Random images Challenge 2008
Finalists 2008
Health
Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical practitioners through the use of ICT
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Brief description
The website provides a one-stop solution for the CME needs of doctors, both in Hong Kong and overseas. CME is a life-time commitment for doctors, but the major hurdle is the conflict of time between medical seminars and patient care.
CME resources on the Internet, both local and overseas, can be located with ease using a search engine. An archive of over 200 local medical lectures (voice-over slides) of different specialties is available for doctors to study at their own time, pace, and area of interest. For overseas CME resources, we have built a library of CME web links (annotated) on the Internet. All websites in the library are categorized according to the specialty (e.g. urology, dermatology) as well as the nature of the website (e.g. journals, textbooks, practice guidelines).
There are also online quizzes in Dermatology, Radiology, ECG and self-study articles for self assessment. Accreditations will also be made for correct answers.
Design and Development of an Appropriate Hospital Information System
- Country
- Yemen
- Brief description
- Public hospitals in Yemen need better information systems to monitor and supervise hospital performance. An "electronic" tally sheet was developed by EPOS Health Consultants to register daily in- and outpatient data, utilisation of laboratory and x-ray departments, and received user fees. The spreadsheet allows monthly stastitics on hospital performance for monitoring and supervision. This now-cost Excell based program is used throughout Yemen and proofed to be sustainable after initial training of local hospital statisticians.
Digital Hospital – SingHealth’s Journey towards Digitization of Healthcare
- Country
- Singapore
- Brief description
- The Digital Hospital strives to integrate emerging technologies to not only transform the way clinical information is captured and accessed, improve staff productivity and operational efficiency but also to improve the quality of patient care and safety from preventive care to hospital care to step down care to homecare, providing quality healthcare and service delivery to meet our nation’s aspirations.
e-Care Elderly Home Management System
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Brief description
e-Care Elderly Home Management System is a web-based system runs under Application Service Provider (ASP) model serving elderly centers in Hong Kong. e-Care initially designed to facilitate the routine operations, data centralization, management, statistic and analysis of the nine Caritas elderly centers in early 2005. CITAC found that the functionalities of e-Care fulfill over 85% system requirements of the management system in local elderly centers and found that there was no such web-based system available in Hong Kong. Therefore, with further development on user’s flexibility (user’s parameters), security measure (SSL, VPN), privilege control and data access authorization control, the second version of e-Care was launched to the public for subscription on 1st June 2006. By 31 November 2007, there are totally 35 elderly centers in Hong Kong and one integrated elderly center in Shen Zhen (China) subscribed to e-Care services. e-Care is opened for comments and opinions. CITAC keeps collecting the needs and requirements from the end users, elderly consultants and government departments. Continue development is one of the aims of e-Care development team. Apart from the above achievements, e-Care has been awarded a merit from both the Hong Kong ICT and Asia Pacific ICT Awards in 2006.
Family-to-Family - a not-for-profit grassroots hunger relief program
- Country
- United States
- Brief description
- Family-to-Family is an all-volunteer non-profit hunger relief program that links American families with "more" to rural American families with profoudly less, one-to-one, with each donating family shopping for and sending a box of non-perishable foods and other basic life necessities once a month to "their" sponsored family, along with a letter... creating food security, community, hope and connection across hundreds or even thousands of miles.
Freedom HIV/AIDS - Mobile Phone Games and Health Management Applications to combat HIV/AIDS
- Country
- India
- Brief description
Freedom HIV/AIDS is the largest social initiative using mobile phone games and mobile health management solutions & tools to fight HIV/AIDS, reaching to over 42 million users in Asia and Africa.
IRIS Project
- Country
- Colombia
- Brief description
- The IRIS Project is a system that allows a visually impaired person to perceive all kind of images, forms, figures and colors using their hands, like no other system in the world does. In this moment main goal of the project is to enable visually impaired children to access visual resources with the same or better quality that the ones given in a regular classroom. This is accomplished by the use of database of categorized pedagogical images (geometry, biology, history, etc), that the child can perceive using the IRIS device.
mindyourmind.ca (a program of Family Service Thames Valley)
- Country
- Canada
- Brief description
- mindyourmind.ca provides information, resources and interactive coping tools for youth at risk for stress, mental health disorders, suicide and self-harming behaviours; we eliminate the stigma associated with mental health and any barriers to youth seeking help.
