Global Telemedicine Practiced by Your Silicon Valley e-Club
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Global Offsite Care, a Rotary-sponsored telemedicine nonprofit, delivers continuing medical education, remote consultations, and affordable electronic medical records to hospitals in developing countries across Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. The organization enables local Rotary clubs to support hospitals with a comprehensive telemedicine package costing approximately $6,000, significantly improving healthcare capacity and physician expertise globally.
Key takeaways
- Global Offsite Care offers three core services: weekly continuing medical education sessions for medical professionals, remote consultations with specialist physicians, and ultra-affordable electronic medical records (as low as 50 cents per chart monthly) designed for hospitals in resource-limited settings.
- The organization operates as an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit with 12 active projects across 11 countries, partnering with local medical professionals as equals rather than providing top-down solutions, featuring doctors from recipient countries as educators.
- Rotary clubs can adopt telemedicine as a local humanitarian project by equipping nearby hospitals with the full infrastructure package including conferencing equipment, a telepresence robot (Kuby device), and cloud-based electronic medical records for approximately $6,000.
- The electronic medical record system called Harmony MD uses revolutionary low-cost technology that enables hospitals to digitize operations at a fraction of commercial EMR costs, making it accessible to institutions that could never afford traditional systems.
- Future expansion plans include offering accredited continuing medical education credits, launching a vocational training program bringing healthcare professionals from Nepal to California for intensive telemedicine training, and partnering with Rotary International to scale the model across thousands of clubs worldwide.
About Dr. James K. Gude and Mikel CookDr. James K. Gude is a pulmonary physician and professor at University of California San Francisco who founded Global Offsite Care; Mikel Cook is the organization's president.
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Meeting for the week of August 20-26, 2018
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Global Telemedicine Practiced by Your Silicon Valley e-Club
Speaker: Dr. James K. Gude and Mikel Cook
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Here’s a message from President Andrew:
Greetings Rotarians and Guests,This week we have a presentation about that is closely aligned with the spirit of e-Club. As we observe this week’s meeting, feel free to think about new ways we could share expertise or do service. What untapped potential might we have right here in this e-Club? Please feel free to post whatever ideas, thoughts, or questions you might have in the comments section of our Disqus.Have a good week of fresh ideas!
Sincerely,
Andrew Taw,
PresidentRotary eClub of Silicon Valley
Weekly Funny with the Lady of Laughter (LOL)
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Yvonne Kwan, our “Lady of Laughter!”
With school kicking into full gear this week for me, I thought some class-y jokes were in order.
Why did the music teacher need a ladder?To reach the high notes.
Why did the kid want to study in a plane?Because he wanted a higher education.
What object is king of the classroom?The ruler.
Weekly inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
When free diver Marese Secades enters the water, she feels nothing and everything at the same time. “Everything just melts away and I enter a dreamlike world, where I feel that I could fly.”
World of Rotary
Rotary announces US $96.5 million to end poliohttps://youtu.be/jY4AaZq9sSYLearn more at https://www.rotary.org/en/rotary-gives-millions-grants-fight-polio-2018.
Coffee with a Rotarian
A natural part of Rotary is the networking and the fellowship you get out of meeting other Rotarians. Coffee With a Rotarian is a monthly program of our club where we match participating club members for one-on-one virtual (or in some cases in person) coffee meetings, so they can learn more about each other. This program is organized by member Tzviatko Chiderov.
This week we have Rory from Houston, Texas reporting on his chat with Andrew from Oakland, CA, USA.
I met Andrew in person earlier this year, so our CWR visit was a renewal of our former visit.We explored how his new job is progressing. I shared some of my experiences from years of practicing law on how lawyers, trust officers and life insurance agents can aid charitable planning. I hope my insights are still useful.Andrew is a very bright, engaging man. I wish him and his intended the best. If anyone makes it to his wedding reception, you are authorized to have a extra helping of wedding cake on my behalf.
We encourage all club members to participate in Coffee With a Rotarian. You can sign up here!
Service report
Tell us about service you've done recently in your community.
Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
On the first meeting of every month, we feature service reports from club members for the previous month. Thanks for your service everyone!
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We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! This section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
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Upcoming events
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)More events coming soon! All events are open to guests, unless otherwise mentioned. Feel free to join us! If you ever have questions, please email inquiries@siliconvalleyrotary.com
What would you like to do?
Hey Members! What would you like to do? We’re working on putting together some exciting socials and impactful service projects for our upcoming quarter’s event calendar. Let us know what you want to do by posting in our members only Facebook Group (if you don’t have access, please request it with Webmaster Mitty). Remember, you’re only taking advantage of the full impact of Rotary when you’re stepping up to get involved.
Happy Dollars: do good by sharing something good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!This section is usually updated on the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Member Rory Olsen made a $20 donation. Here is what he had to say:Life is good!
Share your happy dollars thoughts with us and help with doing good around the world.
Selected comments
Every week at the bottom of our meetings, there is a comments section for members and guests to tell us what they enjoyed about the meeting or to ask questions to the speaker. We select a few comments every week from last week’s meeting to be featured during this week’s meeting.
Here are the comments selected from last week’s meeting.
Vandana Agrawal said:The presentation of the work which Dignitas is doing in Malawi in reducing the rate of transfer of HIV Virus from mother to child was informative. It would be good if Rotary can work with such organizations so that we do not have any more HIV cases. Rotary played an important role in Polio eradication .Rotarians World over could help our World in getting rid of HIV disease.
Charlie Tuttle said:Heather and Chuck, it's inspiring to hear about the kind of work that you do to improve healthcare for others. I found the Expert Patients especially interesting, as it's something I never would have thought of but makes total sense to have.
Suzanne Van Stralen said:I appreciated Heather and Chuck's presentation very much. The statistic of over 301,000 people starting HIV treatment is significant. What an amazing success story about partnership. Makes me even more proud to be a Rotarian. And, to Gitanjalo Rao, America's Top Young Scientist, I send my appreciation and encouragement. It's wonderful to hear you describing yourself as a scientist!
Be sure to leave a comment at the end of this week’s meeting after you watch the program below, and perhaps you’ll see your comment featured next week!
Program: Global Telemedicine Practiced by Your Silicon Valley e-Club
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others.
For $6,000 you can adopt a deserving, needy Hospital anywhere in the world and partner with Global OffSite Care to provide weekly continuing Medical Education. Global OSC is a consultative telemedicine platform for the developing world.
Additional Information:
https://globaloffsitecare.org/
Share your thoughts or ask our speaker a question in the comments at the bottom of this meeting page!
Upcoming program recording schedule
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
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