No subject

Fri May 9 06:25:50 EDT 2008

power laptop would include data collection by community health workers,
mobile clinics, and education provided by community health workers in
rural patient's homes.

=20

I participated in an OLPC workshop in the Fall and attended a meeting
with SJ Klein in early April, but cannot address all the needs at PIH.
My view is slanted by working in Boston and on our electronic medical
record system (OpenMRS).  I am very interested to see the path of OLPC
into the health community.

=20

Regards,

=20

Ellen Ball
Medical Record Systems team
Partners In Health - Boston
=20

------_=_NextPart_001_01C8B1F1.DAA77981
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<html xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" =
xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" =
xmlns:st1=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" =
xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<head>
<meta http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Dus-ascii">
<meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)">
<o:SmartTagType =
namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
 name=3D"country-region"/>
<o:SmartTagType =
namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
 name=3D"City"/>
<o:SmartTagType =
namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
 name=3D"place"/>
<!--[if !mso]>
<style>
st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }
</style>
<![endif]-->
<style>
<!--
 /* Font Definitions */
 @font-face
	{font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
	panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4;}
 /* Style Definitions */
 p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
	{margin:0in;
	margin-bottom:.0001pt;
	font-size:12.0pt;
	font-family:"Times New Roman";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
	{color:blue;
	text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
	{color:purple;
	text-decoration:underline;}
pre
	{margin:0in;
	margin-bottom:.0001pt;
	font-size:10.0pt;
	font-family:"Courier New";}
tt
	{font-family:"Courier New";}
span.EmailStyle17
	{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
	font-family:Arial;
	color:windowtext;}
@page Section1
	{size:8.5in 11.0in;
	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;}
div.Section1
	{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>

</head>

<body lang=3DEN-US link=3Dblue vlink=3Dpurple>

<div class=3DSection1>

Partners In Health is interested in OLPC. =
&nbsp;Various
colleagues have had meetings and discussions with the OLPC team. &nbsp;I =
don&#8217;t
feel like I can do justice to all the discussions and possible =
collaborations. &nbsp;&nbsp;There
is much synergy with locations (<st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on">Haiti</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">Peru</st1:country-region>, =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on">Rwanda</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on">Lesotho</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Malawi</st1:place></st1:country-region>),
and belief in a preferential option for the poor.&nbsp; Although PIH is
connected with some school in the Central Plateau of Haiti and a small =
summer/afterschool
programs in <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Peru</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
out main focus is health care.&nbsp; It would be wonderful for the =
children of
our catchment areas (and throughout the world) to have access to a cool =
OLPC
XO.<o:p></o:p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>From my viewpoint, areas that would benefit from an
inexpensive and low power laptop would include data collection by =
community
health workers, mobile clinics, and education provided by community =
health
workers in rural patient&#8217;s homes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

I participated in an OLPC workshop in the Fall and =
attended
a meeting with SJ Klein in early April, but cannot address all the needs =
at
PIH. &nbsp;My view is slanted by working in <st1:City =
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place
 w:st=3D"on">Boston</st1:place></st1:City> and on our electronic medical =
record
system (OpenMRS). &nbsp;I am very interested to see the path of OLPC =
into the
health community.<o:p></o:p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<pre><tt><font size=3D2 face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Ellen =
Ball<o:p></o:p></span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font
size=3D2 face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Medical Record =
Systems team</span></font></tt><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><tt><font
size=3D2 face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Partners In =
Health &#8211; <st1:place
w:st=3D"on"><st1:City =
w:st=3D"on">Boston</st1:City></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></tt></=
pre><pre><font
size=3D2 face=3D"Courier New"><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></pre></div>

</body>

</html>

------_=_NextPart_001_01C8B1F1.DAA77981--