Related Projects

In this post we would like to refer to other projects who work on the same topic like Sendinel. All projects are Open Source Software and focus on developing countries.

OpenMRS is an electronic medical record system, where the patients' data is saved and processed in the hospital. They are working on a messaging module, which will allow the patient and the hospital to communicate by using mobile phones.

ResultsSMS works on secure delivery of test results to the patients via SMS.

FrontlineSMS focuses on delivering and analyzing bulk SMS.

TxtAlert sends SMS to remind patients of appointments.

So let's see what is similar and what is different in these projects.
The core idea of Sendinel (notifying and reminding patients) is very similar to TxtAlert. ResultsSMS focuses solely on delivering test results. Sendinel does not support that but only sends the notification that test results are ready to be picked up. Therefore ResultsSMS puts much more emphasis on security questions than Sendinel.

OpenMRS is supporting the complete hospital workflow from patients entering the hospital to leaving it again. Sendinel on the other hand only tackles the sending of information. FrontlineSMS is a very generic solution that is not specially tailored to the hospital use case.

In contrast to all the other projects Sendinel supports not only SMS but also VoiceCalls or Bluetooth as alternative ways of communication.

As you can see, the area of mobile communication in the health sector is something a lot of people see potential in and actually take effort to work on. We are proud to be able to contribute to this sector.

Please feel free to add more projects in the comments.