Innovation in Health Care
- For the last 15 years our Breast Care Center in Khulna has provided in one place affordable and high-quality services to diagnose breast problems, plan treatment, and provide hormonal and chemotherapies along with palliative home care for over 22,000 women. We created secured software first time in Bangladesh for Electronic Medical Records of each patient. This program is nationally recognized as a champion in e-Health innovation that was awarded by the Ministry of Science and D.Net (2010).
- For cancer Palliative Home Care, we developed mSystem to obtain symptoms of life-end patients to assess their health conditions for spiritual and mental comfort through counselling support. The scientific basis we invented through our study can be read at-
∎https://epublications.marquette.edu/mscs_fac/233/
∎ Love, R.R., Ferdousy, T., Paudel, B.D., Nahar, S., Dowla, R., Adibuzziman M., Ahsan, G.M.T., Uddin, M., Salim, R., and Ahamed, S.I.: Symptom levels in care-seeking Bangladeshi and Nepalese adults with advanced cancer. JCO Global Oncology July 27, 2016, doi:10.1200/JGO.2016.004119
∎ Love, R.R., Ahsan, G.M.T., Ferdousy, T., Nahar, S., Ahmed, S.I.: Symptoms in Bangladeshi patients with incurable cancers: implications for interventions. Indian J Palliative Care 2018. 24(2):173-5. - A Primary Care Digital Health Center in Sreefoltala (Rampal sub-district) sees 20 patients a day. In these facilities we have developed the innovative operations to be scaled up in our new Ambulatory Clinic and Diagnostic Center. The detailed of our Digital Center operation can be found- https://www.swasthyasheba.net/
Through this social innovation in health care program over the last 3 years, Amader Gram has placed 78 full-time village health volunteers in 84 of the Rampal’s 138 villages with about 200 families each, as well as providing a 24/7 virtual health care ‘hotline’ tele-medicine consultation service for urgent care advice and general health information. We have used the secure Microsoft Teams communications platform for up to 1000 Amader Gram employees under a license which will provide such use for the current and expected expanded numbers of our health care workers through 2028. - STEM Translational Communication Research program - through a collaborative partnership with the University of Florida we developed an innovative and active network among the social scientists and interdisciplinary researchers committed to improving communication surrounding science and health. Through this collaborative partnership we created strategic partnerships among university researchers, community members, the healthcare industry, and the environmental sector around evidence-based communication. We improve the messages, techniques, and strategies in science, environment, and health literacy, enhancing knowledge engagement, and behavioral change. Properly translated and communicated to various audiences, basic research in science, technology, engineering, and medicine (STEM) can lead to enhanced individual, family, group, and policy-level decision-making. Details are available at-https://www.jou.ufl.edu/stem/research-2/research/featured-projects/bangladesh/
