NewPneu: A Novel Cost Effective mHealth System for Diagnosing Childhood Pneumonia in Low-Resource Settings

Pneumonia is the primary factor that kills many children especially in areas with limited resource settings. The current approach to diagnosing pneumonia involves the use of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), which contains guidelines for observing high risk signs for early detection. However, due to lack of point of care monitoring devices, these observations are either inaccurate, invalid or costly. Furthermore, several …