Young Indian is Outstanding American of the Year
30 Sep 2005
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Boston:
Vikram Sheel Kumar (29) Harvard Medical School physician,
who used information technology to bring medical diagnostics
to underdeveloped countries in Africa and Asia has been
included among the ten winners of this year''s Outstanding
Young American awards, presented by the United States
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Kumar is a pathology resident at Brigham and Women''s Hospital in Boston and runs a venture, Dimagi, whose chief customers are non-profit third world health agencies.
With
software co-developed by Dimagi, nurses in India manage
information collected in the field on more than 70,000
patients. And
in rural South Africa, outreach workers use software that
Dimagi helped develop to distribute HIV test results in
remote settings while ensuring confidentiality.
