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WONCA RURAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE (W.R.I.T.E.)

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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!


Pages designed by Joe Molnar
Contact: Joe Hovel
Last Updated: November 28, 2003