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.
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WE CARE Solar on PRI
One of WE CARE’s solar suitcases (www.wecaresolar.com) was recently
deployed by Catapult Design in the Minazi Health Post in Rwanda (
http://bit.ly/59j9G ), and PRI included some of the photos in an
article about the project.
On PRI’s The World
Solar medical system
http://www.pri.org/business/social-entrepreneurs/solar-energy-clinics1583.html
A self-contained, solar-powered system for operating rooms ensure clinics in the developing world aren’t impaired by blackouts.
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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 [...]
Mobile Phone Microscope
So last year, our co-winners in the Bears Breaking Boundaries IT for Society contest was a group of students working on attachments for cell phone cameras that could be used for microscopy diagnosis of diseases like malaria. Since then both of our projects have been taken up by the Blum Center for Developing [...]
Solar Power for Emergency Obstetric Care in Nigeria
This is a bit belated (I’m something like 6 months behind on blog posts) but my group got an honorable mention at this year’s Bear’s Breaking Boundaries IT for Society competition. Our project, led by Laura Stachel (MD, studying for a DrPH in the School of Public Health) proposes to provide sufficient reliable power [...]
Under-reported humanitarian stories of 2007
NPR’s All Things Considered recently interviewed Nicholas de Torrente of Doctors Without Borders (the American branch of Medicins Sans Frontiers) about their recently published their top ten under-reported humanitarian stories of 2007:
Displaced Fleeing War in Somalia Face Humanitarian Crisis
Political and Economic Turmoil Sparks Health-Care Crisis in Zimbabwe
Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Spreads As New Drugs Go Untested
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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 [...]
A Cool Viz – Inhabitant:Doctor ratios throughout the world
Rowena sent me this cool visualization (courtesy of Coye):
And this is why I work in Africa…
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