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Saturday, 10 May 2014 04:00
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Antigua St. John's - The widespread adoption and use of mobile technologies is opening new and innovative ways to improve health and health care delivery.
As such, the Ministry of Telecommunications, Science and Technology continues to work along with the management at Mount St John’s Medical Center (MSJMC) to upgrade the information technology hardware and infrastructure at the hospital.
On Friday medical interns, physicians, EMTs and nurses at the facility were allocated IPAD Air tablets along with high speed internet under the Human Entrepreneurship and Assistive Resource Technologies (HEART) project.
HEART is spearheaded by the Ministry of Telecommunications, Science and Technology in collaboration with Telecoms Company LIME.
One of the components of the multi-faceted project is the allocation of IPAD Air tablets along with high speed internet to established and non-established civil servants.
In excess of one thousand devices will be allocated to public servants across various Ministries over the next few weeks.
After receiving the device, Dr Saleem Hughes noted there are many apps designed for not only patients but doctors. She indicated the wide array of health apps are all impacting on the way doctors and patients approach healthcare in the technological era.
Director of Nursing, Janet Deshong said the tablets can help the nursing staff in a myriad of ways including coordinating care and accessing a wide variety of medical databases.

Minister of Telecommunications, Science and Technology Dr. Hon. Edmond Mansoor said cutting-edge technology is a pre-requisite in building upon the knowledge economy.
“We are ensuring that in all of the operations of government people can leverage on technology in a real way. So it should come as no surprise to you that over the past few weeks under the HEART project we have begun putting in hardware and specialized software in the district medical clinics.” Dr. Mansoor said.
The Ministry’s deploying of hardware to all medical clinics in Antigua complements a move by MSJMC to eventually have all the district clinics networked to the hospitals Radiology Department.
Under HEART the Ministry has also placed open wi-fi signals in all waiting areas at the 185- bed facility.
LIME has committed nine million EC dollars to the HEART project.
Additionally LIME will shortly launch a new 4G LTE platform, resulting in Antigua and Barbuda becoming the only country in the Caribbean to have two separate and distinct 4G LTE networks.
Reporting by Caribarena news, publishing by Ofer Shaked.
20 Comments In This Article
RE: Hospital Staff Allocated IPAD Air tablets
God bless the Government of Antigua, I wish you where my government.
Youth
youth
RE: Hospital Staff Allocated IPAD Air tablets
Nitpicky
How to use iPads
www.cio.com/article/748212/Will_iPads_in_the_Classroom_Make_the_Grade_for_Students_and_Teachers_
Che
RE: Hospital Staff Allocated IPAD Air tablets
Rastaman
@ Meigo Man
Skyewill
Currency!
Then we could make Masour's store the "treasury" to order and distribute the I-Pads on behalf of the government?
Can't you people see what's really going on here? No wonder these guys want to do anything to prevent losing the elections!
Meigo Man
RE: Hospital Staff Allocated IPAD Air tablets
For more than a year MSJMC has had to limp along on 1 Million per month from MBS while the central government finds more important things on which to waste money. Today, if you suffer a head injury and need a CT-Scan, even though you are hospitalised, you have to pay out of your pocket for the tests to be done at Belmont Clinic. If you do not have the money you will have to do without the potentially life saving test. Same thing for X-Rays and simple blood tests.
MSJMC is a complete disaster but the government is least concerned about that.
DadliMan
@ Jumbee Picknee
Duncy Bat Too
RE: Hospital Staff Allocated IPAD Air tablets
NYC
Antigua woman
Antigua woman
...hail gramps...waddup?
"I keep hearing, this word tablet or ipad. I know that my sight is going, my hearing is so and so, I got dentures but the young boy down south can still raise its head like a cobra getting ready to strike, especially when I take two of those little round blue tablets. However, these tablets are big, white and square. They must be very hard to swallow but can I still have a few? I'll just hobble to the pond and drink lots of water. One of these tablets should keep the young boy down south, up all night. Hi honey, I took one of those free Mansoor tablets and I am cuming to give you a good, old fashioned, all night long sessions on I pad.
Gramps, Gramps, Gramps, wake up! These tablets cannot be taken by mouth. They only keep track of things...
Are you trying to tell me, that at my age, I have to keep track of every time I cum? Give me back my little blue tablets, Mansoor is making my brains sore with this giveaway crap.
Jumbee Picknee
RE: Hospital Staff Allocated IPAD Air tablets
Rastaman
RE: Hospital Staff Allocated IPAD Air tablets
GiveMeABreak
RE: Hospital Staff Allocated IPAD Air tablets
Onlooker
Let the truth be told
Imagine this tablet cannot make the sick well but they giving it. After election income tax will include everyone once you are employed, social security will increase pension age to 65 years, no more uniform,port workers will go home, increase the cost of school meal, no tax exemption, no new jobs. They cannot pay the water company or West Indies Oil .This time the IMF will say Antigua GONE.
IMF
What a waste
Jaba
At last!
All that is left now is to get the diagnostic equipment working and the medical personnel salaries paid on time!
Duncy Bat Too
RE: Hospital Staff Allocated IPAD Air tablets
onlooker
Give me an asprin
Patient - Nurse, I am thirsty and I need a bath May I have a glass of water.
Nurse - Sorry but our water his off until next week would you like to look at my tablet instead.
Patient - Nurse me want to Poo poo can I have some toilet paper please
Nurse - Sorry we ran out of toilet paper in 2009, Here, take my Ipad and wipe you **.
Step right up folks, get your free Ipad in time for election, Yes folks the Ipad is very versatile, it slices and dices and for a limited time get one free and get one free. No shipping or handling charges. REMEMBER, VOTE RESPONSIBLY.
Skyewill
Don't forget they need medicine and lab work-dang!
Che
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