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Owais Ali

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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.

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Owais Ali replied to "Suitable GPS enabled PDAs" in the Health IT community.

Thank you all for your prompt replies. I actually work at IRD and we are currently using the Nokia 2710 NE using openXdata. I just wanted to get a sense of what other alternatives were currently being used. The HTC G1 while powerful, is around 4-5 times the price of the Nokia 2710, at least in Pakistan and does not seem very feasible for us. I think we will stick with the Nokia phones for ...
Owais Ali replied to "Suitable GPS enabled PDAs" in the Health IT community.

We will using around 10-12 handsets over a period of 2-3 years.
Owais Ali started a discussion "Suitable GPS enabled PDAs" in the Health IT community.

Dear All, I am part of a team seeking to implement the X out TB intervention in Pakistan. For those unfamiliar with the intervention please see the links below for more details: http://mobileactive.org/x-out-tb-addressing-tb-noncompliance-mobile-phones http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/tb-cellphone-tt0604.html We are looking to distribute phones to our heath workers so that they are able to record the GPS coordinates of each of the 2,000 patients visited (since these patients will need to be revisited multiple times). Moreover, we are also ...

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