Baskhar, Your original post is what allerted me to this product potential. That coupled with its network/power suppot is what makes this product interesting. Notice "wind-up" power. When I saw Negroponte discuss this on MSNBC he mention a crank for power.
" What is the $100 Laptop, really? The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based, full-color, full-screen laptop that will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data. These rugged laptops will be WiFi- and cell phone-enabled, and have USB ports galore. Its current specifications are: 500MHz, 1GB, 1 Megapixel." thurman > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardhats- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of K.S. Bhaskar > Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 10:04 AM > To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Hardhats-members] OpenVistA CRT [was $100 Notebook - disaster > health?] > > Thurman -- > > That is an interesting idea. Another is to use live CDs to leverage > locally available PCs. Below is something I posted last week on the > vista-responders mailing list. > > -- Bhaskar > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > OpenVistA Crisis Response Tool [OpenVistA CRT] > > The OpenVistA Crisis Response Tool is a specially configured version of > VistA that can be rapidly deployed anywhere in the world. It requires > only universally available, generic, PC hardware (a minimum of 100MHz > CPU, 500MHz preferred; 128MB RAM, 512MB preferred; 1GB disk or USB > flash/hard drive; 10GB preferred). The tool is located on high > bandwidth servers at multiple locations throughout the world [like > Source Forge], and is freely downloadable and redistributable. A CD-ROM > and USB flash drive or USB hard drive are light enough, small enough and > inexpensive enough, that they can also be packed as part of emergency > responders' tool kits [presumably emergency responders have pre-packaged > kits ready to fly out at a moment's notice]. > > When deployed in a crisis situation, the primary purposes include: > > 1. Registering victims. > > 2. Managing relief supply inventories. > > 3. Electronic health records for urgent and routine primary care > provided to victims. > > [There are probably other needs I have overlooked.] > > Additionally, since refugee populations are mobile, there will be means > for the interchange of information between different instances of > OpenVistA CRT, both online [e.g., HL7 messages] or offline [e.g., from > the backup copy of the database of an invocation, or from a flat file > export]. [Note that this implies a need to merge records from different > invocations, and that the same patient may have different ids on > different invocations.] > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 23:47 -0500, Thurman Pedigo wrote: > > http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ > > > > http://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/ > > > > > > > > Negroponte proposed this product for education. With VistA loaded, > > think how it could work in disaster health systems. I can't help > > wondering what it would be like to be associated with a system that > > housed these three - Negroponte, Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker. > > > > > > > > thurman > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
