Re: Haiti OLPCs - some news

[Guylhem Aznar]

Hello

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:55, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
 On the data entry, what medical software is in use?

There's no data entry for the moment. The first part of the project is
to provide access to html content, with a strong focus on drugs
information, but anything can be put on the SD or USB key.
The olpc are set to use a fullscreen browser with a minimal debian
based distribution.

Using medical entry software is an interesting idea, but I believe
trying to adapt an existing solution instead of creating something
based on the local needs is wasteful.

 Are people thinking about how to network from village to town to city
 for such purposes?

The debian is set up so that when olpcs are near eachother, the
homepage of the fullscreen browser shows the list of near olpcs, with
an hyperlink. The content of the SD and USB keys are shared by default
- therefore if there's no SD or USB key, it shows nothing.

I purchased SD card with USB interface (sandisk) for each olpc. The
idea is to let it inside the olpc, using the USB port to access its
content on another computer if needed. SD are small enough to be
easily exchanged

The idea is to ease the propagation of any html content (the LCD of
text information) between the users.

 Is there any thought about telemedicine using the camera, video chat,
 and data acquisition functions of the XO?

Hopefully - I did some tests, aiming for something simple (saving jpg
files on the USB/SD, to be shared wirelessly).

But for now I want to get the devices in the hard of the users and let
them tell me what they need.

-- 
Dr. Guylhem Aznar, MD PhD

Unité d'Analyse Médico-Économique
Service de Santé Publique et d'Économie de la Santé
Pôle SPSSR
CHU de Fort de France
BP 632
97261 Fort De France Cedex
Martinique, France

Tel : 05 96 55 23 47
Fax : 05 96 75 84 57
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Haiti OLPCs - some news

[Guylhem Aznar]

Hello all,

Long time no see. So I've got news to all y'all volunteers who helped
me raise dead XO to the Vodoo of Haiti :-)

The machine are safely stored in vice director locker of the
University Hospital of Martinique. First tests and OS (non sugar) -
for now, work as expected.
6 terrain units were deployed in the hospital. They performed as
planned (but wifi mesh - last minute mistake I made on a script)

A group of infectiologists and administrators flew to Haiti 2 weeks
ago. There, demos were given to various health programs, mostly
focused around AIDS.
I was told that many people loved the hardware- more so that my
software, but never mind :-) They were glad to see a cheap machine
suited to their terrain. And I'm always glad to give a hand.

My project was about giving drug information to primary practitioners.
But apparently, there's a strong interests in simply using the devices
as data entries for outpatient clinics.

It's an evolving process and I'm open to anything that can help
people, as long as the units are not diverted into some obscure
research program with very little benefits to the sick people.

Soon, we should receive a visit of their team, (I will do my best to
make pictures - I'm not in PR :-) during which I'll offer to adapt for
free their existing software, if they can also put some of the XO
loaded with drugs prescriptions, interactions, etc. to primary care
doctors.

Then finally the XO will be at their new home in Haiti !

-- 
Dr. Guylhem Aznar, MD PhD

Unité d'Analyse Médico-Économique
Service de Santé Publique et d'Économie de la Santé
Pôle SPSSR
CHU de Fort de France
BP 632
97261 Fort De France Cedex
Martinique, France

Tel : 05 96 55 23 47
Fax : 05 96 75 84 57
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