Jan 9, 2006
Building Foundations for eHealth- Kenya WHO 2006
eHealth, eHealth architecture, WHO
Kenya
Kenya reports that the majority of the listed actions to promote an enabling environment for information and communication technologies (ICT) in the health sector have been taken between 2000 and 2005. These actions are rated from moderately to very effective and are predicted to continue over the next two years. The implementation of a national eHealth policy, and creation of regulations to protect the privacy and security of individual patient data where eHealth is used are likely to be introduced by 2008.
Jan 22, 2008
Understanding Biometrics
Applications, eHealth, eHealth architecture, Hardware, Standards, Tools
Global
Biometrics refers to the automatic identification of human beings based on their physical and/or behavioural characteristics (Bio = life + Metrics = measurement). These characteristics present some specific properties such as, uniqueness and persistency, making them suitable for this kind of task. Examples of physical characteristics include among others: fingerprints, face, iris, retina, and hand geometry. On the other hand, examples of behavioural characteristics include: signature, voice, keystroke dynamics, etc. The purpose of this book is to serve as an introductory source of information for people interested in Biometrics.
Jul 14, 2014
Understanding the needs and wants of pregnant women and mothers
Maternal, perinatal and under-5 mortality in South Africa remain high. It is estimated that 40% of all deaths are avoidable. With the ubiquity of mobile services in developing markets, value-added services such as mobile money and mobile health (mHealth) are increasingly offered as a more convenient and cheaper solution for people to access not only information but also actual financial and healthcare services.Jan 8, 2007
Using a Fingerprint Recognition System in a Vaccine Trial to Avoid Misclassification
Applications, eHealth, eHealth architecture, Immunization Registry, Peer Learning, Tools
Global
Oct 26, 2009
First Experiences in Implementation of Biometric Technology to Link Data From Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems with Health Facility Data
Data Warehouse, eHealth, eHealth architecture, Immunization Registry, openMRS, Software
Global
In developing countries, Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSSs) provide a framework for tracking demographic and health dynamics over time in a defined geographical area. Many HDSSs co-exist with facility-based data sources in the form of Health Management Information Systems (HMIS). Integrating both data sources through reliable record linkage could provide both numerator and denominator populations to estimate disease prevalence and incidence rates in the population and enable determination of accurate health service coverage.
Jul 12, 2004
DIDAFIT: Detecting Intrusions in Databases Through Fingerprinting Transactions
eHealth, eHealth architecture, eHealth Plan, Hardware, Software
Global
Jan 11, 2010
Global Observatory for eHealth series – Volume 1
eHealth, eHealth architecture, eHealth Plan, mHealth, WHO
Global
Jul 17, 2014
BLN Webinar: Explaining Health Enterprise Architecture
eHealth, eHealth architecture, Products
Global
The Better Immunization Data Initiative Learning Network (BLN) recently hosted a webinar which outlined the basics for understanding and developing health enterprise architecture. Aimed at both technical and non-technical participants, the talk walked through, in plain language, what enterprise architecture is, why it is important, and how ministries of health can leverage straightforward techniques to develop a national-scale blueprint to guide their ICT investments.
Jun 9, 2009
Ghana National eHealth Strategy
eHealth, eHealth architecture, eHealth Plan, eLMIS, Telecommunications, VIMS (Vaccine Information Management System), WHO
Ghana
It is becoming increasingly clear that many developing countries, including Ghana, will find it difficult to achieve all the targets of the Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015. The challenges are well documented. Weak health systems exacerbated by continuing challenges in developing and retaining the requisite human resource for health have contributed to the current level of performance of the health sector in many developing countries. To overcome these challenges, the need for a faster and effective way to generate knowledge, share knowledge and translate knowledge into effective and affordable interventions and strategies that make health care accessible to the most needy and vulnerable people in our societies is urgently needed.
Apr 26, 2012
Ghana eHealth Framework
DHIS2, eHealth, eHealth architecture, eHealth Plan, mHealth, Peer Learning, WHO
Ghana
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