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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Partners In Health is interested in OLPC. Various
colleagues have had meetings and discussions with the OLPC team. I don’t
feel like I can do justice to all the discussions and possible collaborations. There
is much synergy with locations (<st1:country-region w:st="on">Haiti</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Peru</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Rwanda</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Lesotho</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malawi</st1:place></st1:country-region>),
and belief in a preferential option for the poor. 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="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Peru</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
out main focus is health care. 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></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='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’s homes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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 <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Boston</st1:place></st1:City> and on our electronic medical record
system (OpenMRS). I am very interested to see the path of OLPC into the
health community.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<pre><tt><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Ellen Ball<o:p></o:p></span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font
size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='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=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Partners In Health – <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></tt></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre></div>
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