[Cidrz] Conference Call at Dimagi Office at 4:30 PM

Sun Mar 16 22:19:36 EDT 2008

Hi,
          My flight is at 6:30 PM so I was planning to get to the airport by 4:30 PM.  Even if I get to the airport by 4 PM, I'm probably queueing up for about an hour given it's an international flight.
          Go ahead without me.  My main questions are:
  1.  How important is real-time decision support functionality to them?  If they think it is key, who will provide the on-call service?  Doctors in Lusaka?  Doctors in the US?  How will this be possible given the time difference between Zambia and the US?
  2.  How do the doctors on-call want to be notified of the need for decision support?  The workflow needs to be granularized fully.  Will the doctor on-call just want to ring the nurse who sent the image?  A use case diagram will be helpful.  How do we capture and document the decision/information flow?  This is improtant for QA.  
  2.  What other functionalities do they want?  How do they want to carry on the weekly image reviews that they have now?  Are the doctors planning to continue travelling to each area of the country as the programme is rolled out?  Or do they envision a tele-medicine type image reviews?
  3.  How are they envisioning implementation?  I presume they'll pilot the real-time functionality in a small area?  I've presumed from my previous question that it will be a roll-out implementation across the country.  
  4.  What other QA processes should we put in place for the pilot apart from a record of the exchange and transfer of information? for the actual implementation?
  5.  We should also come up with both process and outcome metrics that we will track as we implement it from one area to another.  These are important if CIDRZ really wants to become established as the center of training in cervical cancer screening.  This is my area of expertise and would be happy to work with the CIDRZ folks.
  6.  Are they going to use the same nurses as we roll out from one area of the country to another?  If not, how many nurses need to be trained?  I presume the core group of nurses will be responsible for training the nurses in other areas of the country?  Have they given this a thought?
  7. What sort of operational and technical risks are involved in the project?  How can we minimize these risks?  Do we have contingency plans for those that are most likely to be encountered?
           Andres, I leave the oral presentation in your hands.  Daniel Myung, Andres will be presenting on Tuesday in case you haven't been informed yet.  Andres, please post a blog regarding the conference call and the comments/suggestions of the instructors and the rest of the class.  I'll make it up when I get back. 
  Cheers,
  Leo

Daniel Myung <dmyung at dimagi.com> wrote:
  hey leo,

can you call in from the terminal at 4:30pm?  figure since you'll be at the airport by 4, the cidrz guys a little tough to track down, so i want to stick to the singular 4:30pm call as we rescheduled earlier.

call in information:

(906) 481-2000
call in number 684882

dan

  On 3/13/08, Leo Anthony Celi <leoanthonyceli at yahoo.com> wrote:    My flight leaves at 6:30 PM.  I'm taking the T to the airport so I have to leave by 4 PM at the latest.  Perhaps we can have 2 separate conference calls, one general (for the doctors and nurses) and one technical?  Will the doctors and nurses be able to answer the more technical questions from Andres?  I can do the general conference call at 2 PM and Andres can conference call with the more technical people at 4:30 PM.  What do you guys think?  Would 10:30 PM (4:30 PM Boston time) be too late for the Lusaka folks?
  ~

Daniel Myung <dmyung at dimagi.com> wrote:
  i'll try my darndest to see if we can move it.  leo, when's your travel? is that 430pm time ok?

  On 3/13/08, Andrés Monroy-Hernández <andresmh at media.mit.edu> wrote:   oh actually, i just realized that there is going to be an extra
session on j2me programming for the class at the same time...  could
we move it to after 4.30pm?

2008/3/13, Andrés Monroy-Hernández <andresmh at media.mit.edu>:

> Confirmed.
>
>  2008/3/13, Leo Anthony Celi <leoanthonyceli at yahoo.com>:
>
> > Sounds good.
>  >
>  > Daniel Myung <dmyung at dimagi.com> wrote:
>  > i got off the phone with cidrz earlier.  given the schedule it looks
>  > impossible for them to come up to boston, but i arranged during our meeting
>  > monday to have a conference call w/ them.  so why not for this monday we
>  > meet at dimagi offices at One Kendall by flat top johnny's?  2pm same time.
>  >
>  > Dan
>  >
>  >
>  > On 3/13/08, Daniel Myung <dmyung at dimagi.com> wrote:
>  > > hey guys,
>  > >
>  > > i've setup a VM with hopefully all the LAMP you'll need.
>  > >
>  > > the specs are here:
>  > > http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/496
>  > >
>  > > root password is nokia
>  > >
>  > > the web url for just port 80 access is:
>  > > ict4dev.dimagi.com
>  > >
>  > > the ssh login is found at:
>  > > 38.97.79.152
>  > >
>  > > lemme know if you need me to run/load anything off of it.
>  > >
>  > > Dan
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  >
>  >
>  >
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