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Aaron Beals

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About Aaron Beals
Aaron works at the Global Health Delivery Project as the Director of GHDonline.org.

Role(s) / Profession(s)

  • Director (Site, Program, Project)
  • Information Technology Professional
  • Software Developer, Engineer

Organization

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Global Health Equity
    Website: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/socialmedicine/ Type: Medical Institution Country: United States About: The Division of Global Health Equity (DGHE) is dedicated to addressing health disparities through training, education, research and service. The Division focuses on infectious diseases (e.g., HIV and tuberculosis) as well as non-infectious diseases (e.g., coronary artery disease and diabetes) and other health problems of major importance across the globe. Through the hospital’s Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity, internal medicine residents in training divide their time between BWH and Partners In Health project sites. This model is now being replicated at other medical schools and teaching hospitals across the country.
  • GHDonline
    Website: http://www.ghdonline.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States About: GHDonline is a platform of communities developed by the Global Health Delivery Project. GHDonline is where health care implementers share proven practices, connect with colleagues, and find resources they need to improve health outcomes in resource-limited settings.
  • Global Health Delivery Project
    Website: http://globalhealthdelivery.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States About: The Global Health Delivery (GHD) Project is working to systematize the study of health care delivery, to disseminate new learning to practitioners, and improve health care delivery in resource-limited settings.

Work Location(s)

  • United States

Aaron's Communities

Language(s)

  • English

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    Aaron Beals started a discussion "Google Noticeboard: Applications in Global Health?" in the Health IT community.

    Google Labs in India recently released an application called "Google Noticeboard" -- it's essentially a voicemail-based message board aimed at communities (esp villages) with shared access to a small handful of computers. They have even built it to be robust in the face of intermittent/slow network connections. The focus on voicemail vs written messages is presumably to enable everyone, even the illiterate, to participate. http://www.google.co.in/labs/noticeboard/index.html What are the potential applications in the realm of health ...

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    Aaron Beals started a discussion "GHC 2009 Conference" in the Health IT community.

    I'm heading to DC for the Global Health Council Conference today: http://www.globalhealth.org/conference_2009/ Is anyone else from the Health IT community planning to be there for part or all of the conference? Anyone planning to present or have a booth set up? -Aaron

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    Aaron Beals replied to "Low prevalence of comprehensive EMR systems in US hospitals except the VA" in the Health IT community.

    Om, Jay, These are the sorts of discussions that are perfect to hold on GHDonline, rather than taking them offline or creating a separate channel -- we certainly encourage lengthy banter! The Health IT community does have mailing-list-like functionality, but also provides a web interface ( http://www.ghdonline.org/tech/) where--to borrow your words, Om--"the conversation [is] discoverable". Others are able to not only read the entire discussion and contribute to it via the web, but can also ...

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    Aaron Beals replied to "rapidSMS, an SMS platform for health systems" in the Health IT community.

    Thanks for posting this, Joaquin. I heard about rapidSMS at the GHC conference and started thinking about uses for SMS within the global health world. What do other folks in the Health IT community think about the use of SMS vs longer-form input (via smart phones, etc) for health care purposes? Are the applications severely limited due to the length of text messages? Many of of the applications I've seen so far have focused on ...

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    Aaron Beals replied to "Low-cost, diskless computer prototype" in the Health IT community.

    @Om Good point about the vulnerabilities, though I'd argue that the Ubuntu repository managers do a good job of issuing patches regularly... which leads me to my main point: Not to fork the discussion too much here, but what's the best way to keep Linux-based machines--whether Ubuntu, Presto, or any other distro--up to date? Most distros now include update managers, but how many end users that we're looking to outfit with these machines will end ...

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