Dear Mladen
We are in Japan in a meeting called “In search for equity in medical devices accessibility”, with industry, funding agencies and regional advisers, and today one of the speakers (via elluminate) was An Lucia Ruggeiro, the one that sent this document about good health technologies in the equity listserve,
We will be discussing [...]
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Hi Mike,
Simon Levy, a student from Nottingham, is giving a short presentation on his
flat-pack incubator, and Tom Russell (an old student of yours I believe)
will be attending.
Regards,
Barry Lovern
Colleagues:
The issues discussed and opinions provided on-line are of extreme important
and can help sustain our determination to overcome barriers. After all, what
option do we have?
Professor Calil and Dr. Khammasi commented well about some of the problems
and the resources to counter them. As pointed out by Dr. Khammasi, planning
based on factual information are required for achieving [...]
I have gone back and looked at Jennifer’s
first email on this subject. We need to keep in mind the points
that she has made as we consider proposal and contacts with
CGI.
I think that what would be the best thing to come out of
participation in CGI would be getting the [...]
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By admin | March 29, 2010
Hi Jennefer
TheEthiopian Bio-medical & Laboratory Equipment Engineers Association (EBLEEA)is interested in helping disseminate medical technology management knowledge and to facilitate the involvement of clinical/bio-medical engineer or technician. I agree with CGI action areas. I & The Association will say Welcome !!!!
God Bless You
Mulugeta Mideksa, BME
Presedant of EBLEEA
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By admin | March 27, 2010
Dear Jennifer,
Thanks for disseminating those valuable
information. It is a fact as every one in the group has
agreed, that this noble initiative opens a window of
opportunities for Health Technology Management (HTM) and
Clinical Engineering. It is an opportunity to make known
the vital role that Clinical Engineering as a dicipline
plays in [...]
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By admin | March 26, 2010
Dear Jennifer and the Infratech group,
Thank you Jennifer for sharing the 2010 Action Areas of the
Clinton Global Initiative. I am excited to support CGI activities in HTM. Enhancing
Access to Modern Technology and it’s subtopic Disseminating Medical
Technology to the Developing World are of course relevant to the group and
quite timely related [...]
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By admin | March 26, 2010
Dear Jennifer,
on behalf of Biteb, an Italian NGO that has as a mission the
Health Technology Assessment and Disseminating Medical Technology to the
Developing World by refurbishing dismissed equipments from
European hospitals, I explain our interest in being involved in such initiative.
Please, count on us for eventual support.
Regards
Eng. Federico Cesari, PhD
BITeB
www.biteb.org
Mobile: [...]
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By admin | March 25, 2010
Andre:
Fantastic – Towards the Leadership of Biomedical Technology Professionals -
that’s exactly what will have lasting impact.
Good luck for productive program
Yadin
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By admin | March 25, 2010
Hi Jennifer
In your initial message you mentioned your concern about “spreading the word” and
many participants like Bjorn and Calil noticed some similarities with other
initiatives while some others like Andrei and Yadin put in
evidence–again–the need for capacity building in developing countries. Let me
chip in by recalling the need for “vectors” I mean [...]
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By admin | March 25, 2010
Dear Jennifer and Colleagues,
I suggest key people through WHO, PAHO, ACCE, IFMBE, etc. should be
there. These organizations have been working many years in this field and know the whole map of HTM. Another idea is help with real cases of each country to demonstrate real problems.
Not always the solution to a big problem [...]
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By admin | March 25, 2010
Hi Jennifer,
Thanks for sharing this proposal. You can count on our support
this initiative for the action area Enhancing Access to Modern Technology.
Here in Peru, we certainly have much to do,
understanding that “Modern” means not “sophisticated” but appropriate
technology, and a major point to
consider is the waste of [...]
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By admin | March 25, 2010
Thanks everyone. I will contact CGI and provide them with the names/organizations that have expressed interest. Hopefully, there will be an opportunity to shape the discussion and for at least for a few people
to participate.
To explain a little better, CGI is a 4-day conference consisting of large plenary sessions and smaller breakout sessions. [...]
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By admin | March 25, 2010
Dear Jeniffer
This is a fantastic initiative. I could say now, at
least some influential people, besides WHO and PAHO, is joining our
efforts.
The objectives of the “Enhancing Access to Modern Technology –
Action Area” hardly differs from what Adriana and all us are trying to
reach for a long time on [...]
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By admin | March 25, 2010
I and my colleagues at HPI would be very interested
in being involved in this, in whatever way we can help.
We have a couple of papers in at the IET conference
, so part of Andrew’s work is done
Rob
–
Rob Parsons
Information Systems Manager
Health Partners International
Waterside Centre
North St
Lewes
East
Sussex [...]
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