From c835897e286bbfc9900a3c9c17a01d659c6d0c21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "meytal (Mitch) Vainstub" <meyvain@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:54:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] first draft for project goals

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 README.md | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 ## Datasets:  
 https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/publication/pub9932
+
+
+# malaria-docs
+
+## Datasets:  
+https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/publication/pub9932
+
+
+
+## project purpose 
+
+### project challenges 
+
+- new independent medical device or using an existing infrastructure/equipment (smartphone) and aim to improve the diagnostic process 
+- not medically nor technically well trained personal 
+- budget: for general adoption throughout south Sahara African countries must be   
+
+
+remote 
+
+### malaria DIAGNOSTIC challenges 
+
+- Presumptive diagnostic
+- Microscopy thick smear
+- Rapid Diagnostic Test
+
+* Acknowledging, the limitations of each method, local best practice is to use all three methods.
+
+
+### treatment 
+Three days of Artemisinin treatment
+
+# possible storage options
+- raspberry pi
+- cloud (conditional on internet infrastructure)  
+

From 4afae3d32ebff3f692ae0b5c2bd55cf9d93e2ed4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "meytal (Mitch) Vainstub" <meyvain@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:36:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update README.md

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@@ -9,19 +9,14 @@ https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/publication/pub9932
 ## Datasets:  
 https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/publication/pub9932
 
+# project purpose 
 
 
-## project purpose 
+## Background 
 
-### project challenges 
-
-- new independent medical device or using an existing infrastructure/equipment (smartphone) and aim to improve the diagnostic process 
-- not medically nor technically well trained personal 
-- budget: for general adoption throughout south Sahara African countries must be   
+*see presentation for full details https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GJHvZOue72l2UZTkG139Mc0QleS45RrM/view
 
 
-remote 
-
 ### malaria DIAGNOSTIC challenges 
 
 - Presumptive diagnostic
@@ -30,11 +25,37 @@ remote
 
 * Acknowledging, the limitations of each method, local best practice is to use all three methods.
 
+* existing diagnostics process:
+The Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT)
+(for full explanation for the RDT proplems see presentation on Google docs -link above)
 
 ### treatment 
-Three days of Artemisinin treatment
+Three days of Artemisinin treatment. 
+Artemisinin is the most effective anti-malarial drug. Artemisinin resistant parasites have been found in Cambodia.
+
+
+### project challenges 
+
+- should we aim for | new independent medical device| or | using an existing infrastructure/equipment (smartphone) and aim to improve the diagnostic process 
+- not medically nor technically well trained personal (Light health training funded by international donors)
+- personal usually over worked and as a result often misdiagnos 
+- budget: for general adoption throughout south Sahara African countries must be   
 
-# possible storage options
+
+### product / service key features 
+
+- microscop / mobile phone app 
+- Ai powered 
+- multiple use (instaid of current solusion which are single use only) 
+- Quick diagnostic
+- Efficiency
+
+
+### possible storage options
 - raspberry pi
 - cloud (conditional on internet infrastructure)  
 
+
+
+
+