In many developing nations, healthcare is typically provided through many rural district health offices, which may or may not have data connectivity to other health centers in the area. The capability of exchanging data between central health facilities and remote field offices is critically important to providing quality patient care via:

* Interaction among healthcare professional to solve day-to-day problems
* Retrieval and transfer of patient medical records
* Remote treatment/diagnosis
* Emergency and outbreak warning
* Professional training and resource development

The IEEE Data Connectivity group follows an ICT4D approach to provide data connectivity to such remote areas. We focus on people and utilize appropriate technology to solve health and social problems.

Mission

n mThe HTC is an innovative, multidisciplinary and collaborative endeavor that will develop and implement health solutions utilizing technology as a tool. Our mission is to create solutions that are sustainable, scalable and adaptable to multiple environments so they can be implemented locally within the environmental, cultural, structural, political, and socio-economic conditions where they will be deployed. At the same time, we seek to support the work of United Nations and other humanitarian assistance groups worldwide in their efforts to reach the Millenium Development Goals.

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