Dear Medical Mission Exchange Participants, Please contribute to Haiti's recovery by participating in a comprehensive registry of all health facilities in Haiti. This registry will provide real time information on current medical care capacity. Please read and February 18, 2010 Dear All, The following email and its attachments are for release to your contacts with the hope of further dissemination. This email is an introduction to a master-list, comprehensive registry of all health facilities in Haiti. This effort is led by the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), in collaboration with USAID, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, corporations such as Shoreland, Inc., and Google, and NGOs such as IMA WorldHealth, Crisis Commons, and Global Health Action. The purpose of this Haiti Health Facilities Capacity Inventory is to collect real-time information that can then inform health professionals and practitioners at any time where they can send patients for the necessary care, based on the availability of services and the location of health facilities. We are requesting that you submit information about your health facility in Haiti as soon as possible. In addition, we ask that you provide updates on your health facility as its capacity changes. All submitted information is owned by the Ministry of Health of Haiti. We recognize that you may have filled out similar surveys since the earthquake. If filling out yet another survey is cumbersome, would you please direct us to the organization that collected your capacity data and we will reach out to them to add your information to our system (write alyson.rose-wood@hhs.gov). However, if this data is outdated please consider filling out this survey. All data submissions will be available on the following Shoreland website on a near real-time basis (most within 30 minutes of submission): www.travax.com. This real-time information is available to access on the Travax® site and will be downloadable in .csv form to be used in any spreadsheet program, such as Excel (by February 20, 2010). In order to maintain data integrity, to enter data on the Travax site directly you will need to enter the username/password combination (haitig1/4aid1). In addition, there is a no-password necessary link to this real-time data on the OneResponse website under "Health Facility Resource Tracking" (for viewing and downloading the data). You can submit information to the Haiti Health Facilities Capacity Inventory through SMS, email, fax, telephone, MMS, and through the internet directly using the password above. The attached document, "How to submit and access Haiti Health Facility Capacity Information" details the submission guidelines. In addition, this document explains how to view and download this information to inform real time decisions as a health practitioner in Haiti. To submit data to this inventory, you will need to use either the attached "Full Survey Form Template" or the "Reduced Survey Information Form" (for SMS, Voicemail, or if you do not have the capability to collect all the information for the full survey form) as your guide; or you can direct our team to where this data is housed and we will collect it on your behalf (write alyson.rose-wood@hhs.gov). The Full Survey Form Template can either be printed out and faxed in, or can serve as a guide to collect information to then report in through email, MMS, telephone, or over the internet directly. We are working to translate the forms into French and Creole and in providing French and Creole-speaking telephone operators. We will notify all when these services become available. If you have questions on the form or how to submit data, please contact: haitiaid@shoreland.com If you have questions on the Haiti Health Facilities Working Group, please contact: Alyson Rose-Wood at alyson.rose-wood@hhs.gov The working group remains active exploring sustainable and improved methods for the longer term. Thank you for your participation in this effort, Click to download:
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| Lyle Karim |
Medical Mission Exchange (www.mmex.org)
is a non-profit organization that provides a free, online database
of short- and long-term medical
missions serving the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras,
and Belize. The goal of Medical Mission Exchange is to facilitate referrals
of underserved patients to appropriate medical specialists in Central
America and the Caribbean. |
