Rio de Janeiro - Santa Marta Naureen S. Kabir, Senior Program Manager naureen.kabir@newcitiesfoundation.

org March 6, 2012

Task Force Ecosystem

Rapidly growing needs/structurally limited resources

Growing needs stemming from a three-fold transition Demographic: Rio is aging at a fast pace Lifestyle: more fat, sugar, smoking and sedentary lives Epidemiologic: cumulation of tropical epidemics and growing chronic diseases Limited Resources in particular in underprivileged areas Lack of specialized doctors Lack of urban space and infrastructures Public finances limited

The equation we need to solve

In this context, how to:

Extend health coverage to underprivileged communities In a cost effective, sustainable manner for public finances

While increasing the quality of the service for the patients

Thanks to a GE e-health backpack connected with Orange and Ciscos technology

We will empower a primary healthcare clinic in the favela of Santa Marta

In order to bring healthcare closer to patients with special needs.

Patients with chronic diseases

Patients socially isolated

Integrating the information in a digital, modernized database

Tablet digital

General data about the patient

Medical data from the backpack

Family Clinic

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Connecting the Clinic to a Public Hospital

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Upgrading Clinic personnel with e-training sessions

3.

Designing healthcare access points in the community

The need to build trust among partners from very different backgrounds

Knowledge gap: the case for e-health public policies is not documented enough
E-health and the human factor: taking into account local contexts and psychological sensitivities

Partner with the multilateral community who can:

Disseminate knowledge widely Use tools such as the Urbanization Knowledge Platform or ICT Knowledge Platform to adapt learnings to local contexts

Provide resources (funding, technical assistance, capacity building) to scale the project to cities worldwide