TY - GEN
T1 - The role of health informatics in volunteer supported healthcare for underserved populations
AU - Mohan, Chilukuri K.
AU - Kulkarni, Dayaprasad
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper examines the role of health informatics in bridging the gaps and augmenting volunteer supported healthcare services to underserved populations in urban, rural, conflict, minimal resource and disaster settings worldwide through the experiences and vision of AarogyaSeva, a non-profit flexible micro-volunteering sustainable platform offering services in 7 countries. Due to the rapid increase in volunteers and patients, as well as an ever-increasing need for healthcare service delivery in underserved communities globally, we address the requirements for a robust health informatics system, addressing the challenges of availability of information to multiple healthcare providers, patient privacy, interfacing with multiple platforms, robustness, ease of use by people with limited technical skills, and extensibility.
AB - This paper examines the role of health informatics in bridging the gaps and augmenting volunteer supported healthcare services to underserved populations in urban, rural, conflict, minimal resource and disaster settings worldwide through the experiences and vision of AarogyaSeva, a non-profit flexible micro-volunteering sustainable platform offering services in 7 countries. Due to the rapid increase in volunteers and patients, as well as an ever-increasing need for healthcare service delivery in underserved communities globally, we address the requirements for a robust health informatics system, addressing the challenges of availability of information to multiple healthcare providers, patient privacy, interfacing with multiple platforms, robustness, ease of use by people with limited technical skills, and extensibility.
KW - Doctors For Seva
KW - Electronic Health Records
KW - Electronic Medical Records
KW - Health Informatics
KW - Healthcare Volunteers
KW - Micro-volunteering
KW - Public Health
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U2 - 10.1109/GHTC.2016.7857349
DO - 10.1109/GHTC.2016.7857349
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85015152120
T3 - GHTC 2016 - IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference: Technology for the Benefit of Humanity, Conference Proceedings
SP - 660
EP - 665
BT - GHTC 2016 - IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 6th Annual IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2016
Y2 - 13 October 2016 through 16 October 2016
ER -