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WONCA RURAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE (WRITE)
Library Links to some of the more important documents on rural health, in particular, those pertaining to information technology: IT Policy Document for Rural Health Policy Document on Training for Rural Practice WRITE Position Paper Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) Rural Medicine on Top of the World - Roger Strasser WRITE Presentation Package - self extracting file (3.3MB) Surfing the Net with a Doorstop! - David Topps
Other Rural IT Sites: Project for Rural Health Communication and Information Technology (PRHCIT) MedWeb Internet resources School of Rural Public Health Informatics, Texas
Other Medical Informatics organisations: International Medical Informatics Association Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) Canada´s Health Informatics Association (COACH) American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Centre for Medical Informatics, Monash University (CMI) European Federation for Medical Informatics
Health Software suitable for Rural Health Services - open source or freeware: Open Source Software in Health Care The Littlefish Health Project Indian Health Service Resource and Patient Management Systems Access to Information using limited computing resources - Background paper, Joe Hovel US Internet Council: "State of the Internet Report" - some statistics to put the world's Internet developments into perspective.
Lecture material and lectures on the net: Supercourse - Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health, a very useful set of more than 860(!) on-line lectures!
