How does Sana Mobile work?
Using Sana, physicians can create medical procedures and upload them to phones used by health workers and nurses. Procedures are step-by-step instructions that guide the community health worker through all the data points that need to be collected and questions that need to be asked during an appointment with a patient. Health workers can run these pre-programmed medical procedures on their phones and collect the required patient data, including pictures and video as they are prompted. The information collected can be uploaded to a web-based medical health record system for a doctor to review. The diagnosis or recommendation for follow-up is sent back to the community health worker, who then communicates this information back to the patient. Sana improves accessibility to specialist care for geographically isolated patients We spoke to Sayon Dutt, a member on the Sana Operations team, who described the ways Sana could be used. Patients living in remote areas, who experience pain or swe
