How It Will Get Done
- Increasing response-efficiency: creating appropriate
response to critical need - a shorter, more efficient system than current
multi-layered or redundant public health system. Extending the reach of
public health, providing health via a corps of community health workers
who are the limbs of remote clinics, especially for the critical needs
of pregnancy: both maternal and neo-natal mortality and morbidity.
- Increasing provider capacity: creating ability and
culturally appropriate response to rural health provider training needs
with
- Regional residential training
- Online training and certification and RTVC through satellite-based solar powered networks,
- Medical support: providing distance consultation for rural providers
in cooperation with such institutions as Beijing University School of
Medicine, and Tshinghua University School of medicine through the use
of IT and digital radiological imaging.
- Regional health centers. Addressing regional health
problems with regional health solutions, via regional health centers.
Amara aims to provide health care at critical geographical and cultural
locations, serving patients across county, prefecture and provincial borders.
- Virtual community. Creating a virtual community of rural
providers with an intra-net and regional conferences run by the providers
themselves, to share resources and discuss common problems, allowing a
fluid transfer of virtual knowledge from rural provider to rural provider.
- Epidemiology. Tracking the origin, growth and spread
of disease in the most poor and remote regions, providing electronic infrastructure
to collect and analyze these data in an effort to quickly identify the
scope and magnitude of epidemiologic concerns.
- Inventory Control. Allowing an efficient method of
virtual central supply - stocking, ordering and delivering medicine and
medical supplies to the most remote regions via electronic patient records.
Tracking the use of medicine, ensuring the authenticity and quality of
the medicine ordered.
- Pro-active health care. Shifting the focus
of emergent "treat and release" care to early identification
and prevention of diseases of poverty, malnutrition, and common childhood
diseases; evaluating and treating region-specific diseases, i.e.
elevation associated anemia, high blood pressure, parasites, etc.
