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Julia Irani

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About Julia Irani

Role(s) / Profession(s)

  • Information Technology Professional

Organization

  • Indus Hospital
    Website: http://www.indushospital.org.pk/ Type: Medical Institution Country: Pakistan About: The Indus Hospital is a state of the art tertiary care center accessible to the public free of charge. A team of local and expatriate professionals provide specialized medical care with an emphasis on innovation and research. The tertiary care facilities at the Hospital are complemented by community outreach programs focused on prevention and early detection of disease, encouraging community involvement and ownership.
  • Interactive Research & Development - IRD
    Website: http://www.irdresearch.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: Pakistan About: IRD is a non-profit research and service organization committed to saving lives through improvements in global health. We seek to create opportunities for scientists and entrepreneurs that maximize the impact of health interventions in low-income communities. IRD has active collaborative research agreements with the Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McGill University, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Texas and The Indus Hospital. We have successfully partnered with Johns Hopkins University to bring grants to Pakistan from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation directly and through the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI) and the Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH). Additional grants procured with other university partners include the British Department for International Development, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.

Work Location(s)

  • Pakistan

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Language(s)

  • English
  • Gujarati
  • Urdu

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    Julia Irani replied to "Data Capture: The Right Device for the Job" in the Health IT community.

    Hi all, I think Christian's covered the general spectrum of devices we can use. To take this further, it helps to determine what data we want to capture and what technology we're using to capture that data. Right now I can think of two general groups: 1. Electronic identification of anything. For example, if patients are identified using smart cards/ RFID tags, barcodes, or biometrics, a device that has the capability to capture that information ...

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    Julia Irani replied to "Effectiveness of GPS for following study participants" in the Adherence & Retention community.

    Hi Chorongo Salee, Sorry for my late response, I was at the OpenMRS implementers meeting in Cape Town and then came home to Eid Holidays. Mikhail brought up some important points regarding security. When you use GPS information, you definitely want to access it through a secure log-in to specified users only (in our organization access is typically restricted to 2 or 3 people heading the project), and keep patient identifiers at a minimum when ...

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    Julia Irani replied to "National Dog bite & Rabies surveillance using OpenXdata & Google earth" in the Health IT community.

    Hi Usman, We have a couple of projects running in Karachi using mobile technology, EMRs, and google earth. Here are a few videos to showcase that work: MDR-TB Program: (technologies used: OpenMRS, OpenXdata, google earth) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7RoBIO1xaU Pneumonia Surveillance study - here we're using RFID for patient identification for followup visits (technologies used: Interactive alerts, customized openxdata, google earth & openClinica) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nGxO2Zqe9g A video showcasing the use of google earth for visualizing data: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-3lqG3hSYM In mobile ...

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    Julia Irani started a discussion "MDR-TB in Pakistan" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.

    Greetings, I wanted to share a few short youtube clips highlighting the MDR-TB situation in Pakistan and Indus Hospital’s work reported by Dawn News, a national news channel of Pakistan. Dawn News Life Cycle (3 parts) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPt3LJNqRws http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJZpqEzG-oU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xvnZh3rjlc Best, -- Julia Irani Director, Center for Health Informatics Interactive Research & Development (IRD) Indus Hospital Research Center (IHRC) Pakistan

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    Julia Irani started a discussion "Launch of openXdata in Kampala, Uganda" in the Health IT community.

    OpenXdata – a complete open source mobile phone solution for surveys and studies launched version 1.0 this month! Kampala, Uganda November 12, 2009 – Researchers from Makerere University and their collaborators from Norway, India, Ethiopia, South Africa, the United States and Pakistan unveiled openXdata today, a community-developed, open-source, enterprise end-to-end software solution that revolutionizes surveys and studies by changing the way in which data collection, data management, and data analysis is carried out. Computer scientists ...

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