[Telecentres] Rural Tele- medical kit/ rural internet kiosk

[Taran Rampersad]

Elizabeth,

Oddly enough, I'll be heading down to Guyana with a Simputer and doing
some volunteer IT work for a local hospital. Is it possible for me to
contact Edwin directly?

Elizabeth Carll, PhD wrote:

>I have pasted below information, from another list to which I am subscribed,
>which may be of interest to members on this list.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Elizabeth
>
>Dr. Elizabeth Carll
>Focal Point to WSIS
>International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
>Chair, Media/ICT Working Group
>NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York;
>Vice President
>Communications Coordination Committee for the UN
>Tel: 631-754-2424
>Fax: 631-754-5032
>ecarll at optonline.net
>
>
> ***Rural Tele- medical kit***
>
>On Thursday 12 May 2005 19:47, Ponnapa PG wrote:
> n-Logue and Nuerosynaptics yesterday launched the
> rural tele-medical kit at a village in Sivaganga Dist
> in TN . The District collector inaugrated the
> function.
> This kit priced at under Rs 15,000 is connected to the
> rural internet kiosk and can transmit ECG, Pressure ,
> Temp , pulse and stethoscope data.
>
> We will be now taking it to over 100 villages in the  first phase in
>partnership with hospitals .
>
> Ponnapa
>
>Wonderful. I have been talking about the concept for years, but
>you are the first I have seen doing it. Please send full
>details. Can we connect your kit to a Simputer or Mobilis
>running Linux? What are the hardware interfaces? What does the
>software run on?
>
>What about electronic imaging for eye, ear, nose, throat, and
>skin, and for the doctor and patient to see each other? Voice
>over IP so the doctor can ask the patient questions directly?
>
>I have a contact at Stanford University who is also in a startup
>to create non-invasive blood chemistry instruments, starting
>with blood sugar measurements for diabetics. That means that
>they take the measurement by shining light through the skin, and
>don't need to draw even a drop of blood. Would you like to make
>contact with them?
>--
>Edward Cherlin, Simputer Evangelist
>Encore Technologies (S) Pte. Ltd.
>The Village Information Society
>http://cherlin.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>  
>

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