- This project is located in the district of Magura in Bangladesh, where with SPIDER funding, a rural ICT center for education and training has been set up, and with the support of Grameen Phone, ten community information service centers have been developed.
- Grameen phone has now undertaken a project to set up about 500 Community Information Centers. GC together with KTH has established a rural ICT center at Nohata Girls’ college in Magura. With support from SPIDER, GC organized several seminars, workshops, and training programs at the rural ICT center to increase interest for science education among young students. Workshops for rural health care providers were also organized, where some diagnostic medical devices and telemedicine systems were presented. A pool of health professionals were trained to use PC, digital cameras, and basic medical devices for diagnostic purposes.
- A telemedicine compatible medical sensor system has been developed for application in rural areas. The device can detect pulse rate and ECG that can be displayed on a laptop and transferred to medical specialists as an attached file to email. The present system can be further developed and its functionality can be increased by adding multiple sensors to develop mobile telemedicine systems for prediction, detection, diagnosis, monitoring and prognosis of disease and for support and guidance of therapeutic interventions.
- A medical doctor is currently working to develop low cost telecommunication systems specially designed for rural primary healthcare personnel in developing countries. He will be working in Bangladesh July-August 2007 to test and evaluate a simple telemedicine system connecting rural doctors with medical specialists in Dhaka.
- Efforts are underway to deploy handheld, reliable, and affordable medical devices for monitoring and diagnostic purposes, and to follow up treatment. These devices can be connected to a laptop with access to expert system and internet connectivity for analysis by the health workers or for transmission of medical data to a remote team of expert physicians to establish dynamic linkages to existing knowledge, experience, processes, and action. Mobile telemedicine system proposed in this project would be demand and market driven, with space for innovation and creativity
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