2012-01-30 Weekly Meeting

Raxa-JSS Weekly Meeting held on 30th Jan, 2012
Listen to the audio recording for the meeting:

Agenda and Notes

Attendees:

• Susan Wolfe (Australia)
• Gaurav Chugh (Delhi, India)
• Nathan Leiby (Seattle, WA, USA)
• Daniel Pepper (Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India)
• Surajit Nundy (Delhi, India)
• Saptarshi (Mumbai, India)

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Raxa-JSS Weekly Meeting
Jan 29 / 30, 2012 
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Status update from JSS on-site:

• Visit from government officials: Chief Secretary of Chhattisgarh, four District Collectors and others
• Very nice brochure for the Raxa JSS EMR project in the works by Ruta
• Recruitment posters for additional doctors to come to JSS are now printed up (they'll be posted in hospitals in Delhi, Bombay and a few other cities in the coming weeks).
• We have almost 100 followers on twitter, and we've only been up and running a short while; please follow us! @raxa_jss_emr
• Some of our pics on twitter: https://twitter.com/?iid=am-4065281413273883587627835&nid=22+dm_reply&screen_name=wordymusic&uid=16169106&utm_content=action#!/raxa_jss_emr/media/grid|https://twitter.com/?iid=am-4065281413273883587627835&nid=22+dm_reply&screen_name=wordymusic&uid=16169106&utm_content=action#!/raxa_jss_emr/media/grid

Susan Wolfe (UI/UX coordinator) on call, reviewed the UI/UX meeting this past Friday

• based in Australia
• back and forth to San Francisco (where she's from)
• bring together vocabulary for design (common elements, general design)

Module updates

• Bhushan is back in action on STM
• Lab: We didn't have a lab meeting; but did make some good progress and we'll likely have another one this coming Fri/Sat. Roger is in Ghana next two weeks.
• Screener / Triage Module: update from Bhushan
• Out Patient Department meeting hasn't happened yet but is tentatively scheduled for next Saturday afternoon, India time.
• Testing using Jasmine for JavaScript (behavior driven development paradigm)
  • testing specs, rather than normal unit testing

Jen Mankoff is working on how illiterate people would interact with our system

• Human Computer Interaction specialist from Carnegie Mellon University
• Hiring someone with a background in design/social sciences (anthropologist, connections to computer world)
• Go to villages, talk to villagers

Carnegie Mellon University collaboration:

• a few students investigating our architecture
• particularly security/privacy
• also scalability, performance

Probably part of 'patient facing' module

• What patients see of their own health info, how they can manage it
• but majority of JSS patients dont have a computer and/or are illiterate
• voice is a promising direction to go
• upcoming call with "indivo"... a patient facing module at Boston Childrens' Hospital. interactive patient technology