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[htxt.africast] Meet the simple app that will make South African emergency rooms better

Can a cheap tablet make township hospital’s more efficient? Dr Yaseen Khan of the Open Medicine Project South Africa certainly thinks so. His organisation has just finished trialling a simple new app called Mobile Triage at the Khayelitsha Hospital in the Western Cape and found that it can improve early diagnosis in the emergency room and speed up time to complete triage by up to 50%.

According to Dr Khan, waiting times in the Western Cape are currently up top eight hours long and as many as a quarter of all patients are misdiagnosed during triage. Khan says that 88% more patients actually complete the triage stage, and with more comprehensive diagnoses, than before.

The app is designed for healthcare workers in a low tech environment, where it’s hooked up to a label printer. And that’s it.

It’s a remarkable achievement, and was rewarded last week at Mobile Web Africa where it won the App Circus award.

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