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From: reiter@babbage.harvard.edu (Ehud Reiter)
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Subject: Re: computing support for 3rd world medicine
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Date: 28 Apr 89 22:33:45 GMT
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In article <3753@mit-amt> mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael Travers) writes:
>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.

There was at least one publication:
	H. Goldberger and P. Schwenn, "Man-Machine Symbiosis in the
Assistance and Training of Rural Health Workers: A Proposal", in
J. Pages (ed), MEETING THE CHALLENGE: INFORMATICS AND MEDICAL EDUCATION,
Elselvier, 1983.

					Ehud Reiter
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