I mentioned software development. I’m a software engineer and for the past several years, I’ve been building, deploying, improving, and maintaining an electronic medical records system that is used to manage patient care in a medical clinic in rural Kenya—Africa, that is.
The clinic is located in the Mbirikani Group Ranch, a reservation-like location for the indigenous people of Kenya: the Massai. The clinic was founded and is maintained by AID Village Clinics, funded by a philanthropist in Chicago.
We put version 1.0 of my product into production at the clinic in May 2007. Since then, I’ve been working on version 2, which includes some major upgrades, including drug inventory tracking and prescription printing. Finally, in February of 2011, we deployed version 2. I just got back a week ago.
So, it’s been ok that the weather’s been bad and we haven’t had the money to proceed on the house, since I’ve been spending every waking minute for several months finishing this version and preparing for deployment. And now, it’s done. There’s still considerable work left over, but at a much less frenetic pace.
I wanted to share some pictures of my trip. More later.
