Smart mobile technology boosts healthcare, tourism in 2017

SMART Communications Inc., developed mobile solutions in 2017 to further improve the delivery of healthcare services, as well as boost local tourism.

Smart unveiled early this year the latest version of the Operation Smile app, which was developed as a Java-based solution in 2012. The app was launched as part of Opera anniversary, with the campaign

In 2017, Smart also supported OSP’s medical missions in Batangas, Bacolod, Dumaguete, and Iloilo. Since the organiza than 31,000 lives have been changed by Operation Smile in while more than 600 patients have been encoded in the app.

Meanwhile, Secured Health Information Network and Exchange or SHINE OS+, an electronic medical record (EMR) and referral sys- tem was launched in 2011 . Today, it is deployed in rural health units and communities nationwide.

A new plug-in for SHINE OS+, called EpiNurse, was also created as an emergency risk reduction tool in Nepal, which had become vulner

Using technology, Smart also tapped the healthcare sector to advance initiatives on wellness, as well as tourism.