Building an Information Quality Lab on e-health in the rural areas for healthcare education

The Information Quality Lab (IQL) is planned to develop low cost movable/mobile community e-health system for rural area. The system is built on the wireless LAN technology known as WiFi, which is the standard developed by the IEEE 802 Committee. Research framework and implementation phases in the IQL will be described in this paper. The national survey and analysis on the telecommunications environment and the needs of rural communities of the developing countries conducted by IQL will be briefly introduced. The future perspective for the development of rural communications including the applications of e-health care will also be discussed.