HealthLine: Speech-based access to health information by low-literate users

Author

Sherwani, J. ; Ali, N. ; Mirza, S. ; Fatma, A. ; Memon, Y. ; Karim, M. ; Tongia, R. ; Rosenfeld, R.

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Carnegie, PA

fYear

2007

fDate

15-16 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

Health information access by low-literate community health workers is a pressing need of community health programs across the developing world. We present results from a needs assessment we conducted to understand the health information access practices and needs of various types of health workers in Pakistan. We also present a prototype for speech-based health information access, as well as discuss our experiences from a pilot study involving its use by community health workers in a rural health center.

Keywords

health care; information retrieval; medical information systems; speech processing; HealthLine; community health programs; health information access; rural health center; speech-based access; Computer science; Costs; Electronic mail; Government; Medical services; Natural languages; Pediatrics; Pressing; Prototypes; Telephony; Pakistan; community health; developing regions; dialog systems; health information; speech recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2007. ICTD 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1990-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1991-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTD.2007.4937399

Filename

4937399