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Neal Lesh

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About Neal Lesh

Role(s) / Profession(s)

  • Administrator (CEO, COO, President, Executive)

Organization

  • D-tree International
    Website: http://www.d-tree.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States About: D-Tree International is committed to assisting health care workers improve their services while supporting better planning and management of scarce health resources. In order to achieve this vision, D-Tree is developing both the protocols and the training and support systems needed for wide scale implementation of technology-enhanced health service delivery at the local level. This is accomplished by working with local institutions that, together with D-Tree, provide training, support, and maintenance. In addition to the protocols, D-Tree is also developing data collection systems for use by governments, NGOs and other appropriate groups who have need for unbiased information about disease incidence in the population. Finally, D-Tree is designing and maintaining the PDA- and mobile phone-based software and hardware necessary for the system. D-Tree believes this comprehensive, multi-level approach is the key to implementing effective programs that also lay the groundwork for larger scale-up.

Work Location(s)

  • United States

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Language(s)

  • English

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    Neal Lesh replied to "Laptops and CHWs" in the Health IT community.

    Hi everybody. I wanted to mention another open source project that many of my colleagues and I are working on that is also using mobile phones to support community health workers. It’s called CommCare and is an application built on the open source JavaROSA codebase (code.javarosa.org), which runs on a wide range of Java-enabled phones and is being used to support many different mobile health applications in low-income countries. CommCare is being collaboratively developed by ...

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    Neal Lesh 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 everybody, Thanks for this terrific discussion! I'm writing to see if the panelists or others with experience from this disaster might write a bit more about what we should be doing to prepare for future ones. What were the biggest positive impacts of the systems deployed? Looking back, are there some services or applications that stand out as being especially useful in the weeks that followed the disaster? For example, was it in fact ...

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    Neal Lesh replied to "Local Development Panel Discussion (July 19-30th, 2010)" in the Health IT community.

    Hi everybody, In anticipation of the panel discussion, I'm attaching the Bios of the panelist and moderators. Looking forward to when we start this next week! Take care, -neal

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    Neal Lesh replied to "Local Development Panel Discussion (July 19-30th, 2010)" in the Health IT community.

    Welcome to the second panel of GHDonline Health IT community! This will run for the next two weeks. The topic is local software development for global eHealth. This can be a difficult and delicate topic, but we are confident that we can have a constructive and open conversation. Please share your stories, questions, comments, and proposals with us! Some of the questions we’d like to explore are: 1. What is the current contribution of local ...

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    Neal Lesh replied to "Local Development Panel Discussion (July 19-30th, 2010)" in the Health IT community.

    Hi again. Here is the 2nd round of comments from the panelist, describing some of the context and challenges around local software development. We'll post the 3rd and last comments later on, after we have some time for questions and comments from you all! Ali Habib, Pakistan: IRD is working actively to enhance its contributions to open source mHealth software by increasing our involvement in software development. I’m of the opinion that local programmers working ...

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