• Please read the Botswana Case for discussion on Friday 03.02.12
• Final Project Teams Selected
• Course schedule updated. Please note lecture updates for 3/2, 3/9, 3/16, and 3/22.
• Videos of the classes will eventually be uploaded, but there will be a significant delay due to turnover and logistics.

Rural and resource-limited settings face significant hurdles including poor infrastructure (including the absence of hospitals and paved roads), disproportionate disease burden, malnutrition, and untreated chronic conditions. These obstacles are usually complicated by ineffective and inefficient treatment, magnified by the lack of adequately trained medical professionals.

Innovative mobile information services have the potential to revolutionize healthcare delivery in remote areas by improving patients’ access to medical specialists allowing effective diagnosis and intervention. However there are financial, structural, cultural, and technological hurdles one must overcome to successfully deliver mobile information services. This requires a coordinated multidisciplinary approach to foster an innovative ecosystem in order to transform healthcare delivery.

This course is a collaborative offering of Sana and Partners in Health and will be taught by guest speakers who are internationally recognized experts in the field and who, with their operational experiences, will outline the challenges they faced and describe how they were addressed. This offering is a continuation of our overall objective to study the development of innovations in information systems to accelerate improvements in health outcomes for developing countries. The main themes of this year’s course will be: (1) identifying key challenges and real problems, (2) design paradigms and approaches, and (3) evaluation and the challenges in measuring impact.

Learning Objectives:
• Understand health care gaps and inefficiencies in developing countries and resource-poor settings
• Learn about strategies for improving the quality of care using information systems in resource poor settings
• Project management and coordination skills on a multidisciplinary, cross-continental team

• Course Directors: Leo Celi, Hamish Fraser, Roger Mark, Kenneth Paik, Pete Szolovits
• Lecturers: TBD.  Consisting of industry and thought leaders in global health, public health, and informatics.
• Fridays 9:30am-11:00am, Lab 11:00am-12:00pm
• Location Lecture: 32-155; Lab: 66-154

Questions? Email: course (at) sanamobile.org MIT Course Info