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A Cry for HELP
This is the story of a 1 year 2 month old boy born to an 18 year old mother on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. This report/plea for assistance came in recently from a Philippine Physician at one of the remote rural clinics HELP visited during "Needs Assessment" operations recently.
Learn how you can help at the end of this story.
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HIgh Tech Disaster Response
HELP's much anticipated mobile telemedicine clinic known as "Doc-in-a-Box" was unveiled during Operations "Golden Phoenix" and "Freedom's Ring" recently.
The joint military and civilian disaster exercises were conducted in California and Arizona. The exercise simulated a massive 8.0 earthquake in the Los Angeles basin area. If such an earthquake were to hit massive numbers of people would be expected to evacuate into Arizona.
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Thanks to you and the assistance this NetSquared competition offers, our efforts to meet the medical needs of people (including specifically the ones pictured here) will be greatly increased.
HELP International Telemedicine Humanitarian Emergency Mobile Medical Clinic Network
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
A telemedicine-based on-line community of physicians, financial donors and emergency personnel bringing advanced medical assistance to disaster zones and areas of chronic humanitarian need around the world.
Technology Vision:
One of the big challenges is making sure everyone (hospital networks, physicians and the public) can communicate on this platform.
Both ISDN and IP teleconference protocols need to be enabled so Polycom and Tandberg (two biggest teleconference medical platforms) can be used. The problem is those two companies don't play nice together. Thus we need another system that can talk to both. I met with Global Media (based in Scottsdale AZ) at the ATA conference earlier this week. They have a platform that could work. I'm not sure if they are just re-selling or if this is OEM they placed their logo on.
We need network building, blogs, etc. What ever works best is fine with me.
We need to keep in mind bandwidth requirements on teleconferencing as many times this will be done from remote locations with limited abilities.
We need satellite BGAN units (higher speed) and various broadband and wifi capabilities for use in various countries. While we have used the INMARSAT network, ideas of how to lower high sat costs would be great.
