[Health] Partners in Health & International Medical Corps

[Samuel Klein]

I heard from Loren W who had facilitated the meeting; his impression was
they felt disappointed that OLPC wasn't currently looking into, say,
providing XOs to clinics for their field clinicians at scale.  They wanted
to test out some interesting tools for diagnostics, which would be useful
for children an teachers as well -- and could be used to gather data and
bring it on a thumbdrive to a doctor when one goes in to a clinic or to see
a healthworker...  I don't think they quite got to the stage of considering
this a useful extension to their current implementation concepts.

We were waiting for introductions or a contributors-program application from
them; we should follow up again about the shared local contacts for health
materials and on getting their developers machines to develop/test their
tools.

SJ

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:

> (adding SJ on cc)
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Mika Matsuzaki
> <mmatsuza at hsph.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I haven't heard from Jim Kim but SJ, Anna, and I talked to several
> people from Partners in Health about a month ago.
> >
> > SJ -- want to update?
> >
> > Mika
> >
> > >>> "Chris Leonard" <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> 05/06/08 2:12 AM >>>
> > See:
> >
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health_contacts
> >
> >  Partners in Health Mika <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mika> contacted
> Jim
> >
> > Yom Kim. Hasn't heard back in a while. He may be a bit too busy to get
> > involved at this point. February, 2008
> >
> > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Benjamin,
> > >
> > > I remember somewhat off the top of my head that you did tell me about
> > > contacting some organization some time back. Was it any of these ?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > Arjun
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Tom Boonsiri <
> tom.boonsiri at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > Has anyone made contact with the following groups?
> > > > >
> > > > >  Partners in Health (PIH): Fight to bring healthcare equity
> worldwide
> > > > >  and mobilize awareness of health in prevalent and treatable
> health
> > > > >  issues.  PIH brings a type of community based care to struggling
> > > > >  populations worldwide mainly through healthcare
> provider/clinician
> > > > >  training for work in certain regional areas.  Focus centers exist
> in
> > > > >  South America, USA, Africa, Russia. NOTE: We should definitely
> find
> > > > >  substantial contact information from this group, especially
> health
> > > > >  clinicians well versed with problems we might face or need to
> > > address.
> > > >
> > > > I have had previous contact with Paul Farmer, who expressed interest
> > > > in telemedicine. We can now talk to them about many more FOSS health
> > > > applications. When I e-mailed PIH headquarters to suggest a
> > > > partnership, I didn't get a response. This would be a good time to
> try
> > > > again through our wider network.
> > > >
> > > > >  International Medical Corps (IMC): Nonprofit, global group
> dedicated
> > > > >  to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care
> training
> > > > >  and relief and development programs. Its mission is to improve
> the
> > > > >  quality of life through health interventions and related
> activities
> > > > >  that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide.
> > > > >  Includes thousands of trained medical staff.  Primary focus in
> > > > >  disaster relief it seems, but also sustaining improved health
> care
> > > and
> > > > >  way of life after such an event for the long term. NOTE: Key
> group to
> > > > >  contact may be Health Technical Unit (HTU).  They seem to be the
> > > group
> > > > >  that evaluates new ideas with respect to IMC's technical/medical
> > > > >  capability.  They may have strong medical/engineering staff.
> > > >
> > > > Sounds good. I don't know them.
> > > >
> > > > How about Médecins sans Frontières?
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> > > >
> > > >
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