[Health] Fwd: Health OLPC

Paul Commons paulcommons at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 02:40:44 EDT 2008


Grey,

I'm familiar with Global Medical Brigades.  I've actually done a trip
in Honduras.  I brought roughly 15 XOs to Montana de Luz next to
Sociedad in Nuevo Paraiso.  You may or may not have heard of that.  I
can put you in contact with Elen Costigan, the director of the
organization.  She may be able to lend you one of the children's
laptops as a way to find out if this is something you're interested in
pursuing.

I'm currently in the Limpopo region of South Africa doing the
country's 2nd deployment of 100 XOsin 3 separate schools.

I'd like to know more about what you're planning.  Are you located in
the States?  I return on Saturday.  Would you like to set up a talk?

Cheers,
Paul

On 9/1/08, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
>> I apologize for the lack of my time on replying and getting involved
>> such great people.
>> Anyone who is interested may please reply to Jason.
>>
>> best regards
>> Arjun
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Jason Grey Faulkenberry <jgfaulkenberry at gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 6:26 PM
>> Subject: Health OLPC
>> To: arjun at laptop.org
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>   My name is Grey Faulkenberry and I am part of a group called Global
>> Brigades.  We are a non-profit organization that began in Honduras,
>> and now also have projects in Ghana, India, and Panama.  We do a
>> number of types of projects including business brigades and
>> microloans, water brigades with various purification projects, and
>> numerous health projects including chimneys and latrines.
>
> Can we talk about supporting your health initiatives with electricity
> and Internet connections?
>
>>    I am personally involved primarily with our medical brigade
>> program, and will be it's director next year.  I am writing because I
>> am interested in purchasing some XO laptops later this year in the buy
>> one get one opportunity.
>
> GiveOneGetOne units go for $399. If you and others working with you
> can use 100 units, the price comes down to $299 each through GiveMany,
> and you don't have to wait for G1G1 to start in order to place your
> order.
>
>> I wrote to the main website and they
>> directed me to talk to you about what you have done and accomplished.
>> I also wanted to see if there were opportunities where I might be able
>> to help with your project.  Finally, I was wondering if you know of
>> anyone that successfully setup an electronic medical record on an XO
>> laptop.  I saw that a number of people were using VistA.  This is
>> great, but I was wondering if anyone has tried OpenMRS.  It's an
>> electronic medical record, but is a free open-source program.
>
> So is OpenVistA, and there are others.
>
>> Its
>> website is http://openmrs.org/wiki/OpenMRS.  I think this could have
>> some advantages over VistA.  It is already being used in multiple
>> developing countries for many purposes
>
> So is VistA.
>
>> and it is based on a data model
>> with a concept dictionary, allowing it to be growable.
>
> VistA is based on the database engine in MUMPS.
>
>> It was started
>> by Paul Farmer, known at least in the medical circle, as the "Father
>> of International Medicine."
>
> Now that's something nobody else can match. Many of us would be
> delighted to get his software onto XOs, and to link our programs
> together.
>
>>   Again, I just wanted to get in touch, because I hope to be able to
>> use some of your projects in the future. Let me know if there's anyway
>> I can help out.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Grey Faulkenberry
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=SwcSEcfR464
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