Monthly Archives: March 2014

eHealth, Governance, Research, The things I do for love....

If I’m researching e-governance applicability for www.doctoroncall.org

doconcall Does that make me an electronic health records system technologist? Or a medical records system researcher? I wonder.

Simply put, Doctor On Call is a blend between a electronic health records system and a e-Triage system. This is in fact the first of it’s kind in India that offers true niche benefits.

The service coverage is:

  1. Electronic medical records systems
  2. Emr systems (to help maintain the software medical records)
  3. Naturally free e-Triage would be included for all participants of the programme, which is one of the key benefits of ehr (and emr, but a little different for both).

Interestingly the organization does not offer electronic medical software, but instead focuses on ehealth services – what I would call a more ‘wholesome’ approach.

I will be posting updates on what happens with this over a period of time as my research unravels. Keep reading!

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More developments on Ocuara

I’ve been working on developing various fragments of Ocuara. All of this is of course in HTML5/Canvas; so it makes an interesting HTML5/WebGL capability preview as well.

shuttle

The Lunar Lander! Ok this is relatively simple, but took only about an hour to develop. Basically when you reach one of the later levels in Ocuara you will be able to purchase a Space Shuttle and ‘mine’ asteroids and suchlike. The idea of this preview is to demonstrate the ‘landing’ part of the deal. Naturally you’ll have one bit of ‘launch’-ing, some travel, and one bit of mining after you land (all 3 are pending :)) but you can see this and send me your feedback on chaitanyabd@gmail.com.

still

The second demo is a Distillery. I guess this is the first “Distillery” game out there – you’re given 500L of Mash (ground up pre-fermented raw material for producing alcohol). You simply need to click through the steps to ‘purify’ it into its final stage – clear alcohol. You need to adjust temperatures, maintain fluid levels and empty out the still tank once its nearly full – quite a click-heavy adventure. And good learning too!

Naturally all of this is purely for fun, and you must not do any of this at home. Just play the game and enjoy!! It’s all free.

Blatherings & Ramblings, The things I do for love....

Training the trainers at NAB

So GiveIndia has this interesting policy of one grass-root NGO visit every quarter, which I feel has been of great value to me personally. The National Association for the Blind (NAB) is where I’ve visited most frequently.

NAB has a training programme for their blind students, where the visually impaired from all over India come to learn basic mobility and some vocational trades (like candle making, paper bag making, etc). Now I’ve been making soap and lip balm – and other homemade stuff – for a long time now, and NAB was very happy to invite me to train their trainers. I’ve visited twice before and covered basic soap making (bathing soap, and a detergent).

I had another visit to NAB on the 27th of Feb 2014, and this time our focus was Lip Balm making.

When I got in around 4 PM there was a kitchen utilization workshop just getting over, and the kitchen was cleared immediately thereafter. That’s Jyotsna madam (their head of vocational kitchen/utility training) you see there asking the students to leave. Notice the confidence in the blind students’ mobility – most of us would have had our arms flailing to make sure we don’t collide into something 🙂

We started with a review of what was done last time, just to ensure the trainers had the concept down pat. We looked over the soap made last time (pic attached) and listed out possible alternate oils / perfumes to use. They’ll be training students for soapmaking in the coming few months so should be interesting to see.

Then I listed out the ingredients and guidelines for making the lip balm, which the trainers recorded in their journals – they keep these A4 sized books in which they write all such non-food recipes.

We assembled the ingredients, the two cubes of beeswax you see there are my contribution to this bundle. And then started the process (melt, mix, pour). 20 minutes of waiting and it’s done!!