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SUMMARY:e-Health for Development: using technology to improve healthcare f
 or the world's poor - Dr Michael Barrett (Judge Business School)\, Profess
 or Geoff Walsham (Judge Business School)\, Professor Ian Leslie (Universit
 y of Cambridge\, Computer Laboratory) and Dr Peter Gough (Khandel Light).
DTSTART:20110119T183000Z
DTEND:20110119T203000Z
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CONTACT:Centre For Global Equality
DESCRIPTION:Panel discussion:\n\n*_What are the biggest healthcare problem
 s facing developing countries?_*\n*_How can we use Information and Communi
 cation Technologies (ICTs) to contribute to solving these problems?_*\n*_H
 ow can ICTs improve healthcare in ways that are impactful\, sustainable an
 d scalable?_*\n \nWith experts on ICT for Health\, including Professor Geo
 ff Walsham (University of Cambridge\, Judge Business School)\, Professor I
 an Leslie (University of Cambridge\, Computer Laboratory) and Dr Peter Gou
 gh (Khandel Light).\n  \n_*e-Health* refers to the use of electronic proce
 sses and communication in healthcare. This includes health information and
  knowledge management systems\, telemedicine\, m-health (mobile health) an
 d more. The growth of mobile and other forms of information technology off
 ers significant potential\, but also major challenges\, for improving heal
 thcare for the world’s poor\, who often bear the burden of high incidenc
 e of disease and the lack of healthcare resources._\n\n*To RSVP\, please v
 isit: http://ehealth4development.eventbrite.com/*\n\nThis event is co-host
 ed by the "Humanitarian Centre":http://www.humanitariancentre.org and the 
 Judge Business School's "Centre for Health Leadership & Enterprise":http:/
 /www.health.jbs.cam.ac.uk/ . It is part of a themed year on ICT4D (ICT for
  Development) run by the Humanitarian Centre in partnership with ARM.
LOCATION:Room LT3\, Judge Business School\, Trumpington Street\, Cambridge
 \, CB2 1AG
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