Global Health Council 37th Annual Conference: Dateline 2010: Global Health Goals

Presenters Discuss:
key design features of a medical records system adaptable to resource constrained environments and the need for patient medical records to provide quality care (South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Haiti, India, China, United States, Pakistan, and the Philippines); collaborative efforts to unify disparate open source tools into a low cost toolkit and the value of open source technologies to collaborative development (India, Vietnam, Tajikistan, South Africa, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, the Gambia and Sierra Leone); results from a study of CommCare and lessons learned about open source development (Tanzania); and the challenges faced in healthcare delivery and management in rural areas in the developing world and the need for a broader health delivery infrastructure (Kenya).