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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==


'''Welcome to the OLPC Health Portal. To understand what we're doing and why we're here please read our [[Health/vision|Vision Statement]].'''
'''Welcome to the OLPC Health Project Page. To understand what we're doing and why we're here please read our [[Health/vision|Vision Statement]].'''


We are an interdisciplinary group working on medical-related projects associated with the XO, including software, hardware, and content. Health projects can be a local grassroots undertaking, a student group project, a pilot implementation, a global community creation-sprint weekend - we cut across geographic, disciplinary, and institutional boundaries to help all health-related OLPC work move forward.
We are an interdisciplinary group working on medical-related projects associated with the XO, including software, hardware, and content. Health projects can be a local grassroots undertaking, a student group project, a pilot implementation, a global community creation-sprint weekend - we cut across geographic, disciplinary, and institutional boundaries to help all health-related OLPC work move forward.

We hope you'll join [[Health/People | us]].


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=== Recent news ===

*[http://www.who.int/whosis/whostat/EN_WHS08_Full.pdf 2008 World Health Statistics] (WHO) published.

*The [[Health Jam]] in Seattle, WA took place April 18-20 at the University of Washington. See our [[Health_Jam_Seattle/Results|Results]] and plans for the future.


== Community ==
== Community ==


We're always interested in hearing from, talking with, and collaborating with others with similar interests. No particular experience is required - just a passion for OLPC and the medical field and a willingness to learn. We're all constantly learning from and teaching each other.
We're always interested in hearing from, talking with, and collaborating with others with similar interests. No particular experience is required&mdash;just a passion for OLPC and the health field, and a willingness to learn. We're all constantly learning from and teaching each other.


If you are interested in what we are doing, most of our discussions take place on the [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library Library mailing list], and the best way to join the conversation is to join the list and introduce yourself. You may also add yourself to the [[/People]] list if you want to help out.
If you are interested in what we are doing, since March 2008, most of our discussions take place on the [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/Health Health mailing list]. The [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library Library mailing list] was used before and connects one to the broader community of content discussions. The best way to join the conversation is to join the lists and introduce yourself. '''Note''' that if you are not a list member, any messages you post to a list email address will have to be moderated by the list owner, which results in a delay in distribution.

[http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=Health Log in or create an account] on the OLPC wiki, so you can edit pages and receive email notices of updates on pages you want to watch.


For chat via [[IRC]] you can find us at #olpc-health on freenode. (what is [[IRC]]?)
For chat via [[IRC]] you can find us at #olpc-health on freenode. (what is [[IRC]]?)


We occasionally hold phone meetings, you can find the agenda and minutes at [[Health_meetings|Health meetings]].


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== Health Projects ==


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The Health projects take three major forms; Content, Software and Hardware along with some other organizational and implementation projects.
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= Health Projects =


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=== [[Health Content]] ===
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The Health projects take three major forms; Content, Software and Hardware along with some other organizational and meta-projects.
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We are working to create a comprehensive set of health information modules that are localized to each of the target countries. Over the next several months we will be working to find [[Health_Organizations | partners]] to donate content appropriate for the [[XO]]. There are also several existing copyright-free projects that we are translating and extending such as the [http://ankylosingspondylitisblog.blogspot.com Ankylosing Spondylitis] blog. We will use that content as a starting point, localizing and extending it to meet the needs of the children in our [http://www.laptop.org/map.en_US.html target countries]. For more information on this project, see [[Health_content|Health content]].


==== [[BoliviaGWU|Bolivia Maternal Health Education Project]]====


OLE Bolivia is partnering with them to develop a content/education delivery bundle for field test in March of 2009.
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=== [[Health Content]] ===

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We are working to create a comprehensive set of health modules that are localized to each of the target countries. Over the next several months we will be working to find partners to donate content appropriate for the laptop. We will use that content as a starting point, localizing and extending it to meet the needs of the children in the [http://www.laptop.org/map.en_US.html target countries]. For more information on our primary project, see the [[Health Content]].


==== [[Animal Health]] ====
:Basic animal health care and preventative measures; One, connect basic biology content more closely to the study of human health; and two, directly effect likelihood of animal borne diseases. Animal health and husbandry education could also have sanitation and economic benefits in rural areas. For more information see [[Animal Health]].


