Ann: RAP Licenses Additional Pneumonia Diagnostic from UniQuest, page-97

for anyone interested the slides give an indication of how doctors in third world categorise illness, the methods today are explained in the slides, specifically slide 26 for pneumonia.

I think our new algorithim simply applies to measurements taken under the IMCI rules and are more effective, so licensing this to Unicef etc is a good thing, not a world beater in financial terms IMO, but for the kids involved it may well be their world.

IMCI is used by all the WHO types of organisations to categorise illness, not to diagnose it. More a priority queuing method if you have nothing around. In general its not great as according to MSF (doctors without borders) there is an over treatment of patients with antibiotics of 60%. Thats extra cost, and allows the bugs to gain immunity over time, making a pandemic more likely. Cutting this down to treat the real patients saves the cost, resources and risk.

Juts thought Id share