Dear All,<br><br>Yes I have the point for OLPC for community health workers (CHW) already on this network. I am working on how we can run some pilots with them in Africa you see how they will react. Already numerous CHW are using PDAs and mobile phones for health care in Africa and other developing countries.<br>
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Partners In Health is interested in OLPC. Various colleagues have had<br>
meetings and discussions with the OLPC team. I don't feel like I can do<br>
justice to all the discussions and possible collaborations. There is<br>
much synergy with locations (Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi), and<br>
belief in a preferential option for the poor. Although PIH is connected<br>
with some school in the Central Plateau of Haiti and a small<br>
summer/afterschool programs in Peru, out main focus is health care. It<br>
would be wonderful for the children of our catchment areas (and<br>
throughout the world) to have access to a cool OLPC XO.<br>
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>From my viewpoint, areas that would benefit from an inexpensive and low<br>
power laptop would include data collection by community health workers,<br>
mobile clinics, and education provided by community health workers in<br>
rural patient's homes.<br>
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I participated in an OLPC workshop in the Fall and attended a meeting<br>
with SJ Klein in early April, but cannot address all the needs at PIH.<br>
My view is slanted by working in Boston and on our electronic medical<br>
record system (OpenMRS). I am very interested to see the path of OLPC<br>
into the health community.<br>
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Ellen Ball<br>
Medical Record Systems team<br>
Partners In Health - Boston<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr Adesina Iluyemi<br>PhD Researcher Policy and Sustainbale Change Management: eHealth and Mobile/Wireless Telecommunication convergence in Africa<br>UKCHIP Level 2<br>Centre for Healthcare Modelling & Informatics<br>
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