Emailing Power to Knowledge

"Dawn breaks and one of our technology heroes has just finished a twelve hour shift in the labour ward of a clinic in one of Malawi's poorest townships. Her superhero cape is a starched-white nurse uniform.
A red African sun begins to rise over tin roofs, women waiting for their expecting sisters and daughters stir large pots of maize porridge in the clinic waiting room; newly born babies open their squinting eyes on the world around them and the Sister in Charge sits down to send an email to Scotland and check her SQL Server mapping database......"
Health is global. Health is local. And health is individual. How can nurses and doctors in two different countries and cultures (Malawi and Scotland) support each other to give optimum healthcare to their local patients, while learning of global advancements in medicines and treatment?
Working from small, crowded storage rooms, the technology superheroes overcome tropical thunderstorms, power cuts, outbreaks of Malaria and medical emergencies to use Microsoft server and developer tool technologies to become 'virtual colleagues'. Emailing power to knowledge across regional, national and international boundaries delivers life-saving results.
Using Microsoft SGL Server technology to map confidential patient data, clinicians in both countries can now track the prevalence of sero-positive HIV transmission between mother and child, infant mortality and TB prevention across large population demographics and provide Outreach treatment in the villages and townships of Malawi and at community centres in Scotland, according to need.
Together, we walk, we talk, and we click.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Scotland
• Malawi
• technology
• heroes
• computers
• Microsoft