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With rising popularity of Smartphones and tablets, mobile medical application has gained enough momentum and popularity in the healthcare domain. If Botswana had it now, others would never have to wait for long. Yes, Hewlett-Packard (HP), the technology leader in supercomputers and hand-held devices is up with the battle against malaria with its technology gadget.

Now, African health workers can capture the HP technology cell phones for information about malaria outbreak, in real time, to inhibit the spread of malaria, monitor treatment program, and ensure the regions have enough malaria nets for their campaign.

The venture of HP with Positive Innovation for the Next Generation (PING) has brought hope for more effective and efficient usage of technology resources to work synchronously with varied health information management systems.

Healthcare workers of this landlocked republic in south-central Africa, with this amalgamation project will have access to HP Palm Pre 2 Cell Phone to accumulate data about malaria through the mobile application architecture, which has brought positive health reform/revolution.

The technology extends forth easy user interface, with varied applications, as healthcare workers would get to seamlessly tag vital data for transmission appended with audio, video and pictures for mass communication. Signaling an outbreak has now become easier with Palm Pre 2 Cell Phone, as with varied malaria case reports in any region, healthcare workforce and ministry of health officials could be easily notified through mobile text alerts, in real time, to effectively fight against malaria, to keep a check on its spread.

It is a good sign for new developments in health and safety with the inception of HP Palm Pre 2 Cell Phone for Botswanan, when we are not unaware about the snail-pace culture of health clinics. The system is a boon in technology, as through it within a fraction of time, the beginning of malaria outbreak could be posted to health officials for strategic action plan, and program implementation process.

Being a stable democracy, with fair economy and cell phone penetration rate of 140% Botswana has become the choice for HP for this pilot study for the evaluation of technological innovations for healthcare programs that has been a huge hit since a quarter to four months, and the program has demonstrated well for the people, out there, if sources are to be believed.

Healthcare workers are all excited with only positive feedback of this technology introduction, and the project groups are hopeful about expansion of this project to other deadly diseases as well, viz. Tuberculosis and Ebola, to name a few, until you hear more from us.

For the esteemed readers, the amalgamation project of HP along with PING of HP Palm Pre 2 Cell Phone so far is bound to Botswana for the people of it, and it would not be long for other countries to hope for such, with increasing cell phone usage.

Let us keep our fingers well crossed for new trends and traditions in healthcare through mobile applications.