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WideRay founder and CEO, Saul Kato.
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Satellife’s system will be based on 3,000 to 5,000 Palm handhelds given to doctors and health-care workers in the field. The handhelds will be used for routine health administration, ordering and tracking medical supplies, delivering new treatment guidelines and, of course, communication.
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In the field, the handhelds will connect to inexpensive, battery-powered Linux servers, like this one at Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco, set up across the country. Built by WideRay, a San Francisco startup, the Jack servers have built-in GPRS radios, which afford them an always-on connection to Uganda’s near-ubiquitous cell-phone network.
credit Holly Ladd
Though Uganda has a widespread and functioning health-care system, it has none of the administrative infrastructure taken for granted in developed countries. A wireless computing network could be a first step in alleviating that situation.
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Boston nonprofit Satellife has ambitious plans to build a nationwide, wireless computing network for Uganda’s impoverished health-care system.