=== [[Health Software]] ===
=== [[Health Software]] ===


We are working software projects geared specifically towards Health on the XO, and are adapting existing applications as well. For example [[Measure]] is one example of an existing [[Activity]] being adapted for Health use. By plugging in sensors like an [[TeleHealth_Hardware | EKG]] to the XO's audio-in port, vital signs can be measured via software.
We are working software projects geared specifically towards Health on the XO, and are adapting existing applications as well. For example [[Measure]] is one example of an existing [[Activity]] being adapted for Health use. By plugging in sensors like an [[TeleHealth_Hardware | EKG]] to the XO's audio-in port, vital signs can be measured via software. Vital signs and medical records can also be stored in various medical record software systems. Various people are working on [[WorldVistA#VistA|WorldVistA]] for this purpose.


=== [[Health Hardware]] ===
=== [[Health Hardware]] ===


There are currently several groups working on Health sensors for the XO. Some are a simple as a temperature gauge that can be plugged into the audio-in port and used with [[Measure]]. But the eventual goal of [[Health Hardware]] is a $10USD USB device that can act as a full [[TeleHealth]] remote sensor package for pulse, temperature, blood oximeter, and many other simple sensors. Along with existing components such as the built in [[webcam]] on the XO this will allow doctors to diagnose patients from hundreds of miles away.
There are currently several groups working on Health sensors for the XO. Some are a simple as a temperature gauge that can be plugged into the audio-in port and used with [[Measure]]. But the eventual goal of [[Health Hardware]] is a $10USD USB device that can act as a full [[TeleHealth]] remote sensor package for pulse, temperature, blood oximeter, and many other simple sensors. Along with existing components such as the built in [[webcam]] on the XO this will allow doctors to diagnose patients from hundreds of miles away.
[[File:OLPC tele microscopy.jpeg|600px | thumb |center| 2013 11 27 at the http://eudevdays.eu/topics/science-and-innovation-development. Presentation on the use of a stetoscope, an echography sonar metering device, an e microscope all with an USB plug, plugged in into a laptop allowing remote eHealth consultations. Supported by EU FP7 Funds. Several devices come in kits with a foldable Photovoltaic. Think 2.500 € per kit. Brings the technology to about 25 €/consultation, which is readily refunded by the Peruvian health insurance program.]] More: www.EHAS.org
[[File:OLPC tele-ultrasound.jpg|400px | thumb|center |2013 11 27 at the http://eudevdays.eu/topics/science-and-innovation-development. Presentation on the use of a stetoscope, an echography sonar metering device, an e microscope all with an USB plug, plugged in into a laptop allowing remote eHealth consultations. Supported by EU FP7 Funds. Several devices come in kits with a foldable Photovoltaic. Think 2.500 € per kit. Brings the technology to about 25 €/consultation, which is readily refunded by the Peruvian health insurance program.]] More: www.EHAS.org
[[File:OLPC tele-ultrasound echographia.jpeg|600px | thumb|center |2013 11 27 at the http://eudevdays.eu/topics/science-and-innovation-development. Presentation on the use of a stetoscope, an echography sonar metering device, an e microscope all with an USB plug, plugged in into a laptop allowing remote eHealth consultations. Supported by EU FP7 Funds. Several devices come in kits with a foldable Photovoltaic. Think 2.500 € per kit. Brings the technology to about 25 €/consultation, which is readily refunded by the Peruvian health insurance program.]] More: www.EHAS.org
[[File:SvenAERTSafricaCO2eOnCarbonMoneyForRemoteMedicineOLPC.JPG|600px| center | thumb |2013 11 27 Sven AERTS OLPC Community talking about OLPC at the http://eudevdays.eu/topics/science-and-innovation-development. This resulted in identifying several top players also active in the EU OLPC Community landscape, firing up spirits, stressing teams to document their efforts on this wiki.laptop.org so others could find out about them, link up, built upon projects etc..]]


=== Other Health Projects ===
=== [[Health Misc]] ===


There are other projects that are needed to implement any sort of Healthcare with the XO. There are ongoing efforts to help [[translate]] our content, as well as our software. [[Health Professional | Recruiting]] new healthcare workers, programmers and other tasks is always important and could use your [[Health Professional | help]]. Once our materials are finished, we will of course need people for [[Health Training | training]] people how to use our tools. And of course this and [[Category:Health |other health pages]] need [[wiki_cleanup#health | organizing and updating]]. We can always use volunteers for this.
There are other projects that are needed to implement any sort of Healthcare with the XO. There are ongoing efforts to help [[translate]] our content, as well as our software. [[Health Professional | Recruiting]] new healthcare workers, programmers and other tasks is always important and could use your [[Health Professional | help]]. Once our materials are finished, we will of course need people for training people how to use our tools. And of course this and other [[:Category:Health|Health Category]] pages need [[wiki_cleanup#health | organizing and updating]]. We can always use volunteers for this.


