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Sep 1, 2012

Defining Functional Requirements for Immunization Information Systems

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This document contains the products of three workgroup sessions to collaboratively and rigorously define a full range of important IIS functions, referred to here as business processes. This detailed documentation for seventeen such business processes is intended to establish best practice for how an IIS should function in an increasingly e‐health world.

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Dec 31, 2013

Atlas of eHealth Country Profiles


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This Atlas presents data collected on 64 of 75 United Nations Commission on Information and Accountability (CoIA) countries. The Commission developed an accountability framework with three interconnected processes – monitoring, reviewing and action. It focused specifically on these 75 countries as together they have 98% of the world’s maternal and child mortality. The survey was undertaken by the WHO Global Observatory for eHealth between June and October 2013 and represents the most current information on the use of eHealth for women and children in these countries. The objective of the country profiles is to describe the current status of the use of ICT for women’s and children’s health in CoIA countries. The country survey tools may be downloaded from the following web site: http://www.who.int/goe. All country profiles can be accessed at the same URL.

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Feb 1, 2015

The Economic Burden of Infectious Diseases


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Most of us are aware that infectious diseases exact a large toll on humans around the world. Some diseases kill, others maim, and most cause a loss in productivity while the infected person is too ill to go about their daily life. We know that many of these infectious diseases occur in lower-income areas of the world. So that begs the question, what kind of impact are these diseases having on the economies of those lower-income countries if their citizens are experiencing a high burden of infectious disease?

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Jan 8, 2015

mHealth Country Feasibility Report: Ghana 2014


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The Ghana mHealth Country Feasibility Report is from a series of 10 reports for Sub-Saharan Africa (Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia). Each report examines the in-country mobile landscape along with the health burden, in terms of nutrition and maternal and child health, and assesses the potential for mHealth services to contribute to public health needs.

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Dec 31, 2013

BID Initiative Tools Developer Summit Report

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In December 2013, the Better Immunization Data (BID) Initiative hosted a Tools Developer Summit at the PATH office in Washington, DC. This meeting brought information and communication technology (ICT) developers together with the BID Initiative team, partners, and donors to explore the challenges in immunization systems in Africa. The participants focused on how ICT could be used to address three key challenges: beneficiary interfacing, patient identification, and supply chain management. Over the course of two days, participants shared their expertise and ideas, and discussed opportunities for ongoing collaboration in order to solve these problems.

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Nov 5, 2014

A systematic review of barriers to data sharing in public health

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In the current information age, the use of data has become essential for decision making in public health at the local, national, and global level. Despite a global commitment to the use and sharing of public health data, this can be challenging in reality. No systematic framework or global operational guidelines have been created for data sharing in public health. Barriers at different levels have limited data sharing but have only been anecdotally discussed or in the context of specific case studies. Incomplete systematic evidence on the scope and variety of these barriers has limited opportunities to maximize the value and use of public health data for science and policy.

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Aug 1, 2014

Mapping Health Information System Competencies for Health Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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The Health Information Systems Knowledge Hub’s Working Paper Series is the principal means to disseminate the knowledge products developed by the hub as easily accessible resources that collectively form a lasting repository of the research findings and knowledge generated by the hub’s activities. Working papers are intended to stimulate debate and promote the adoption of best practice for health information systems in the region. The series focuses on a range of knowledge gaps, including new tools, methods and approaches, and raises and debates fundamental issues around the orientation, purpose and functioning of health information systems.

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Dec 9, 2014

The Journey to Scale: Moving together past digital health pilots

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This paper describes a journey toward successful scale in digital health interventions. Along the journey, use of digital tools for health will shift from being a disruptive innovation to being institutionalized as common practice. Our vision is a world where we no longer refer to mHealth or eHealth services, but rather take as a given that digital tools are incorporated seamlessly throughout health systems, enabling greater health impact.

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Dec 1, 2014

BLN Design Collaborative Preview, 1st-4th December 2014

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As a part of these ongoing efforts, the BLN will host a Design Collaborative meeting from the 1st- 4th of December, 2014, in Lusaka Zambia. The meeting will bring together eHealth personnel from Ministries of Health in ten countries in West, East, Central and Southern Africa, to evaluate requirements and systems for immunization data generation and management.

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Dec 1, 2014

The journey to scale: Moving together past digital health pilots

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The digital health community is on a journey to deliver health impact. We have achieved considerable success in the past decade, demonstrating that information and communication technology can improve health services delivery in the developing world. Although our achievements implementing pilots should be celebrated, we must also acknowledge that digital health interventions are not yet routinely used as part of all global health service delivery and have not yet been proven to demonstrate large scale health impact. This paper describes a journey toward successful scale in digital health interventions.

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