Claim Mobile Part Deux: We’ve set up netbooks and phones in three clinics so far (two bundled with solar power), and we’re looking to see how the introduction of these new technologies change the management of health care information and communication between the OBA health facilities and the OBA management agency, as well as the management of health information within the OBA health facility itself.
Posts under ‘Field Work’
WECARE goes to Africa Part III
Laura’s back in Africa for her third trip to Kofan Gayan Memorial Hospital, a rural municipal hospital (district hospital) in northern Nigeria, where she’s provisioning solar power to support lighting (led headlamps and DC led floodlamps) and communications (icom walkie talkies) for a maternity ward. While she’s there, she’s emailing periodic updates about her progress, [...]
First HealthyBaby Birth
As I have been pre-occupied with writing lectures for my class, and setting up my research, my collaborating partners at Marie Stopes International Uganda have been busy launching a new phase of the output-based aid voucher program, financing in-hospital delivery of babies, in addition to the in-clinic treatment of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs). The [...]
Netbook Mania
So one of the outcomes of my study last August is that admittedly.. people don’t want mobile phones for their health records, they want laptops. And these new netbooks – well they cost the same as these smartphones. But last August, the eeepcs had a battery life of 1.5 hours and only about [...]
Epocrates for developing countries?
So I’m talking to my doctor about possible drug interactions between various prescriptions and he pulls out a… (drum roll) palm treo. Oh okay so that’s probably not a major revelation.. doctors love Palm devices and have loved them pretty much since 3COM started making them back in the 90s. (Can I say that [...]
Talk: Musings on Going to Goma
As a follow-up to my missions trip to Goma this past summer my teammates and I did a two hour presentation for our church, talking about what we did, and what we’re planning to do.
Normally I’m pretty skeptical about missions. I mean really – what depth is there to going out to beaches over [...]
Event: Blum Student Symposium – Smartphones and Healthcare Information Management in Uganda
Hi all,
I gave a presentation at the Blum Student Symposium last Thursday.
For anyone that’s interested, the slides (65MB) are downloadable here:
http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/~melissa/blum-symposium-oct-04-07.ppt
The talk was about current health information practices in rural health clinics in Uganda, how PDAs have been integrated into a particular district, and our projections for what we’re working on now.
The future symposiums look [...]
Meraki Routers in the Congo…
I’m terrible with the cross-posting..
For those of you interested in my work in Goma, Congo, check out my team blog:
http://gomateam.blogspot.com
Also, for a more recent technical update, you can check out Eric Nguyen’s blog here:
http://mindtangle.net/2007/09/08/work-update/
For those of you interested in learning more about HEAL Africa, PBS is showing a documentary called Lumo on KQED Channel 9 [...]
Staying Wired via Wireless
One of my (many) projects here was to set up GPRS for my multitude of smartphones. Out of the array I brought with me to Africa, I selected four to bring to Ghana, picking that number so I would have two and each of Paul and Rowena could use one. The finalists: my trusty personal [...]
Solar Power and Mbarara Update
It’s been a busy couple of weeks, with not nearly enough access to internet cafes!
This week I am back in Mbarara, currently using the computer science lab (which is empty because the students are all doing exams now), but also meeting with various professors here (again!) and working with Ben and Richard on the Smartphones [...]
