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[Leo Anthony Celi]

Below is what I wrote for the potential use of the application outside cervical cancer screening.  I'm done with this for now.  My next task is preparing the powerpoint for the oral presentation on May 8th.
   
  Potential Use of this Application outside Cervical Cancer Screening
This application of transmitting images and clinical data for both real-time decision support and archiving has tremendous potential to transform health care delivery in resource-poor settings.  Current applications whereby images are transmitted from cell phone to cell phone for real-time decision support or from cell phone to a computer via email for store-and-forward systems lack the functionality that would facilitate follow-up, outcomes metric tracking and quality assurance/quality improvement.  Archiving and information management in a server allows remote longitudinal care in order to leverage specialists that are usually only available in the urban centers.  For example, patients from rural areas who had surgery may no longer need to go back repeatedly to the urban hospital for post-operative follow-up evaluation of surgical wound healing.  Because the images are stored, regular peer review of cases are facilitated for QA/QI purposes.  Process and metrics tracking
 can also be automated within the application.
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