Challenge1

Challenge 1
If a case is too complicated or cannot be addressed in the local clinics, the patient is referred to the hospital. This can involve substantial travel and accommodation costs which many patients are unable to afford. How can IT be leveraged to reduce the need for expensive travel and accommodation costs? What do we know about developments in telemedicine that can be adopted in this case? What technologies can reasonably be adopted in the context of this community?


 * IT leverage could be a webcam that would be connected to the hospital from the clinics. The clinic and the hospital could use Skype because its free.
 * Cellphones can be used to help the clinics because they will be able to talk to the doctor in the hospital when they get a rare case.
 * WiFi in these areas would be extremely helpful because it would allow them to run Skype and they would be able to look up information on rare cases
 * Expert systems- they can look up different diseases and diagnoses.
 * Cellphones can be used because they have no telephone poles and that is why WiFi would work better
 * Online classes can be used to train the health workers