{"id":23,"date":"2004-11-05T01:36:38","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T01:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=23"},"modified":"2004-11-05T01:36:38","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T01:36:38","slug":"using-sms-to-manage-and-contain-the-spread-of-infectious-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Using SMS to manage and contain the spread of infectious diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read a very interesing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/medtech\/0,1286,65585,00.html\">article on Wired<\/a> about a company called Cell-life which is developing SMS and Internet based monitoring software to enable a small team of doctors to effectively monitor the side-effects of Anti Retroviral <i>(ARV)<\/i>drugs used in the treatment of AIDS. In this case, many side-effects such as lactic-acidosis are life-threatening unless treatment is received quickly. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell-life.org\/\">cell-life system<\/a> enables fast diagnosis of these issues using SMS text messaging to communicate with doctors and interface with the system databases. It&#8217;s a wonderful example of technology having a beneficial effect on the lives of thousands of people and <i>(as someone pointed out)<\/i> a balance to my earlier <i>techno-dystopia<\/i> remarks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read a very interesing article on Wired about a company called Cell-life which is developing SMS and Internet based monitoring software to enable a small team of doctors to effectively monitor the side-effects of Anti Retroviral (ARV)drugs used in the treatment of AIDS. In this case, many side-effects such as lactic-acidosis are life-threatening unless treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1701],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}