Health eVillages

Health eVillages is a healthcare and human rights advocacy consortium, which aims to bring mobile medical reference and decision support technology to clinicians fighting to save lives in underserved regions worldwide.

Health eVillages will be assisting healthcare professionals practicing medicine in the most challenging clinical environments, by providing them with mobile clinical reference and decision support tools for medical training, diagnostics and clinical references.

Health eVillages is comprised of leading international healthcare advocacy organizations, mobile healthcare solution providers, health information technology companies, communication providers and public health foundations. They will provide healthcare professionals in disadvantaged areas with new and refurbished mobile phones and handheld devices that do not require Internet access and are preloaded with clinical decision support reference tools, to ensure caregivers and patients have safe access to updated medical references in remote locations. All devices include drug guides, medical alerts, journal summaries and references from over 50 medical publishers’ resources powered by Skyscape.com, Inc.

To date, Health eVillages has conducted pilot projects in several regions, including Haiti, Kenya, Uganda, and the Greater Gulf Coast. The Health eVillages advisory board is comprised of accomplished executives that have played a critical role in the healthcare industry throughout their careers and bring vast knowledge, dedication and insight to the Health eVillages program.

Members of the Health eVillages Advisory Board include:

• Kerry Kennedy, co-founding partner, president of the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights
• Donato Tramuto, co-founding partner, CEO and vice chairman of Physicians Interactive Holdings
• John Boyer, chairman of the board of directors for Maximus Federal Services
• Glen Tullman, chief executive officer of Allscripts
• Steve Andrzejewski, former chief executive officer of NycoMed, Inc.
• Alexander Baker, chief operating officer of Partners Community Healthcare
• Dr. Mary Jane England, former president of Regis College
• Neil Versel, freelance healthcare journalist

For more information about Health eVillages, please visit www.HealtheVillages.org.