1. What are the IT support needs for patient referrals to a specialist or another medical facility, and does this differ for routine versus provided by an MMC versus emergency care?

2. Define network “reliability” in the MMC environment?

3. What is the possible role of satellite communications? Emerging 4G wireless cellular networks?

4. The typical patient in a developing country such as India is the custodian of his/her patient record. When visiting a specialty clinic, doctors first review the patient’s records before they diagnose and treat a patient. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach?

The Children’s Health Fund (CHF) develops and supports a national network of 22 programs and two affiliates in 15 to 17 states in the United States and the District of Columbia. The mission of the CHF is to provide comprehensive health care to the nation’s most medically underserved children, from birth up to age 24. In-person primary health care, mental health, and oral health services are delivered by teams of doctors, nurses, dentists, psychologists, social workers, and nutritionists at more than 200 service sites across the United States in partnership with pediatric departments and specialists in affiliated academic medical centers or Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC).