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MSF's Scientific Day - focus on Health IT

Just FYI. Tomorrow (May 25th) Medecins Sans Frontieres is hosting their annual "Scientific Day" which anyone can join via live streaming: http://www.msf.org.uk/Scientific_Day.aspx Of interest to members of this group might be that for this conference "a…
By Ashley Raeside on 23 May 2012 0 Recommendations 0 Replies

Job Opening(s) for EMR, Lab systems work in resource poor settings (University of Washington)

[Posted this after checking w/ the moderators - in general I understand that job postings are discouraged, but these were seen as OK. We might want to change the name of this Discussion Topic to something more general, and keep it as an ongoing thread for…
By Bill Lober on 23 May 2012 0 Recommendations 0 Replies

Expert Panel: OpenMRS Implementers: Experiences and Lessons Learned, May 14th to 18th 2012.

Ron I disagree with your comment about "OpenMRS may in fact turn out to be an excellent 'EMR platform', and time will tell. I am referring to the 'feeder' systems for the EMR which are the application software modules (PAS; Pharmacy; General Ledger;…
By A/Prof. Terry HANNAN on 07 May 2012 9 Recommendations 44 Replies

Deadline May 15! Gates Foundation seeks ideas to optimize immunization systems

**Calling everyone with good ideas: engineers, public health professionals, designers, entrepreneurs, students, inventors, nongovernmental organizations, scientists. Please share this announcement with your networks and colleagues. There are only two weeks…
By B B on 02 May 2012 0 Recommendations 0 Replies

Webinar on information system-based disease surveillance in India

(hope this type of announcement is OK - free webinar re a public health informatics topic from a partner in India). Announcement: http://www.syndromic.org/webinars (registration, etc at this link) Don't miss this International Society for Disease…
By Bill Lober on 24 Apr 2012 1 Recommendations 0 Replies

Global Health Medical Device Compendium

Dear All- I thought you might be interested in a recently launched online, active, and open-platform of global health medical devices compendium. You can access it here: http://www.appropedia.org/Portal:Medical_Devices Best, Amir
By Amir Sabet on 20 Apr 2012 0 Recommendations 0 Replies

Fwd: Stars in Global Health: Watch My Video on Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health

Hi everyone, I just wanted to translate Victor's message. he says "I think this is excellent, I work in a region in my country with high infant mortality rate and 70% rural population, I would like to know more about this project. Joaquín…
By Kizito Lubano on 17 Apr 2012 0 Recommendations 2 Replies

"Member Spotlight: Evelyn Castle and eHealth Nigeria".

Dear Evelyn, fantastic work! (perused your website. I would be happy to exchange ideas and discuss ways of collaborating. There is a growing number of individuals with relevant talent now interested in this topic in Nigeria and I think there is plenty of…
By A/Prof. Terry HANNAN on 10 Apr 2012 2 Recommendations 39 Replies

Creating, working in, and evaluating Telemedicine projects

Jerry, This sounds good and Chip told me last week he uses it. They try to respond within 24 hours. Bill On Feb 22, 2012, at 10:40 AM, GHDonline (Richard Wootton) wrote: > Richard Wootton replied to the discussion "Creating, working in, and evaluating…
By A/Prof. Terry HANNAN on 05 Feb 2012 6 Recommendations 45 Replies

GHDonline Health IT Expert Panel April 19-30: “Health IT for Disaster Relief and Rebuilding: Lessons from post-earthquake Haiti.”

Regarding disaster relief, I would recommend focusing first on standardization of best practices, then secondarily on cataloguing and harmonizing data collection practices. Standard protocols for disaster relief should ideally be based on research-driven…
By Joaquin Blaya, PhD on 19 Apr 2010 0 Recommendations 35 Replies
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The incredible potential to improve global health delivery through appropriate use of health information technology (HIT) drives discussion in this community. Members connect to learn about feasibility, planning, and implementation of a broad spectrum of HIT projects, including electronic medical record systems and mobile devices.

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Joaquin Blaya, PhD - Brigham And Women's Hospital - BWH; eHealth Systems; Harvard Medical School; Partners In Health - PIH

Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MRCP, MSc - Brigham And Women's Hospital - BWH; Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT; Partners In Health - PIH

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