Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson replied to "Creating an intranet for PIH-Rwanda" in the Health IT community.

Regarding file and calendar sharing: Aptivate (non-profut IT consultancy) has developed an open-source intranet application in PHP for the Nigerian SPARC project, with bandwidth use specifically in mind. SPARC was very impressed by its speed and ease of use. You are free to use it. If you are interested we can set up a demo site for you. Regarding email with offline capacility: Thunderbird, Evolution and Microsoft Outlook all have the ability to cache remote ...

Chris Wilson replied to "GHDonline Health IT Expert Panel April 19-30: “Health IT for Disaster Relief and Rebuilding: Lessons from post-earthquake Haiti.”" in the Health IT community.

Hi Myles and all, On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, GHDonline (Myles Clough) wrote: > Looking down the road on this we are hoping to develop a global trauma > data collection system which is usable in all the LMICs. The disaster > database is (in our view) an urgent special case; if the community can > develop a system which is robust enough to work in that situation we > think that an expanded version ...

Chris Wilson replied to "Member Spotlight: Yaw Anokwa July 25-29" in the Health IT community.

Hi Joaquin, On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, GHDonline (Joaquin Blaya) wrote: > Another obstacle we have found, and this is not only for open source, is > that it's a complicated and long process to translate what the user > (such as a doctor or director of a project) wants into an actual system > that they like or can use. This is helped by open source software in > that you can show them ...

Chris Wilson replied to "Member Spotlight: Yaw Anokwa July 25-29" in the Health IT community.

Hi all, Another two cents on IT projects failing due to over-design and lack of user involvement, this time from the UK NHS: 'A Public Accounts Committee report says mounting problems with the electronic records system were making the £7bn [$10bn] project "unworkable"...' 'He also said they were working on changing the proposed system "from a programme that is top-down and centralised to one that genuinely is led" by its users.' <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14386753> Cheers, Chris. -- ...