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4 Key Themes in Improving Patient Care with ICT in Malawi
Date: July 29th 2009
As I listened to Mike McKay, former country director of the Baobab Health Partnership, speak about his organization in the Technology Salon last week, I was struck by four key themes in their solution to improving patient care with ICT in Malawi:
- Start with Patient Data
- Keep Technology Easy to Use & Modify
- Always Build Local Capacity
- Project Poverty is an Advantage
Now neither Mike, nor Baobab's founder, Gerry Douglas, made all these points explicitly, nor are they obvious lessons to learn, but they are the takeaways I felt we could gain the most from. If you'd like to learn more about our discussion, please read and comment on the meeting synopsis at:
http://technologysalon.org/2009/07/four-key-themes-patient-care.html
If you have suggestions for topics and discussants to lead the next Technology Salon in September (we're taking August off), please let me know on wayan@wayan.com
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