Kolkata Traffic

Kolkata Traffic
The past few days have been eventful for the mhealth kiosk team.  We are continuing to interview with experts in providing healthcare to the rural areas of India.  We have  been gaining valuable insight and well rounded view of the difficulties in the task at hand. There have been different views of the rural health care providers (RHCP), who are currently a unregulated provider to the rural areas. The many problematic aspects we are exploring include incentivisation using political agenda and monetary intake. There is a social and culture background that limits and keeps the people of the rural area apprehensive of outside people. Another aspect is the possibility of RHCP to misuse the technology and allow the RHCP to diagnose the patient.  Because of the lack skills from the RHCP it is not recommended to have RHCP diagnose.

Today the Kolkata nights worked on understanding and getting familiar with a current medical kiosk model. Our job is to determine, using some mini testing and experiments, if the new technology is ready to implement into the rural areas.  We were playing around with the current technology used in our current medical kiosk model, the "ReMeDi" from Neurosynaptic company. The ReMeDi provides 5 forms of diagnostic medical data: Blood pressure, SpO2, Temperature, Digital Stethoscope, and Electrocardiogram (ECG). When we reviewing with Neurosynaptic technical personnel on getting comprehensive training in using the equipment. Our final conclusion will determine if this technology will be acceptable to implement into the rural areas.

Sincerely yours,

Kolkata nights