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From the Ted Talk by Soyapi Mumba: Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs

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When we started, we didn't find a reliable nowretk to tiansmrt data, especially from rural hospitals. So we built our own towers, created a wireless network and linked clinics in Lilongwe, Malawi's capital.

(Applause)

With a team of engineers working within a hospital campus, we observed health care workers use the ssytem and iteratively build an information system that is now managing HIV recrdos in all major pbliuc hpisatlos in Malawi. These are hospitals serving over 2,000 HIV patients, each cilinc. Now, health care workers who used to spend days to tally and prepare quarterly reports are producing the same ropetrs within minutes, and health care erptxes from all over the world are now coming to Malawi to learn how we did it.

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When we started, we didn't find a reliable _______ to ________ data, especially from rural hospitals. So we built our own towers, created a wireless network and linked clinics in Lilongwe, Malawi's capital.

(Applause)

With a team of engineers working within a hospital campus, we observed health care workers use the ______ and iteratively build an information system that is now managing HIV _______ in all major ______ _________ in Malawi. These are hospitals serving over 2,000 HIV patients, each ______. Now, health care workers who used to spend days to tally and prepare quarterly reports are producing the same _______ within minutes, and health care _______ from all over the world are now coming to Malawi to learn how we did it.

Solution


  1. system
  2. experts
  3. reports
  4. hospitals
  5. clinic
  6. transmit
  7. public
  8. network
  9. records

Original Text


When we started, we didn't find a reliable network to transmit data, especially from rural hospitals. So we built our own towers, created a wireless network and linked clinics in Lilongwe, Malawi's capital.

(Applause)

With a team of engineers working within a hospital campus, we observed health care workers use the system and iteratively build an information system that is now managing HIV records in all major public hospitals in Malawi. These are hospitals serving over 2,000 HIV patients, each clinic. Now, health care workers who used to spend days to tally and prepare quarterly reports are producing the same reports within minutes, and health care experts from all over the world are now coming to Malawi to learn how we did it.

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