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2007年3月5日

作者:
Thomas Crampton, New York Times

Wireless Technology Speeds Health Services in Rwanda

[In Rwanda] communication within the national health care system can be slow enough to present a threat to health.…Dr. Innocent Nyaruhirira…minister for H.I.V./AIDS. [said] “…it often takes one month to receive a message from the field about a disease outbreak or drug shortage.” The travel time cripples drug supply management, prevents live tracking of disease outbreaks, undermines monitoring of health programs and delays delivery of laboratory test results to patients… Voxiva… has built a system that lets health workers send reports by cellphone directly from the field…Voxiva’s system is also being used in Indonesia…and in India…In Rwanda, the system…now connects 75 percent of the country’s 340 clinics, covering a total of 32,000 patients…[also refers to MTN]