Haiti Hospital Capacity Finder
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[edit] Overview
Summary: Getting to Ground Truth - Kabap MedNet Situational Awareness Tool
Since the earthquake, it has proven difficult to determine the location, operating status, and supply conditions of Haiti's health clinics. PAHO research has identified a list of over 900 facilities; however, data about damage to those facilities and their current medical supply shortages can only be aggregated and maintained by personnel on the ground. This activity will prove to be very time consuming in the current context, where transport is difficult and populations are migrating from Port au Prince.
This pproject would establish a central call center where the medical community in Haiti could call in supply needs by voice, send short text message updates, and potentially send emails--from any location with cellular or internet service. The center would be staffed by Haitian volunteers and would include medical professionals, including Haitian physicians.
This volunteer team would transcribe the real-time calls, voicemails, SMS messages, and emails into a structured (open) data format for describing hospital conditions, as set by PAHO standards. The teams would also transcribe requests for resupplies and notifications of shortages into a system of systems: a fusion of OpenStreetMap, Ushahidi, Sahana, and GeoCommons--all platforms which are already operational in the field, and which a team of developers fused together a week after the earthquake.
This system would make those data available within the response community, as coordinated by PAHO and (for the United States agencies) by USAID. Data would be private to those who require it for resupply and planning purposes; the only public data would be the locations of the hospitals and their operating status (as determined by PAHO).
More information on Sahana's tasks: http://trac.sahanapy.org/wiki/Haiti
Kapab.org Development site: http://haiti.opensgi.net/mednet/about/
Many programming tasks on Github repository (django, python) - http://github.com/ortelius/mednet/issues - Jeff Johnson (ortelius (at)gmail(dot)com) is available and awaiting email contact.
Sahana is a preexisting tool for disaster management. A branch has been created to work on the hospital status project.
[edit] Finding NGOs who deliver Hospital Services
We are just about to go live with the Kapab Medical Situational Awareness tool. The goal is to get all the hospitals operating in Haiti Geotagged and on a map so that everyone can see where the current hospitals are operating, and where there is still a need for medical assistance.
If a city is interested, we need to go through the list of NGOs that are operating in Haiti, and determine which of them is possibly setting up and running hospitals. We want to get a list of them with their contact information so that we can start contacting them to ask if they would put their information into the Kapab system. The Wiki page for the NGOs list is here:
The Spreadsheet is here:
Again, what we are looking for is a list of all NGOs doing medical services in Haiti and their contact information. This might be a relatively small task in terms of going through that spreadsheet, but there may be other NGOs we can identify doing this. Here's another data set:
[edit] Coordinator
Coordination is a collaborative team effort. For information on particular areas, go to:
IRC Freenode #sahana for developers also go to #sahana-py
advisor - provides humanitarian aid/emergency management domain advice
coordinator - advocacy, promotion and operational coordination of Sahana with third parties, related communities of interest such as standards groups (e.g. PFIF), Crisis Mappers etc
data entry - collection, entry and management of data entry tasks
development - code development, code management, bug patching etc
manager - internal management of the Sahana response
testing - testing, quality control, usability, UX etc
support - helping end users via email, IRC and other sources, producing documentation, editing wiki etc
sysadmin - management of servers, infrastructure, user approvals etc
Contributors
format: Firstname Surname (irc handle) - contributions
Surnames A-M
David Bitner (bitner) -
Milad Fatenejad (fateneja) - request management system
Fran Boon (flavour) -
Praneeth Bodduluri (lifeeth) -
Matt Brown (mattb) - data entry, development (spreadsheet import)
Dominic König (nursix) -
Tim McNamara (timClicks) -
Surnames N-Z
Nico Preston (nicopresto) - request management system
Mark Prutsalis (mprutsalis) - manager, advisor, coordinator
Chamindra de Silva (chamindra) -
Gavin Treadgold (gavin_t) - advisor, coordinator, testing, support, sysadmin
Connie White (connie) - support, sysadmin, tester
Dan Zubey (dzubey) - sysadmin, support
The Haiti team can be reached at haiti@sahanapy.org
[edit] Status
Volunteers are needed to help Sahana's Haiti Response efforts. Coders and non-coders welcome.
Things are changing quickly, so IRC is probably the most reliable place to check in on how you can help right now -- #sahana and #sahana-py (for coders) on irc.freenode.net
Current Needs:
- Only 3 left in the Geo-Locate the Hospitals Challenge - consider this done!!!
- Please visit the Volunteer TO DO Spreadsheet; this is where we are tracking tasks for volunteers to contribute to this effort.
- Translators please visit our translation portal for instructions on how to contribute to our French and Kreol translations needed to support our Haiti deployment
- Python coders please familiarize yourself with our developer guidelines and Haiti response
- Our main coordination and communication channel is the #sahana irc channel on irc.freenode.net. Visit chat page for instructions on how to join via webchat.
[edit] Resources
We need to manage hospital status information in a database, not on a bulletin board. These are impossible to maintain accurately or systematically. The previous postings here, while well-intentioned, do not provide the type of transactional system that is required to systematically conduct needs assessments of the hospital capacity in the country, to manage medical resource deployment, and to manage patient care. That is the purpose of having hospital data in a structured table in a database.
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A current resource for hospital status is located here: http://helphaitiheal.wordpress.com/hospital-status/ and here: http://bagaydwol.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/hospital-information-spread-the-word/
Redcrossmom, who runs the HelpHaitiHeal site listed above has access to some information and has offered to assist where possible: "There are field hospitals and those in real structures. We have a team of volunteers constantly searching public internet sources to locate where there are functioning hospitals in Haiti and the results of those can be found here http://helphaitiheal.wordpress.com/hospital-status/ . The GPS locations for these hospitals can be found here http://helphaitiheal.wordpress.com/hospital-status/by-location/ . The Haiti official list of hospitals is posted publicly online at http://haitimedical.com/union/about/background.asp and it is out of date and links are broken. It shows functioning hospitals where the hospital is not functioning currently.
Please let me know how else I may be of assistance." She can be reached at redcrossmom (at) hotmail.com
[edit] Interested Developers
[edit] Issues
[edit] Project Description
active project: Haiti Medical Situational Awareness Tool
- Brief Description: Members of the Haitian community have requested an application or tool where there is real time data regarding capacities of local hospitals. There are many hospitals outside of PaP who are under capacity and could be used.
- Status: ongoing
- Project Communications
- irc: Server: http://irc.freenode.net Channels: #sahana and #sahana-py (for coders)
- twitter hashtag: #cchhcf
- code or data repositories:
- Skills and Other Resources Needed: (1) French and Creole Translators (2) Python coders
- Objectives or Goals (bullet list): http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aq_3OYelM4ZUdHJyc0lUekZLUmEwa3ZSU2dJS3YyWWc&hl=en
- Project Lead: John Crowley (lead), Noel Dickover @NoelDickover
- Project Members: Katie Filbert @filbertkm OpenStreetMap integration, Sahana team @bitner, @nursix, @globaliist, @sahanafoss
- Customer:
- Location of Lead: Miami
- Cities Interested:
- Miami
- DC
- Seattle, WA
- Portland, OR
- Boulder, CO
- Toronto ON (canada)
- Assigned Project Manager(s) Across all Cities:
- Volunteers:
- Web Link: Haiti_Hospital_Capacity_Finder
