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From: mt@mit-amt (Michael Travers)
Newsgroups: sci.med,comp.ai
Subject: Re: computing support for 3rd world medicine
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Date: 28 Apr 89 01:14:03 GMT
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In article <778@aipna.ed.ac.uk> kk@uk.ac.ed.aipna (Kathleen King) writes:
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>I'm involved with a project attempting to provide computational support
>(probably in the form of a diagnostic decision aid) for rural health 
>workers in developing countries. Does anyone know of any related or
>similar work...

I worked on a very similar project about five years ago, at the Centre
Mondial Informatique in France.  The idea was to get a diagnostic
expert system into a ruggedized portable computer.  The project got as
far as an initial field test in Chad before politics killed it.
Unfortunately there were no publications that I know of.  The leader
of the project was Harold Goldberger, last seen at the MIT AI lab.  I
believe that Benoit Hap, a doctor affiliated with Medicine Sans
Frontieres who worked with the project, is now doing similar work.
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Michael Travers / MIT Media Lab / mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu