[Health] new member, first post

[Arjun Sarwal]

Thanks for the post.

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Niels Olson <niels.olson at gmail.com> wrote:

> hello,
>
> I'm new to the list, Niels Olson. I'm finishing my third year of medical
> school at Tulane, in New Orleans. Prior to medical school I was a surface
> officer in the US Navy and I'll be going back as a Navy doc, hopefully in a
> surgery residency. I learned some LOGO, BASIC, and Pascal between about 10
> and 18 years, but took a decade-long detour in the Navy. A shore duty and
> the OLPC project resparked my interest and since receiving my G1G1 XO I've
> started teaching myself python on the side (using this primer:
> http://openbookproject.net//thinkCSpy/).
>
> I have two kids myself and they've been field-testing the XO . . . I can
> report 3 year-olds seem to have a universal interest in lifting the keys off
> of keyboards, which is particularly ruinous for XOs with their membrane
> keyboards (http://www.flickr.com/photos/niels_olson/2456913119/). I've
> also been thinking about the $10 telehealth module. One simple finding was
> that with a professional stethoscope head and a decent lapel-mic the XO's
> measure activity didn't have good amplitude and range settings to display
> the captured audio. http://nielsolson.us/Haversian/2007/12/stethophone.php
>

We are working on this. Measure doesn't show low frequency signals (eg
1hz-50hz) very well. This was a design trade-off at that point of time. We
can definitely do better than that.

There are other things also that I'd like to add to Measure (or to a
separate version of it) to make it better suited for health applications.
Suggestions welcome.

best
Arjun


>
> Coming from the military I'm definitely interested in VistA, and thus
> WorldVistA. So my interest in the OLPC health project is broad-based, but my
> skill-level is rather shallow still. Obviously my efforts thus far have been
> pretty crude, but I hope to make more productive contributions over time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Niels
>
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Arjun Sarwal
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