Journal of Health Informatics in Developing Countries

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Permalink Reply by Abbas Shojaee on April 29, 2008 at 1:44am

Very nice idea, congratulations

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Permalink Reply by Farhad Fatehi on April 29, 2008 at 11:05am

Chris,
Can we develop a list of journals on Health Informatics somewhere here?

Farhad.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Paton on April 29, 2008 at 1:29pm

Good idea! I'll start a new discussion thread.

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Gil (Gunter) Pollanz on April 29, 2008 at 8:23pm

I need some info from our friends that reside in developing countries. In the West medical informatics run into ground because we have not mastered to get any kind of standard into our hospitals as the major source of prime medical data.
If we could somehow visualize that we do not have to go through that in developing countries since they are capable of jumping one, two or three medical-IT-generations we might be able to define goals much easier there than back home in developed countries.
On question is i.e. whether jumping forward an storing a person's medical data on USB devices could run down cost and improve efficiency enormously. USB are having today so much storage capacity that you can acutally load data depository, medical software, pahrmacological software, the IDC-10 DB directly on a USB rather than trying to get hospitals get organized for mass data for which there is neither a budget nor an economic or health care will? Why not to move straight forward to the consumer? it worked in China with Mobile Phones, so in othe developing countries. Why not in taking care on one's medical data pesonally?
Gil

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Permalink Reply by abid on June 24, 2008 at 4:24am

Respected dr. Gil,
I live in a developing country, and I am agree with you on the provision of USB at each level of the hospital for their data storage. We are taking health informatics seriously In our country. Most of the hospitals have database, EHR, and etc. But still we are woundering becouse all these hospitals are not linked, and most of the doctors are unaware of using latest IT tool for health managment and provision of health services.
Dr. Abid Hussain

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Permalink Reply by Ebone on August 10, 2008 at 11:00am

Hi Dr. Gil, this sounds so wonderful and the beauty of it is the ease with which it can be implemented. I've thought of the people in the poor rural african communities who have made an effort to own a mobile phone. You know if they are made to understand the importance and usefulness of having their primary and medical records readly available in a USB, they will purchase them. I wish i had seen this article before deciding on my master's thesis. Am working on developing a HIS for reporting MNCH interventions at the community level and then linking it to the national system. Many mothers actually die from childbirth causes at the facilities because the recieving doctors/nurses lack primary information on the patients. By the time they finish foraging for this information, it's too late to save the woman in labor. Imagine the benefits of storing these information in a USB for every expectant mother during her first (and maybe only) visit to the clinic. She keeps it with her and has it whenever she travels. The inforamation that shouldnt be seen by everyone will of course be secured with a password at the stage of DB creation. I will still look at a possibility of including this to my work and let you know.
We can computerize systems, but hosptal systems are not linked, most rural facilities lack computers and most health personnel lack IT knowledge. But with this useful info in a USB, its just a matter of inserting it in a laptop, desktop or PDA computer and one will be able to retrieve primary and medical information about a patient. Thanks so much Dr. Gil for this brilliant idea. Hope it materialises somehow somewhere. Best,
Ebone.

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Permalink Reply by Mathew Mndeme on March 20, 2009 at 4:42am

good research work Miss Ebone...how far are you now?

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Welch on September 26, 2009 at 8:08am

Hi Ebone
There is a system here in the US that might help you , the company has life saving info on a USB . If you need any help please let me know ,If I might be able to help you.. Please respone to me

Bryan

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Permalink Reply by Mathias Lin on September 10, 2008 at 2:25am

What do you mean by 'it worked in China with Mobile Phones, so in othe developing countries.' ? What kind of mobile phone usage? In the field of healthcare?

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Permalink Reply by Theresa Eleanor Anno on May 14, 2008 at 5:35am

hi,
what's the way forward. we need sometime here in say a place like ghana to have it kick.

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Permalink Reply by Adebowale on May 18, 2008 at 11:38am

Its a nice development and its even better that its an open access resource.

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Permalink Reply by adeoye adekunle on June 2, 2008 at 1:48pm

This is a lovely initiative, i believe that the people of developing countries will appreciate this effort

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