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Jorn Klungsoyr

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About Jorn Klungsoyr

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  • Researcher

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  • Centre for International Health, University of Bergen
    Website: http://www.cih.uib.no/ Type: Academic Institution Country: Norway About: The Centre for International Health is one of 7 departments ("Institutt") at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (MOF), the University of Bergen (UiB). CIH has a particular obligation to working inter-faculty at the UiB and together with other departments at MOF. CIH aims to address health in low-income countries. This is especially done through research, postgraduate teaching and advanced training in areas of importance for collaborating universities and other institutions in low-income countries. CIH is also involved in teaching Global Health issues to undergraduate students in health. CIH and global partners has through projects like http://www.openxdata.org, http://www.epihandy.org, WHO Anthro, mobileHRS and http://www.javarosa.org contributed to the growing attention and implementation of mobile data collection and management.

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  • Norway

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    Jorn Klungsoyr started a discussion "Is it time to think about xHealth instead of mHealth, eHealth etc. ?". in the Health IT community.

    Hi! The past few years the borders between mobile phones, pads, tablets, laptops, convertibles, smart phones, ereaders, desktops +++ has been blurred, and it is now a continuum where devices no longer can be properly categorized. For a long time mHealth has been a hyped field and viewed as the ...

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    Jorn Klungsoyr replied to "Suitable GPS enabled PDAs" in the Health IT community.

    Hi Ali, I suggest you contact IRD - Interactive Research and Development in Karachi (www.irdresearch.org) they are doing large surveys and MDR-TB control using mobile tools based on www.OpenMRS.org and www.openXdata.org You may contact Aamir Khan at: aamir.khan@irdresearch.org Best regards, Jørn ____________________________________________________________________________ Jorn Klungsoyr openXdata - Centre for International Health, ...

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    Jorn Klungsoyr replied to "Bergen Summer Research School - Deadline today! - Course on Mobile Data Capture in Research...." in the Health IT community.

    Hi, We have not thought of that, but making it available also as an online event is a very good idea! At least the lectures etc should be possible to do this way, the hands on labs would be more problematic, but we'll see what we can do. Best Jørn ...

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    Jorn Klungsoyr replied to "Clinic management software" in the Health IT community.

    Hi, Just wanted to say that you may contact Makerere University, Department of Software Innovations. Contact Peter Wakholi and Michael Nitigeya to get support for OpenMRS implemmentations in Uganda. Email addresses: pwakholi AT cit.mak.ac.ug and mniyitegeka AT cit.mak.ac.ug Best regards, Jørn ____________________________________________________________________________ Jorn Klungsoyr openXdata - Centre for International Health, ...

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