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== [[Health Organizations]] ==
==== Related non-OLPC projects ====


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The Health Projects of OLPC are still in their infancy. Some working relationships have been started with [[Health Organizations]]. The Hesperian Foundation[http://www.hesperian.org] is the first such group to [[Adapting_Hesperian_Books | contribute]] to OLPC Health. But other groups have expressed interest and talks are underway.
There are similar projects that we are collaborating with, including:

* [http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/ Debian-Med] - a "Custom Debian Distribution" with the aim to develop Debian into an operating system that is particularly well fit for the requirements for medical practice and research. The goal of Debian-Med is a complete system for all tasks in medical care which is built completely on free software.


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If you would like to add to our list of candidates, or help write proposals to these groups, please visit the [[Health Organizations]] page.


== Getting Involved ==
== Getting Involved ==


If you are interested in helping, you can help! We need people from all disciplines health-related or not, trained or not. If you don't find a place in any of the projects on this page you can always contact [[User:Arjs|Arjun]] or any of the people on the [[Health/People]] list.
If you are interested in our project you can help. We need people from all disciplines, health-related or not, professionally trained or not. If you don't find a place in any of these projects you can always contact [[User:Arjs|Arjun]] or [[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] to help find you a home.


'''If you think you fit any of the following categories, please visit the page and see how you can help:'''
'''If you think you fit any of the following categories, please visit the page and see how you can help:'''
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*[[Health Professional]]
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*[[Electrical_Engineer#Health | Electrical Engineer]]
*[[Electrical_Engineer#Health | Electrical Engineer]]


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== [[Health Organizations]] ==

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The Health Projects of OLPC are still in their infancy. Some working relationships have been started with [[Health Organizations]]. The Hesperian Foundation[http://www.hesperian.org] is the first such group to [[Adapting Hesperian Documents | contribute]] to OLPC Health. But other groups have expressed interest and talks are underway.

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The members of the [[/People | Health Project]] need to be diligent in searching for other organizations and making contact with them. If you would like to add to our list of candidates, or help write proposals to these groups, please visit the [[Health Organizations]] page.



== A note about OLPC and Health projects ==
== A note about OLPC and Health projects ==
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There has been a lot of interest from volunteers and organizations to develop applications and tools around the XO laptop that would help the recipients of the laptop and their families adopt healthy living practices. These initiatives have largely centered around development of software and content which serves to act as a source of reference for symptoms, diseases and preventive practices and healthy living. There have also been certain efforts in the development of tele-health peripheral modules.
There has been a lot of interest from volunteers and organizations to develop applications and tools around the XO laptop that would help the recipients of the laptop and their families adopt healthy living practices. These initiatives have largely centered around development of software and content which serves to act as a source of reference for symptoms, diseases and preventive practices and healthy living. There have also been certain efforts in the development of tele-health peripheral modules.


While OLPC is not currently in a position where it could fund these projects, it can endorse the efforts and partner in grant applications. Also, OLPC will do its best in providing communication channels (mailing lists, conference calls, project hosting etc.) that facilitate these projects. --[[User:Arjs|Arjs]] 11:27, 1 February 2008 (EST)
While OLPC is not currently in a position where it could fund these projects, it can endorse the efforts and partner in grant applications. Also, OLPC will do its best in providing communication channels (mailing lists, conference calls, project hosting etc.) that facilitate these projects.

== Group of advisors ==

''(alphabetic order)''

* [[User:Amitg|Amit Gognaa]]
* [http://mako.cc Benjamin Mako Hill]
* [[User:Carla|Carla Gomez Monroy]]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Frank Erica Frank]
* Gustavo Rojas Medina
* [http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/ichiro-kawachi/ Ichiro Kawachi]
* [http://www.jimhopper.com/ Jim Hopper]
* [[User:JHehner|Josh Hehner]]
* [[User:ScottSwanson|Scott Swanson]]
* [[User:Sj|SJ Klein]]
* [http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/venkata-sankaranarayanan/ S V Subramanian]
* [[User:Walter|Walter Bender]]

== Role of advisors ==

The advisors bring their experience, knowledge, expertise and professional networks to the OLPC-Health project. They would help to propel the project forward by giving perspectives, advising project groups and connecting volunteers/participants with organizations and people who might be able to contribute in a positive way. The interaction between advisors and the Health project volunteer/participants would be through monthly conference calls and advising requests on the wiki. There are no specific time commitments expected from the advisors, but we expect them to be committed to the cause and to participate as much as possible.

