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

Daniel Myers dsmyers at MIT.EDU
Mon Mar 17 12:07:50 EDT 2008


I've been following the back-and-forth re: the call--so it's on for
4:30 today at the dimagi office? Can someone give me the address?

Thanks,
Daniel

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Andrés Monroy-Hernández
<andresmh at media.mit.edu> wrote:
> OK. I'll take care of the presentation and I'll call to that number at
>  4.30. So we are NOT meeting at 1.30 at Stata?
>
>  2008/3/16, Leo Anthony Celi <leoanthonyceli at yahoo.com>:
>
>
> > 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
>  > > > >  > >
>  > > > >  > >
>  > > > >  > >
>  > > > >  >
>  > > > >  >
>  > > > >  >
>  > > > >  > --
>  > > > >  > Daniel Myung
>  > > > >  > Senior Engineer
>  > > > >  > Dimagi, Inc  |  One Kendall Square  |  Bldg. 400, 4th Floor  |
>  > Cambridge,
>  > > > >  > MA 02139
>  > > > >  > work: (617) 621 8595  |  cell: (617) 645 3236
>  > > > >  > http://www.dimagi.com/
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>  > > > >
>  > > > > Andrés
>  > > > >
>  > > >
>  > > >
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>  > >
>  > >
>  > > --
>  > > Daniel Myung
>  > > Senior Engineer
>  > > Dimagi, Inc  |  One Kendall Square  |  Bldg. 400, 4th Floor  |  Cambridge,
>  > MA 02139
>  > > work: (617) 621 8595  |  cell: (617) 645 3236
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>  >
>  > --
>  > Daniel Myung
>  > Senior Engineer
>  > Dimagi, Inc  |  One Kendall Square  |  Bldg. 400, 4th Floor  |  Cambridge,
>  > MA 02139
>  > work: (617) 621 8595  |  cell: (617) 645 3236
>  > http://www.dimagi.com/
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