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Chapter 9
Rural E-Health
Infrastructure Development
Subrat Sahu
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India
Ali Zalzala
Hikma Group Ltd, UAE
Suresh Vaghasiya
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India
Stanley Chia
Vodafone Group R&D, USA
Ali Karimi
Trans Technology Group, USA
Laura Zalzala
Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania
ABSTRACT
This chapter describes international humanitarian efforts for the deployment of technology in healthcare
centers in developing countries. The IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge (http://www.ieeehtc.
org) develops and implements technological solutions for the provision of reliable electricity, data con-
nectivity of rural district health offices, and identifying individuals and linking them to their medical
records. The study reports the proceedings for providing a comprehensive system that will define public
health in villages, allowing for trauma and emergency as well as disease response, control and studies,
clinical healthcare, disease surveillance and prevention, and health vaccination. The following sections
describe the implementation of a healthcare records system in rural areas of India's Gujarat State. The
system reduces the risk of misidentification of patients and allows for accessing the records of patients
in a more timely process. The electronic medical records improve clinical and diagnostic services and
provide alerts on disease trends.
1. INTRODUCTION
quently limit the flexibility of people commuting
from distant villages to central medical facilities.
It is also a fact that developing countries have a
large base of rural population. Some estimated
that rural agriculture employs 75% of the popu-
lation in development countries (Anriques and
Stloukal, 2008).
Community based healthcare is becoming increas-
ingly important for the wellbeing of inhabitants
among many emerging economies. This is partially
because road infrastructure are usually less well
developed in those locations which would fre-
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