Mobile hospital -Taking health and education where people leaves.
- Country
- Argentina
- Brief description
- The mobile hospital proyect aims to take health and health education where people lives eliminating the social, economic and cultural barriers that prevent people from having access to a good medical care system, promoting a major equity within the society by integrating the poorest people to the health system which would lead to a healthier society in the long term.
Network of Care Web Sites
- Country
- United States
- Brief description
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Network of Care (NOC) is a community-based suit of webs sites with comprehensive, online information and advocacy for individuals, families, caregivers, and agencies involved in helping children, youth, seniors, disabilities, and mental health, aging, domestic violence, veterans and public health by providing a one-stop web portal for information, support and communication.
OpenMED@NIC
- Country
- India
- Brief description
- OpenMED is an open access archive for Medical and Allied Sciences providing self-archiving facility to the medical researchers.
Project Zumbido
- Country
- Mexico
- Brief description
- Pilot project Zumbido created support groups for those living in urban and rural areas of Mexico, using a mobile phone technology that enabled a simulatneous communication between all ten group members in each of the four support groups.
Radio La Colifata
- Country
- Argentina
- Brief description
- Radio “La Colifata” is a pioneer project all over the world. We use media communication to relate the outside community to psychotic patients, who live recruited in psychiatric hospitals in our country. This project is intended to provide “common” people with a new perspective about mental insanity. Our society is used to label these human beings as "crazy", submitting their lives to a huge isolation, when the fact of communication itself is what actually rehabilitates them. The first link with the outside was created in 1991 by the use of radio technology becoming the first radio station in the world, to broadcast from a neuropsychiatric hospital. Nowadays, with the incorporation of TV and Web technologies, the Internet represents the main platform which articulates both fields (the exterior community and the inside hospital) in a really healthy bond.
RAFT: a telemedicine network for Africa to support healthcare professionals where they are most needed
- Country
- Mali
- Brief description
- A telemedicine network, supported by 30+ coordinators, active in fourteen African countries, focussing on the distance continuing education and remote support of healthcare professionals on their worksites.
Reach Out Central
- Country
- Australia
- Brief description
- Reach Out Central (ROC) combines evidence-based mental health content with engaging design and online gaming technology to create an interactive environment that enables young people to identify and work through issues such as depression, anger and anxiety, increasing their ability to cope with mental health difficulties.
SmartUs - Games in Motion
- Country
- Finland
- Brief description
The SmartUs product range is a technology enriched environment of play, physical activity and learning designed for children and families. It adapts itself through activity and ideas provided by the users, and at its best it is an exertaining environment built by the whole user community. See the video made in the SmartUs playground in the Netherlands.
The EpiSurveyor Project
- Country
- United States
- Brief description
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The EpiSurveyor project brings high quality electronic data collection and analysis within reach of developing country public health workers by creating free, easy-to-use open-source software for data collection and analysis on mobile devices*, thus extending the benefits of modern information technology to health programs and locations that could never afford it before, and reducing reliance on expensive foreign consultants.
*Mobile devices include cell phones and pocket computers/PDAs (personal digital assistants).
Web4Health web site
- Country
- Sweden
- Brief description
- Web4Health contains answers to more than a thousand common questions in the area of psychology and mental health. Most of the information is available in multiple languages. An area where experts answer individual questions is also available, as well as forums. An intelligent natural-language question-answering system finds the most relevant answers for each user query. The web site has more than 600 000 visitors/month downloading approximately two million pages/month. The web site is run on a very small budget based on voluntary work of experts and translators.
WorldVistA
- Country
- United States
- Brief description
- WorldVistA EHR is a proven, opensource comprehensive, integrated electronic health record and health information system which can be used to automate any size health delivery system to improve health outcomes and reduce cost.
