http://healafrica.ericnguyen.com/ 2009-10-26T02:35:44-07:00 http://healafrica.ericnguyen.com/ http://healafrica.ericnguyen.com/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-12-28T11:37:53-07:00 http://healafrica.ericnguyen.com/doku.php?id=ict:bakesemail2008&rev=1230493073&do=diff Email from Paul Bakes to Steve Conrad and Eric Nguyen, December 2008 Here is an update after my 4 weeks in Goma September and October. I will try to cover some of the stuff on the wiki and give you a full update too. [...] Quick update on wiki hardware needs: text/html 2008-12-27T02:31:01-07:00 http://healafrica.ericnguyen.com/doku.php?id=ict:bakesreport2008&rev=1230373861&do=diff Installed and tested by Paul Bakes as part of the Australian team September 2008 Background The Australian medical team identified the need for basic network (LAN) functionality in the hospital after one of their regular visits in 2007. They reported the benefits for Heal Africa administration if there was sharing and central storage of relevant hospital data. David Kelly, as part of his audit of administrative functions within the hospital, also identified a similar need. There is already … text/html 2008-12-27T03:15:18-07:00 http://healafrica.ericnguyen.com/doku.php?id=ict:emailnotesfeb2008&rev=1230376518&do=diff Below is an email correspondance between Erik Jerde, Eric Nguyen, and Melissa Ho regarding the state of ICT at the HEAL hospital, conducted in February 2008. The messages run from top to bottom, with consecutive responses appearing below. Hi Eric, I'm working with Steve Conrad on the Heal Africa IT trip coming up soon. I'm pretty much the technical lead on the trip. I wanted to touch base with you on a few items that hopefully you can provide me with good information on. text/html 2008-10-29T00:00:01-07:00 http://healafrica.ericnguyen.com/doku.php?id=ict:emrsystemsresearch&rev=1225263601&do=diff This is a place for rough notes on EMR (Electronic Medical Record) systems. More comprehensive systems sometimes refer to themselves as Hospital Management Systems. These were all researched to see where they might fit in HEAL's ICT plan, explained on the HospitalManagementSystems page. text/html 2008-10-29T00:00:00-07:00 http://healafrica.ericnguyen.com/doku.php?id=ict:highbandwidthconnections&rev=1225263600&do=diff On Mar 26, 2008, Melissa wrote: In case it helps, you can refer to my research group's web page on getting point-to-point Wifi working over long distances: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/wiki/Wireless Our longest link is 382km, between a couple of mountains in Venezuela. Basically - the wireless protocol can go about 70km without a problem, after which the throughput starts dropping off unless you adjust the ACK timeout. We (TIER) have a driver for wifi hardware that eliminates that pro… text/html 2008-07-07T20:07:35-07:00 http://healafrica.ericnguyen.com/doku.php?id=ict:hospitalmanagementsystems&rev=1215486455&do=diff As we note on the ICT Home page, “the installation of a Hospital Management System is a large project that has yet to get off the ground. There are multiple approaches to take, depending on how ambitious we want to be, feature-wise. Short-term needs would also be addressed by a very different system than Long-term ones.” text/html 2008-12-28T11:33:36-07:00 http://healafrica.ericnguyen.com/doku.php?id=ict:ict&rev=1230492816&do=diff Welcome to the HealAfrica IT Planning wiki. At the moment, we are collecting information to help us evaluate solutions to put in place in Goma and brainstorming potential projects. Bring higher-bandwidth connection to HA in Goma We have a Terracom card (Operating through RwandaTel) that Bridget left here for use at the hospital. She says that it is paid up for two years, starting on 8/2007. We've started using it as the connection for a separate network in the hospital. text/html 2008-07-07T20:10:13-07:00 http://healafrica.ericnguyen.com/doku.php?id=ict:ongoinghardwareneeds&rev=1215486613&do=diff From Steve Conrad, emailing the team headed by Paul Bakes, who will be coming to Goma in September 2008: “Before you go, we can check in with Bizi to find out what parts he needs for the various computers. I know that he needs power supplies for 3 HP desktop computers (HP d530sff). We also need several 256 MB PC2100 memory modules. And we do need the laptop hard drives as well. I am not sure if Eric or Melissa will be down here before you go, but we should keep a list on the wiki of parts t…