Rural hospitals suffer from a brain drain of doctors fleeing to cities as they are often understaffed and underfunded, which further exacerbates the poor conditions of the healthcare for the disadvantaged populations. It is said that an average rural hospital in Thailand has 4-5 hospital staff, including 1 doctor, servicing a population of about 20,000 people.
Capitalizing on the scale and efficiency of technology, Dr. Kongkiat Kespechara created Hospital OS, an open source software tailored to the needs of rural hospitals. This software is aimed to connect a community of healthcare providers in isolated rural areas, collaborating despite the geographical barriers in order to come up with solutions in service improvement and disease prevention to improve the overall quality of health services for rural patients.
To better understand the software and the impact that it has created in alleviating the burden of the rural populations, Forbes Asia interviewed Dr. Kongkiat Kespechara, the founder of the Hospital OS. Click here to read the full article posted on Forbes.com.
