Amy House
About Amy House
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Researcher
Organization
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Global Health Equity
- Global Health Delivery Project
Work Location(s)
- United States
Amy's Communities
Language(s)
- English
- French
- Spanish
Recent Contributions
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Amy House started a discussion "Cross-link: Potential for text messaging to improve tuberculosis treatment compliance" in the Adherence & Retention community.
In this month's issue of The Lancet, Eliza Barclay writes about the potential for text messaging, or SMS, to improve TB treatment adherence. A link to the article is posted in the GHDonline Technology community: http://www.ghdonline.org/tech/resource/text-messages-could-hasten-tuberculosis-drug-compl/
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Amy House started a discussion "Upcoming Discussion about TB Infection Control Programs and Health Systems" in the TB Infection Control community.
Dear TB Infection Control Members, Next Monday, May 4, a new discussion will be posted in the community regarding the various challenges of implementing TB infection control programs in resource-limited settings. The discussion will be kicked off by TB IC members Edwin Bolastig and Dan Osei of Health Systems Action Network (HSAN), a global network of professionals and leaders collaborating to improve health systems: www.hsanet.org. HSAN engages its members in several ways, including hosting regular ...
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Amy House replied to "Crosslink: TB IC Checklist and Scoring system for DOTS Community providers and inpatient centers" in the TB Infection Control community.
Dr. Daniel Fiseha posted a response to this discussion in the Drug Resistant TB community (please see below). Thank you in advance, members of the TB IC community, for any guidance and/or resources you can offer Drs. Fiseha and Singh. In line with the above request, I was looking for TB infection Control assessment tools at the facility level. And are there any TB Infection control indicators that can be monitored and evaluated periodically? Many ...
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Amy House started a discussion "DR-TB in Mumbai, India" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/09/02/mumbai-confronts-drug-resistant-tuberculosis-strain/7092/ This short video examines drug-resistant TB in Mumbai, the largest city in India and one of the most populous cities in the world. The video was produced by Worldfocus (http://worldfocus.org/) and features interviews with patients, doctors and local health officials. Is anyone doing, or has anyone ever done, TB-related work in Mumbai/India, or in other densely populated urban settings? If so, what challenges are you facing, and what programmatic or other interventions are you ...
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Amy House replied to "Text in this document is all garbled with code" in the Health IT community.
Hi Isaac, I was able to open the Word document without any problems, but I went ahead and replaced it with a PDF'd version: www.ghdonline.org/tech/resource/description-of-evaluations-of-telemedicine/ Please let us know if you continue to have difficulty downloading the document. Best, Amy, on behalf of the Health IT Moderators
Recent Recommendations
- None at this time.