Friday, December 31, 2010

Did someone say chocolate?

O-liotia (Hello, how are you?)

Staging Network
Phil has been hard at work trying to get a speedy and reliable internet connection which isn't all that easy considering we are in rural Africa. Less than an hour ago, he seems to have figured it out. He's a genius! It's quite impressive to see someone so focused for hours and hours at a time. I have been right next to him continuing to work on the reference manual. The more he develops, the more I document.

We have three hearty meals a day here. A hired cook prepares meals for us everyday. The African sun is quite powerful and anyone who knows me knows my skin just loves that... I've never craved chocolate so much in my life. Thank God for Joe. He had chocolate!

Walking through local farms
Joe has been going to town everyday on the motorcycle. A good forty miles on a small dirt bike to ensure the clinic has enough medication in stock and Phil has the right adaptors/voltage regulators and whatever else he may need to get the system up and running. He and Kathy are donating a lot of their resources and love to this clinic. I've never seen Joe so happy! He took us for a walk around the village today and every child we saw (no joke) kept yelling Joe! Joe! They all seem to know him.

There were two little girls hanging out in the kitchen area all day today (the cook's nieces) Maxi, one of the girls does not stop smiling and staring. Just wanted to pick her up and snuggle her. The other little girl (don't know name) is afraid of white people (Mazoongu). If we try to look at her she starts crying. Kathy thinks it's hilarious! It is.

Clinic sign at main road
Dr. Kathy has been treating patients in the clinic for two long days. She is learning from the staff how everything runs. This is useful information for Phil while he is developing the system. She has recently diagnosed a pregnant woman with Malaria and a patient with Typhoid Fever which is something a practicing doctor in the U.S. would probably never diagnose.

Tonight is New Year's eve and we plan to celebrate! Happy New Year indeed! Love you all (sorry for any errors, grammar, etc hehehehe) PCJK

Uganda's Great Crested Crane

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

We are safe in Ddegeye!


We arrived in Ddegeye yesterday evening after a very long flight and a six hour bus ride from Kampala. We are safe and healthy and were greeted with lots of hugs. Africa is absolutely beautiful and all the children run up to us smiling and waving. This is our first full day at the clinic and we are working on getting all of the computers hooked up. The clinic is very busy and sees more than sixty patients a day. The clinic opens at eight in the morning but most of the patients have been waiting since six a.m. We hope to make a difference and will continue to do our best. Mucho Love from all of us to all of you, PCJK

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

 On the 3rd day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a program in a software tree...

Monday, December 20, 2010

Staging Network



  We have hardware setup in a staging network stateside. Running off 3g tether on my cellphone. Much of the infrastructure is in place.

  Not much time left before we take off and so much coding yet to do. We may have to work through Christmas.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Started working on the Software

  Over the weekend I put in about 20 hours of actual coding and got a good start on the framework and website. The software will be released, opensource, and is called OCEMR (Open Clinic Electronic Medical Records.)

  Here's a graphical map of the Database structure:


  And a screenshot of the new interface.