- The link to remote site hasn't been persistent
- He was committed to development of reports for Mateme sites and
- He has been busy with feature development and bug fixes for BART 9.2
Baobab Health Trust(organisation this developer works for), a Malawi-based non governmental organization, addresses the health crisis in Malawi by innovating appropriate technology that tackles developing country health care problems. The core of Baobab's approach is the use of easy-to-use touchscreen clinical workstations at the point of patient care. This system efficiently and accurately guides low-skilled health care workers through the diagnosis and treatment of patients according to national protocols. The system also captures timely and accurate data that is used by health care workers during patient visits to supplement decision making.
One of the system Baobab Health developed and supports is BART . This is a Ruby on Rails application running on a low cost touch screen work station which aides in the treatment and care of HIV / AIDS patients.
One other system is Mateme which developed using the same technology as BART but is used in rural health centres for outpatient registration and diagnoses.
Baobab Health uses low-cost information appliances and servers that are significantly more robust in harsh environments than traditional computers and these are powered by generic 12v batteries producing a combined voltage of 48 volts.
One challenge was monitoring of these batteries remotely to identify faulty batteries before power supply reaches critically low levels. Then comes in BASM - Baobab Server Monitoring system. This software was primary looking at addressing early warning mechanism for power supply but I will be looking froward to extending this to include other server critical resources.
