Nokia is providing technology that allows mobile phones to track the spread of infection in real-time in remote locations with an application called HealthRadar, the company said in a blog post yesterday.

HealthRadar, an application for Symbian devices, improves data collection by automatically distributing information from a number of phones to a central server, where it is then aggregated back to local practitioners.

Daily reports are sent to field physicians by SMS. Users can view maps that show disease intensity in geographic locations. Comparisons of current patterns with historical statistics are also available. The software is an exciting and interesting example of how the use of mobile devices brings the power of computing to the real world and gets results.

Source: Mobile Burn