July 2008: Release of CALPHR[USB]™

CAL2CAL is pleased to announce the launch of CALPHR[USB]^™ version 1.0 on July 09, 2008 at 10th International Conference on e-Health Networking in Singapore. CALPHR[USB]^™ is standards-based, personal health record for the USB smart drive. This product is under limited release for evaluation purposes.

For further information on CALPHR[USB]^™ please click here .

July 2008: Healthcom 2008, 10th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications & Services

Mr. Gora Datta, Chairman and CEO, CAL2CAL Corporation, USA, is going to conduct a full day HL7 Workshop at Healthcom 2008 (on July 9th). For further information on Healthcom2008 please click here

June 2008: HL7 (Singapore) official launch

Mr. Gora Datta, Chairman and CEO, CAL2CAL Corporation, USA, has been invited to speak at the official launch of HL7 Singapore which will be held on the 27th June 2008.

May 2008: Release of CALPHR[M]™

CAL2CAL is pleased to announce the launch of CALPHR[M]^™ Release Candidate 1 on May 05, 2008 at the HL7 Working Group Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. CALPHR[M]^™ is standards-based, personal health record for the Windows Mobile platform. This product is under limited release for evaluation purposes.

For further information on CALPHR[M]^™ please click here .

*The Claremont Graduate University’s School of Information Systems & Technology (SISAT),Medical & Bio Informatics Program HIM/IS 377, independently evaluated the beta version of calPHR under the guidance of Prof Samir Chatterjee. The report was invaluable in its recommendations and CAL2CAL has implemented them in the next release of calPHR. CAL2CAL would like to express its gratitude to SISAT, CGU and to Prof Chatterjee and the students of the HIM/IS program for this opportunity.

Mar 2008: Bangladesh CCT Project

CAL2CAL has been engaged by The World Bank to produce a report on the application of Information and Communication Technologies for improving governance and reducing irregularities in cash transfer programs in Bangladesh. This study will assist the National Social Protection Program, which envisages serving the poorer section of the population by transferring cash benefits to targeted beneficiaries and to provide micro-insurance and informal sector security services.

Mar 2008: Healthy Lifestyle with Persuasive Technologies Research Center

CAL2CAL, in association with Claremont Graduate University, Loma Linda University and Central IQ is pleased to announce the launch of Healthy Lifestyle with Persuasive Technologies Research Center (HLPT). HLPT is focused on advancing research surrounding the use of persuasive technologies to alter human behaviors, then applying that research to the design, development, and testing of suites of emerging persuasive health care technologies to meet end-user needs.

CAL2CAL was engaged by the Government of India and The World Bank to conduct a “Feasibility Study for introducing Smart Cards into India’s Public Distribution System” in Maharsahtra and Gujrat in early 2008. The outcome of this study was presented to the Finance Ministry, Govt. of India before the 2008-09 budget session and was mentioned in the Union Budget speech by the Finance Minister.

For further information on PDS please click here .

CAL2CAL recently signs a MOU with Ballarat University, Australia. Under this MOU, CAL2CAL will collaborate with the University’s Collaborative Center for eHealth in development of healthcare and mobile systems. This will also give CAL2CAL an opportunity to market its products and services in the growing Asia-Pacific region.

Gora Datta, CEO, CAL2CAL Corporation was invited by the Social Safety Net programs of the World Bank to the 3rd International Conditional Cash Transfers Conference in Istanbul, Turkey during June 26-30, 2006. At the conference he presented “Managing and monitoring CCTs: Paper and pencil or ICT”. The paper and conference proceedings are available at the following site. http://info.worldbank.org/etools/icct06/welcome.asp Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs provide money to poor people conditional on them making investments in their children's human capital such as school attendance or regular use of preventive health care services. Such programs are relatively new, but have been adopted already in a number of countries. Evaluation results from the first generation of programs show that conditional cash transfer programs are an effective means for promoting human capital accumulation among poor households. There is clear evidence of success in increasing enrollment rates, improving preventive health care and raising household consumption. Despite this promising evidence there are concerns regarding constraints of the supply of social services, tradeoffs between social assistance and human capital formation goals, and the fit, effectiveness and appropriateness under different country conditions--especially for low-income/low-capacity countries.

In the past, social transfer programs have been managed keeping paper records. List of beneficiaries, records of payments and other transactions have been exchanged and stored by the agencies involved in the implementation of the programs. There are now many emerging Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) available which could be used to facilitate the record keeping and exchange of information.

World Bank had appointed CAL2CAL in 2005 to research and publish a white paper on using Information & Communication Technologies for monitoring and review of CCT programs in low income countries. Following publication of this white paper, CAL2CAL was invited to a presentation on the applicability of ICT for administration, management and monitoring of CCT programs to government representatives from member countries.

The white paper referenced above is available at the following site:

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOCIALPROTECTION/Resources/SP-Discussion-papers/Safety-Nets-DP/0522.pdf

The UN General Assembly Resolution 56/183 (21 December 2001) endorsed the holding of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in two phases. The first phase took place in Geneva from 10 to 12 December 2003 and the second phase took place in Tunis, from 16 to 18 November 2005.

Gora Datta, CEO and Dr. Rini Verma, Chief Scientific Officer, attended the second phase of WSIS in Tunis as invited representatives of the International Chamber of Commerce.

The objective of the first phase was to develop and foster a clear statement of political will and take concrete steps to establish the foundations for an Information Society for all, reflecting all the different interests at stake. The objective of the second phase was to put the Plan of Action adopted in Geneva during the first phase, into motion as well as to find solutions and reach agreements in the fields of Internet governance, financing mechanisms, and follow-up and implementation of the Geneva and Tunis documents. Nearly 50 Heads of state/government and Vice-Presidents and 197 Ministers, Vice Ministers and Deputy Ministers from 174 countries as well as high-level representatives from international organizations, private sector, and civil society attended the Tunis Phase of WSIS and gave political support to the Tunis Commitment and Tunis Agenda for the Information Society that were adopted on 18 November 2005. More than 19,000 participants from 174 countries attended the Summit and related events.

Jul 2005: Best Paper Award, HL7 Taiwan

CAL2CAL presented a paper at the 6th HL7 International Affiliates Meeting and the 4th Asia-Pacific HL7 Conference on Healthcare Information Standards in Taipei, Taiwan. This paper was titled “Integrated Disease Surveillance Application in a Standard (HL7 V3) Based Public Health Information Network” and won the Best Paper Award.

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