Teaching PDA Basics

Here, an instructor is demonstrating how to use a PDA. Handheld computers are very powerful, but handheld technology is easily adoptable, even by novice users, and it makes tedious record-keeping and data collection easier for health workers. Esther Nambala, a clinical officer in Uganda, tells us, “I use the PDA for many things….One of the major things is we fill in weekly and monthly surveillance forms….It has really simplified work.”

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