Tech solutions for Tanzanian health care
A group of Harvard computer science students is working to improve Tanzanian health, applying programming skills this month to help educate health care professionals and get patients to their appointments on time. The students are part of a new fellowship program, Tech in the World, begun by a pair of junior computer science concentrators, Brandon Liu and Joshua Lee. The two traveled to Tanzania on Christmas Eve with some “founding fellows,” junior Salvatore Rinchiera and senior Christian Anderson, as well as junior Mateus Falci, a visual and environmental studies concentrator, who videographed the experience. Two weeks into their monthlong stay, the group had already completed two planned projects. The first was to create a better patient database for a partnering organization, the Association for Private Health Facilities, a network of more than 100 private health clinics. The second was to add functionality to software used by some of those clinics that allows...