== Mechanism of advising through a wiki portal ==

Considering the time constraints of the advisors, different people emailing advisors separately wouldn't be easy on the advisors. So the current idea is the following -- there would be a wiki page where various groups would list themselves, their projects and describe their work. They would along there, put up things that they need help with and/or specific advisory requests -- for example "we need to talk to some paramedic regarding our plan"; or more specifically; I'd like to talk with person X regarding this plan.

The advisors , as and when their time allows, would periodically go through that page and look through the requests. They could choose to help one or more groups at different points of time by either writing down on the page itself the solution to a specific problem if they feel that it might be beneficial in general to more than one group or may be applicable for a later point of time too. The advisors could also choose to contact the group offline and discuss out the issues.

Such and related issues and corresponding progress would be discussed in monthly conference calls with advisors, although the frequency of conference calls amongst the group working on projects would be much higher.

== Conference Calls ==

Agenda for conference call on 10th Feb, 1pm EST


'''If you have not received an email regarding call in number and access code, please email arjun AT laptop dot org'''



# Anna Breshtyn -- [[Health_portal|Reaching out to educators to donate material]]; publicity drive; mechanism for integrating content that we get
# Walter Bender -- One Laptop per Child, the project today and the road ahead.
# Josh Hehner -- Vision for the Health initiative and parallelism with OLPC's educational focus
# Carla Gomez Monroy -- Health and Learning; perspectives from the implementations in Uruguay, Peru, Mongolia
# Amit Gognaa -- Perspectives from Khairat pilot project site near Mumbai, India
# Drew Einhorn -- World VistA on the XO
# SJ Klein -- Content focussed on prevention and sanitation; organizing people and projects
# Jim Hopper -- Thoughts from Web-based "brief assessment and motivational enhancement intervention" project, which Jim conceived and is directing for another non-profit (that serves men with histories of childhood sexual abuse)
# Erica Frank -- Describing her team's work on the development of a database of large number of links and the work required to take it forward
# Roy Peterson -- Development of an Ultrasound imaging system around the XO at Philips
# Scott Swanson -- EKG and other hardware peripheral development efforts at IMSA
# Mika Matsuzaki / Arjun Sarwal -- Wrap up, sustainability of the initiative




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Introduction

Welcome to the OLPC Health Project Page. To understand what we're doing and why we're here please read our Vision Statement.

We are an interdisciplinary group working on medical-related projects associated with the XO, including software, hardware, and content. Health projects can be a local grassroots undertaking, a student group project, a pilot implementation, a global community creation-sprint weekend - we cut across geographic, disciplinary, and institutional boundaries to help all health-related OLPC work move forward.

Recent news

  • The Health Jam in Seattle, WA took place April 18-20 at the University of Washington. See our Results and plans for the future.

Community

We're always interested in hearing from, talking with, and collaborating with others with similar interests. No particular experience is required—just a passion for OLPC and the health field, and a willingness to learn. We're all constantly learning from and teaching each other.

If you are interested in what we are doing, since March 2008, most of our discussions take place on the Health mailing list. The Library mailing list was used before and connects one to the broader community of content discussions. The best way to join the conversation is to join the lists and introduce yourself. Note that if you are not a list member, any messages you post to a list email address will have to be moderated by the list owner, which results in a delay in distribution.

Log in or create an account on the OLPC wiki, so you can edit pages and receive email notices of updates on pages you want to watch.

For chat via IRC you can find us at #olpc-health on freenode. (what is IRC?)

We occasionally hold phone meetings, you can find the agenda and minutes at Health meetings.

Health Projects

The Health projects take three major forms; Content, Software and Hardware along with some other organizational and implementation projects.

Health Content

We are working to create a comprehensive set of health information modules that are localized to each of the target countries. Over the next several months we will be working to find partners to donate content appropriate for the XO. There are also several existing copyright-free projects that we are translating and extending such as the Ankylosing Spondylitis blog. We will use that content as a starting point, localizing and extending it to meet the needs of the children in our target countries. For more information on this project, see Health content.

Bolivia Maternal Health Education Project

OLE Bolivia is partnering with them to develop a content/education delivery bundle for field test in March of 2009.

Animal Health

Basic animal health care and preventative measures; One, connect basic biology content more closely to the study of human health; and two, directly effect likelihood of animal borne diseases. Animal health and husbandry education could also have sanitation and economic benefits in rural areas. For more information see Animal Health.

