<div dir="ltr">Dear Holly,<br><br>Welcome to the list. Good to see that more people with interest on using OLPC for health workers in developing countries/Africa are comming on baord. I have proposed to the group sometime ago about initiating some pilot projects in Africa. Will be looking forward on how we can this forward.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Adesina<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/3 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:health-request@lists.laptop.org">health-request@lists.laptop.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Being new to the list, I would be interested to know if there are others working on or considering working on developing diagnostic and treatment algorithms along the lines of knowledge couplers (see <a href="http://www.pkc.com" target="_blank">www.pkc.com</a>) for use by community health workers and others in the developing world, perhaps initially focusing on children's health??<br>
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Good morning (Boston time!)<br>
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I have just joined this list and would like to give you a little<br>
background on our work and find out more about any health<br>
implementations underway.<br>
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We are AED-SATELLIFE - an NGO that has worked in the field of health<br>
information and technology for over 20 years. We disseminate health<br>
content for people working in the developing world and have several<br>
projects on the ground in various countries using technology to expand<br>
access to information and to improve reporting. In 170 remote health<br>
centers in Uganda and 100 in Mozambique we are using handheld computers<br>
and an access point that transfers data via the cellular networks to<br>
support weekly and monthly facility data reporting (utilization, disease<br>
surveillance, vital stats, supply management, etc) to a central server<br>
in the capital and then sends the combined data from all the district<br>
reports back to the appropriate district health office. We also use<br>
this system to send out continuing education three time a week, articles<br>
for the daily newspapers, memos from the district health office or<br>
ministry of health. We have just begun to collect daily register data<br>
from the health centers in Uganda in addition to weekly and monthly<br>
reports. We are working in health centers with very little<br>
infrastructure and relatively unskilled staff. They, by and large, do<br>
not keep individual patient records.<br>
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While the PDAs work well, we would like to try using an energy efficient<br>
laptop (given that in most sites there is no reliable electric y beyond<br>
the solar chargers). We have a good deal of experience with what works<br>
and does not work on the ground. We also have a lot of experience<br>
working with front line health care workers and have a good sense of<br>
what they need, can use and can support.<br>
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As I said at the opening, i would really like to hear if there are any<br>
health deployments of the OLPC yet, if so where and who I can talk to<br>
about your experience to date.<br>
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regards,<br>
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Holly Ladd<br>
VP & Center Director<br>
AED-SATELLIFE Center for Health Information and Technology<br>
30 California Street<br>
Watertwon, MA USA 02472<br>
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