Mikhail Elias

Mikhail Elias started a discussion "Partner SMS Service" in the Health IT community.

This system seems like a good starting point, but could also be extended further. Why not offer a mobile phone service that allows two people to send each others cell phone numbers to an SMS service and receive back the other person's HIV status from a trusted authority to whom this information has been previously made available by the testing facility? To ensure privacy, this system could be based on a strictly-enforced opt-in consent model, ...

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

Anything is possible in terms of technical feasibility. I would not focus on the technical issues at the moment. The issue is really about what research question are you hoping to answer with this approach? What added value does spatial information provide? Can you provide a study design that includes a research question that can be tested using a case-control intervention? And what granularity of information do you require? Is knowing the person's place of ...

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

I'm interested in innovations that can tackle the problem of limited bandwidth or unreliable connectivity. I like message queuing architectures that enable asynchronous communications. One key challenge is figuring out how to interconnect and manage sub-networks of clinics in remote third-world regions where there is no guarantee of reliable connectivity to the broader internet. Lightweight, open-source grid management tools can perhaps automate remote system administration in such environments. What are the best tools for automating ...

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

A quick follow-up comment - Check out the Dropbox forum discussions about using Tiddlywiki. It's a pretty interesting and lightweight solution to the problem of collaborative authoring using wikis in an environment with intermittent connectivity, where some level of access control needs to be enforced. Another option is outlined here: http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/comp/graduates/archives/bitt/2006/kim.pdf Confluence may be better as an enterprise solution, and it has a robust security model built in. It's also free to nonprofits, etc., and ...

Mikhail Elias replied to "Virtual disease management" in the Health IT community.

Could you also clarify whether you are referring to 'virtual nurses' that are implemented in software versus actual humans? I'm working on a project that is designed to replace the human healthcare provider with a virtual healthcare agent that can support patient care in remote, medically-underserved third-world areas (or, your average uninsured, urban American). Assuming the presence of basic communications channels with the patient - phone, texting, etc., the robotic nursing coordinator will be able ...