Health Software

We are working software projects geared specifically towards Health on the XO, and are adapting existing applications as well. For example Measure is one example of an existing Activity being adapted for Health use. By plugging in sensors like an EKG to the XO's audio-in port, vital signs can be measured via software. Vital signs and medical records can also be stored in various medical record software systems. Various people are working on WorldVistA for this purpose.

Health Hardware

There are currently several groups working on Health sensors for the XO. Some are a simple as a temperature gauge that can be plugged into the audio-in port and used with Measure. But the eventual goal of Health Hardware is a $10USD USB device that can act as a full TeleHealth remote sensor package for pulse, temperature, blood oximeter, and many other simple sensors. Along with existing components such as the built in webcam on the XO this will allow doctors to diagnose patients from hundreds of miles away.

2013 11 27 at the http://eudevdays.eu/topics/science-and-innovation-development. Presentation on the use of a stetoscope, an echography sonar metering device, an e microscope all with an USB plug, plugged in into a laptop allowing remote eHealth consultations. Supported by EU FP7 Funds. Several devices come in kits with a foldable Photovoltaic. Think 2.500 € per kit. Brings the technology to about 25 €/consultation, which is readily refunded by the Peruvian health insurance program.

More: www.EHAS.org

2013 11 27 at the http://eudevdays.eu/topics/science-and-innovation-development. Presentation on the use of a stetoscope, an echography sonar metering device, an e microscope all with an USB plug, plugged in into a laptop allowing remote eHealth consultations. Supported by EU FP7 Funds. Several devices come in kits with a foldable Photovoltaic. Think 2.500 € per kit. Brings the technology to about 25 €/consultation, which is readily refunded by the Peruvian health insurance program.

More: www.EHAS.org

2013 11 27 at the http://eudevdays.eu/topics/science-and-innovation-development. Presentation on the use of a stetoscope, an echography sonar metering device, an e microscope all with an USB plug, plugged in into a laptop allowing remote eHealth consultations. Supported by EU FP7 Funds. Several devices come in kits with a foldable Photovoltaic. Think 2.500 € per kit. Brings the technology to about 25 €/consultation, which is readily refunded by the Peruvian health insurance program.

More: www.EHAS.org

2013 11 27 Sven AERTS OLPC Community talking about OLPC at the http://eudevdays.eu/topics/science-and-innovation-development. This resulted in identifying several top players also active in the EU OLPC Community landscape, firing up spirits, stressing teams to document their efforts on this wiki.laptop.org so others could find out about them, link up, built upon projects etc..

Health Misc

There are other projects that are needed to implement any sort of Healthcare with the XO. There are ongoing efforts to help translate our content, as well as our software. Recruiting new healthcare workers, programmers and other tasks is always important and could use your help. Once our materials are finished, we will of course need people for training people how to use our tools. And of course this and other Health Category pages need organizing and updating. We can always use volunteers for this.

Health Organizations

The Health Projects of OLPC are still in their infancy. Some working relationships have been started with Health Organizations. The Hesperian Foundation[1] is the first such group to contribute to OLPC Health. But other groups have expressed interest and talks are underway.

If you would like to add to our list of candidates, or help write proposals to these groups, please visit the Health Organizations page.

Getting Involved

If you are interested in our project you can help. We need people from all disciplines, health-related or not, professionally trained or not. If you don't find a place in any of these projects you can always contact Arjun or Seth to help find you a home.

If you think you fit any of the following categories, please visit the page and see how you can help:

This article is a stub. You can help the OLPC project by expanding it.

A note about OLPC and Health projects

OLPC is committed in its efforts to providing children in developing countries with a low cost, connected laptop. The laptop is a tool for learning, sharing and expression; however, the presence of a low-cost, rugged and connected device such as the XO laptop goes on to benefit the communities (kids and their families) in more ways than just one. One of these aspects is improving health and living practices of people.

There has been a lot of interest from volunteers and organizations to develop applications and tools around the XO laptop that would help the recipients of the laptop and their families adopt healthy living practices. These initiatives have largely centered around development of software and content which serves to act as a source of reference for symptoms, diseases and preventive practices and healthy living. There have also been certain efforts in the development of tele-health peripheral modules.

While OLPC is not currently in a position where it could fund these projects, it can endorse the efforts and partner in grant applications. Also, OLPC will do its best in providing communication channels (mailing lists, conference calls, project hosting etc.) that facilitate these projects.

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