It has been used to monitor national elections in the Philippines , Afghanistan and Nigeria . For example , in April 2007 it was used by the Network of Mobile Election Monitors ( NMEM ) to oversee the 2007 Nigerian general election . Volunteers with mobile phones sent back reports from election booths to a central hub in an effort to prevent vote rigging . A similar system was deployed to monitor the 2009 Afghan presidential election , where it was combined with the crisis-mapping tool Ushahidi , to plot the reports on an online map . After the 2010 Haiti earthquake , FrontlineSMS team members helped establish the 4636 Short Code through other related organizations ( Ushahidi , InSTEDD ) to allow people on the ground to report emergency information . FrontlineSMS and its sister organizations are also improving the provision of healthcare in developing countries , where bad roads , long distances , and a shortage of healthcare workers make delivering care difficult . FrontlineSMS : Medic uses the FrontlineSMS software to gather health data and assist in patient follow-up . Community health workers use FrontlineSMS : Medic to transmit information about symptoms and follow up with patients much more quickly and efficiently ( by sending a text message rather than driving long distances over bad roads ) . When FrontlineSMS : Medic was first introduced in one area of Malawi , the local hospital doubled the number of tuberculosis patients treated over six months , while saving 2,100 hours in travel and work time and $ 3,500 in costs . The tool is now being used in 11 countries , mostly in sub Saharan Africa . In June 2010 , FrontlineSMS : Medic team released a public beta of PatientView , which allows hospitals to manage patient information in rural settings where there is no Internet access . The FrontlineSMS : Medic team is also working on a monitoring system to capture symptoms across different languages and spellings and detect disease hotspots , and are working with a researcher at the University of California , Los Angeles to develop an addition that would allow remote diagnosis of malaria and some sexually transmitted diseases , including potentially HIV
2010 Haiti earthquake
2010 Haiti earthquake
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