[Health] blood microscope

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

This page is also relevant.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health

i'd really like that all the peripherals effort follow Open hardware
principles

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Hardware

Please keep on posting about developments on the microscope!

Rafael Ortiz


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:

> Welcome to the list!
> Others more familiar will respond with information about exploratory and
> mostly educational activity projects with the XO for health or medicine.
>
> At least 2 groups have plans to integrate XOs into disaster recovery
> operations.  The Hastily Formed Networks Research Group at the Naval
> Postgraduate School has a project,
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/XOs_for_HADR, underway.  And Professor
> Sonstein at the Rochester Institute of Technology,
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/26February2009,
> has a group working on upgrading the software architecture of Sahana and the
> XO to allow them to self organize during disaster recovery operations.
>
> Having robust and certified medical peripherals would be most welcome!
>
>         --Fred
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Laubscher, Markus <
> markus.laubscher at philips.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi List,
>>
>> We are working on an automated digital microscope with smart blood
>> collection cartridges via fingerprick and image analysis software to
>> diagnose malaria vs. bacterial vs. viral infections. We need a computation
>> platform and look at the XO (and later generations) with great interest.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am new on the list and have a couple of questions:
>>
>>
>>
>> Are there already other microscope add-ons developed?
>>
>> How is the health application part of OLPC organized?
>>
>> Are there any health-related projects deployed in the field  yet or coming
>> up soon?
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Markus
>>
>>
>>
>> *Dr. Markus Laubscher*
>> Senior Scientist
>> Philips Research
>>
>> High Tech Campus 34, 7.043
>> 5656 AE Eindhoven (Netherlands)
>> Phone: +31 (0)40-27 47705*
>> *Fax: +31 (0)40-27 46321
>> email: markus.laubscher at philips.com
>>
>>
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