Michael Lipnick
About Michael Lipnick
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Physician
Organization
- Brigham And Women's Hospital - BWH
- Global Partners in Anesthesia and Surgery - GPAS
Language(s)
Recent Contributions
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Michael Lipnick replied to "Clinic management software" in the Health IT community.
Howdy, I have been working on a few health IT projects in Kampala, based out of Makerere/Mulago. I think the Healthnet Uganda group is great. We have worked together in the past. Lately I have been working with Appfrica Labs (a Kampala-based software company)... we are working on an open source SMS results manager for OpenMRS to launch in Uganda/Rwanda later this year (www.resultsSMS.org). The Appfrica group has some experience with OpenMRS and since they ...
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Michael Lipnick replied to "simple orthopedic problems" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
Norm, As you have probably already discovered, helping out with supply and organization of anything in East Africa can be challenging... I have spent time trying to help organize equipment donations and biomedical support for the past 5 years at Mulago Hospital in Kampala and would be happy to share more about my experiences there. The WHO publishes guidelines on appropriate equipment donations. A few questions to help guide my response: -What type of hospital ...
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Michael Lipnick replied to "Panel Discussion: Building sustainable partnerships to strengthen surgical and anesthesia capacity in resource-poor settings." in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
For those interested but unable to attend the conference... I will be tweeting from the conference tomorrow... follow #globalsurgery @globalpas or @mlipnick I will also try to post presentation's powerpoints to this thread along with some commentary tomorrow.
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Michael Lipnick replied to "Panel Discussion: Building sustainable partnerships to strengthen surgical and anesthesia capacity in resource-poor settings." in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
Task Shifting Presentation from the recent conference.
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Michael Lipnick replied to "Panel Discussion: Building sustainable partnerships to strengthen surgical and anesthesia capacity in resource-poor settings." in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
Entertaining presentation on enduring partnerships.
Recent Recommendations
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