the 90% of malaria-negative children that presented with a fever.
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