Published on in Vol 23, No 7 (2021): July

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/26582, first published .
An Unstructured Supplementary Service Data System for Daily Tracking of Patient Samples and Diagnostic Results in a Diagnostic Network in Malawi: System Development and Field Trial

An Unstructured Supplementary Service Data System for Daily Tracking of Patient Samples and Diagnostic Results in a Diagnostic Network in Malawi: System Development and Field Trial

An Unstructured Supplementary Service Data System for Daily Tracking of Patient Samples and Diagnostic Results in a Diagnostic Network in Malawi: System Development and Field Trial

Daniel Killian   1 * , BSc, MSc ;   Emma Gibson   1 * , BSc, MSc ;   Mphatso Kachule   2 , BEd, MSc ;   Kara Palamountain   3 , BBA, MBA ;   Joseph Bitilinyu Bangoh   4 , MSc ;   Sarang Deo   5 , PhD ;   Jonas Oddur Jonasson   6 , PhD

1 Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

2 Riders 4 Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

3 Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States

4 Health Technical Services, Malawi Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

5 Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India

6 MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally

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  • Jonas Oddur Jonasson, PhD
  • MIT Sloan School of Management
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