Hello collaborators/colleagues,

   I'm Kennedy Ganti, MD and am a resident in Family Medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. I am intersted in primary care medicine, adolescent medicine,  clinical informatics and cultural sensitivity and competency training. This part of the SAHRI space is a blog dedicated to the informatics end of SAHRI.
   As we know, information technologies (IT) has transformed the Indian subcontinent both economically and culturally. The flood of H1B technology workers have opened South Asia as a powerhouse of computing. With dominance in India and up and coming markets in Sri  Lanka and Pakistan, the economy, politics and cultural factors of  the region are gaining more global attention as South Asia becomes a vital contributor to world affairs. It is the health of all South Asians (in the US and in South Asia) that is the prime concern of SAHRI.
   SAHRI (South Asian Health Research Institute) is dedicated to researching health care issues and sciences of the South Asian communities. Since this is a massive undertaking by our colleagues and contributors, we need a 'virtual home' to develop and showcase different efforts in research and research collaborations.
   In this blog, I will be chronicalling the devlopment of the information technology and clinical informatics that will be implemented as SAHRI grows. Hopefully, this will also stimulate forums to  initiate multinational informatics intiatives that puts the power of IT into the hands of clinicians everywhere.
   So it is my great pleasure to inaugurate the SAHRI CyberCorner!!


Kennedy Ganti, MD