Thursday morning, Wayne, Karen, and I went down to the clinic in Arequipa to discuss OpenMRS, FrontlineSMS, and MobilizeMRS with Lilia, the director of the clinic, and Maris, the assistant director of the clinic. There were a few goals to the meeting: understand the rudimentary electronic medical records system (EMR or MRS) in place now, [...]

Day one in Arequipa: asking as many questions as I possibly could about how Health Bridges International‘s partner clinic in Alta Cayma operates. This research will serve two purposes: extensive background for how MobilizeMRS might be useful, as well as assessing resources for intra-clinic collaboration.  A little background. The catchment area for the clinic in Alta Cayma [...]

Amy Sample Ward just alerted me that “Mobilizing Mobile Records in Resource Poor Settings“, a project Isaac and I pitched for the NetSquared/USAID Development 2.0 Challenge, has made it into the top 15!  Wow. So sweet. I’m not entirely sure what the next steps are, but this is a huge stride forward for bridging the [...]

The cool thing about grants is that they will often fund the neat idea you have. The not-so-cool thing is that they generally take a lot of work and luck to be accepted. My good friend Isaac Holeman and I entered an application on Friday to NetSquared/USAID’s Development 2.0 challenge. They’re looking to give $10,000 [...]