ELMR: Lightweight Mobile Health Records
Summary: ELMR enables health workers to access and update records over a severely bandwidth-limited 140-byte SMS channel. It uses J2ME RMS instead of heavy SQL, enabling consistent record handling in an HIV-treatment app for African health workers on constrained networks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Arvind Kumar (New York University)
- 2. Amey Purandare (New York University)
- 3. Jay Chen (New York University)
- 4. Arthur Meacham (New York University)
- 5. Lakshminarayanan Subramanian (New York University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{kumar_sigmod09,
title = {{ELMR: Lightweight Mobile Health Records}},
author = {Kumar, Arvind and Purandare, Amey and Chen, Jay and Meacham, Arthur and Subramanian, Lakshminarayanan},
series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559974},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559974},
year = {2009}
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