Health
Introduction
Welcome to the OLPC Health Portal. We are an interdisciplinary group working on medical-related projects associated with the XO, including software, hardware, and content.
Vision
A link to the core guiding principles and the Vision behind the OLPC-Health project is here. Please read through it and help refine and finalize it.
Getting involved
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.
If you are interested in what we are doing, most of our discussions take place on the Library mailing list, and the best way to join the conversation is to join the list and introduce yourself. Also check out the resources below and add yourself to the /People list.
Updates
Join us on IRC at #olpc-health on freenode! If you want to know how to use IRC, go to irchelp and xchat. -- Mika 15:40, 30 January 2008 (EST)
Lots of updates to the Vision page. --JHehner 00:35, 30 January 2008 (EST)
Arjun and Mika are trying to reach everyone who is interested in this project. Please send us an e-mail if you don't hear from us this week. -- Mika 29 January 2008
Many people have been working hard to coordinate everyone who is interested in this project. In the next month, we will create a structure where people can learn about what others have been up to and effectively collaborate with one another. We'll have a conference call soon as well. Stay tuned! -- Mika 28 January 2008
Resources
If you're interested in Health-related projects, add your name (link to contact info if possible) to this list and note your interests so other people can contact you and find out what you're doing.
Coordination
- Erica Frank - health selection - working with her team at HSO to curate links from a variety of sites. Also working to get laptops [OLPC and other] into clinics and their staff. efrank | at | emory dot edu
- Anna - contributions from students and faculty at various colleges; postering; Hesperian contact
- Arjun Sarwal - health projects and peripherals; measure
- Josh Hehner - Director of Community Medicine Programs, Para el Mundo (PaM)
- Mika - helping the health content project
- Adesina Iluyemi- OLPC for Community Health Workers in Developing Countries (Africa)
Designated Advisers
- OLPC has designated Health advisers to help the Health Project.
Creation and Curation
- Beth Yakes
- Pascal Scheffers
- Maja Kuilman
- Adam Holt
- Prabhas Pokharel
- Gomes Aurelio
- Ed Montgomery - Health science teacher - (some French/Japanese ability) - feel free to contact for assistance with "OLPC" in the subject line*
- Maxim
- Chris Leonard, PhD - Developing ideas for animal health content.
- Nand Wadhwani
- Ian Daniher
- Rafael Ortiz
- Codyl?
- Dr. Ram Dhurjaty (indirectly)
- Steven Burns
- Zdenek Broz
- The XTerm Medical Dictionary Contributors
- A. S. Ivan, M.D.
- Christoph Champ, MSc
- Y.A. Hamed M.D.
- Madalina Marin, D.D.S
- Sam Vaknin
- Paola Lira, MSc Agriculture, Eng Food Science and Vilma Coronado, Lic. Nutriologist.
- from Nutri Pro Salud (NGO) - Peru
- Public Health, Alimentary Security, HIV/AIDS/Tuberculosis, Third Grade Desnutrition
- English, French, Spanish and Peruvian Native Languages (Quechua, Aymara)
- contact at nutriprosalud.info
- Mel Chua - USB peripheral development (electrical engineer)
- Seth Woodworth - HealthJam organizer, content formatting
- Chris Paton - Health Informatics Lecturer in New Zealand
- paulswartz - software developer and EMT
Chart
| Individual Name | Background | Project Name | Contact | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You name | Your background | The projects you're involved in, if you already have | Your contact information | anything else you want to say |
| Niels Olson | New Orleans med student graduating in 2009, learning python, US Navy officer 1998-2005, returning to active duty as a doc in 2009, BS Physics 1998 | prototyped a simple electronic stethoscope, testing an XO with real kids :-) | Niels | Is there a listserv for this group? Yes, http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/health Cjl 15:06, 10 May 2008 (EDT) got it, thanks! Niels 15:32, 10 May 2008 (EDT) |
| Jennifer DeBoer | Mechanical Engineering (SB), Foreign Language (SB), International Education Policy (current doctoral student) | Working on designing a health education intervention (HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases/hygiene) to put on the laptops and conduct a randomized field test of its effectiveness in Mozambique. | jennifer.j.deboer@vanderbilt.edu | |
| Mika | Mph student | Health Content, Coordination of the project | mmatsuza@hsph.harvard.edu | |
| Frederick Grose | Industrial Hygienist, Ergonomics Associate | Safe use of the XO and peripherals OLPC Rochester, NY |
FGrose | Consider ways to foster an environment that is secure, safe, & healthy for all in the broadest sense. |
Health subteams
The health projects involved in OLPC exist in three forms: hardware/software/content. Each builds on the other.
If you have particular talent in either of the three areas we would love your help and/or advice.
Health Content
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 target countries. For more information on our primary project, see the Health Database.
Links to useful sites and repositories: The health coordination team at Health Sciences Online have put together the following spreadsheets, categorized by url, description, audience and topic:
- File:Health-links-1.xls, File:Health-links-2.xls, File:Health-links-3.xls, File:Health-links-4.xls, File:Health-links-5.xls
Health Software
We welcome software projects geared towards Health on the XO. Measure is one example of an existing Activity being adapted for Health use - by plugging in sensors to the XO's analog port, vital signs can be monitored.
Some other ideas for projects:
- TeleHealth Parameterization Activity
- Pictograph based multiple-choice questions
- "click where it hurts..."
- Parameterize medical/health information into machine parseable xml
- APL for data acquisition and analysis
- WorldVistA for a wide range of medical applications (VistA is a GPLed version of the Veterans Administration hospital software)
Health Hardware
- TeleHealth Module
- USB Peripheral providing vital sign information to the XO
- Full telemedicine kit, including blood pressure, pulse, temperature, digital stethescope, digital video, and non-invasive blood chemistry.
- Cheap but effective digital microscope peripheral
Health Translations
Health projects are always looking for translators. Check out the projects above to find one you are interested in contributing to.
Health Project Implementation
Test-cases, proof-of-concept, trial projects, etc...
Health Training
Once several Health projects are mature, volunteers will be needed to test and deploy them in the field and train others in their use.
See Impending Ergonomic Disaster ? for some training that should be included for XO users and their teachers.
Help wanted
When you post a Help Wanted item, please post a contact person whom interested people can get in touch with, along with an expiration date so we can remove outdated postings.
Public health workers
We are looking for people who have public health experience in a target country (Libya, Rwanda, Nigeria, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Argentina, or Thailand) to please insert what help you are looking for here, along with contact information.
Linguists needed
We are looking for people who speak a language from a target country (Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Arabic, Kinyarwanda, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Thai). please insert what help you are looking for here, along with contact information.
Electrical engineering mentor
The IMSA chapter is looking for electrical engineers, preferably in the Chicago area or willing to mentor long-distance, to help review sensor-input peripheral designs by students. Contact Scott Swanson. Expires May 1, 2008.
Open tasks
- Create a health OBX for interested participants to mark themselves with (should add people to a "Health People" category, or similar
- Clean up the Health Reference Library page.
- Find Health-related projects elsewhere on this wiki and link them to this page.
- Find Health Organizations that might be interested in getting involved or using the XO-Health projects for the wiki.
- Write documentation and proposal information for Health Organizations.