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Jul 1, 2009

WHO Burkina Faso eHealth Report

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Burkina Faso

eHealth foundation actions build an enabling environment for the use of ICT for health. These include supportive eHealth policy, legal and ethical frameworks; adequate funding from various sources; infrastructure development; and developing the capacity of the health work force through training. eHealth applications surveyed in 2009 include telemedicine (the delivery of health care services using ICT where distance is a barrier to care); mHealth (the use of mobile devices in delivering health care services); and eLearning (use of ICT for learning).

 

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Jul 6, 2009

WHO Benin eHealth Snapshot

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Benin

eHealth foundation actions build an enabling environment for the use of ICT for health. These include supportive eHealth policy, legal and ethical frameworks; adequate funding from various sources; infrastructure development; and developing the capacity of the health work force through training.. eHealth applications surveyed in 2009 include telemedicine (the delivery of health care services using ICT where distance is a barrier to care); mHealth (the use of mobile devices in delivering health care services); and eLearning (use of ICT for learning).

 

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May 1, 2014

Project Mwana: Using mobile technology to improve early infant diagnosis of HIV

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Zambia

Through the use of RapidSMS mobile technology, Project Mwana delivers test results for diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in infants in real time to rural clinics and facilitates communications between clinics and community health workers.

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Aug 1, 2012

Improving Data Use in Decision Making: An Intervention to Strengthen Health Systems

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Global

Health systems strengthening has become a top priority of many global and national health agendas as a way to improve health outcomes. With the global health context becoming increasingly complex, national health systems are beginning to move away from a focus on disease-specific health responses to comprehensive strengthening of health systems. This paper will discuss the unique role of health data in strengthening the other five building blocks of health systems; define specific interventions to strengthen the use of data in decision making; and provide a framework for developing, monitoring, and evaluating interventions to improve the use of and demand for data.

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Jun 13, 2014

Improving the Reporting of Immunization Data

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Global

UNICEF Training Module 8: Improving the Reporting of Immunization Data

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Oct 1, 2011

Project Mwana: Using mobile phones to improve early infant HIV diagnostic services, post-natal follow-up and care

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Zambia

In June 2010, the MoH, in partnership with UNICEF, CHAI and ZCHARD, launched the Project Mwana RapidSMS pilot to reduce delays in transmitting results from the HIV test laboratories to the rural health facilities via SMS message. To date, the project has been piloted in 13 predominantly rural districts of Zambia.

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Apr 19, 2012

Measuring childhood vaccine coverage in England: the role of Child Health Information Systems

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United Kingdom

Child Health Information Systems (CHISs) are computerised clinical record systems which support a range of health promotion and prevention activities for children, including immunisation and screening. These systems are managed by child health departments in each local area and not all are interoperable. The establishment of systems which record and maintain accurate information on the entire population is critical to assess vaccination coverage at both national and local levels. These systems should have the flexibility to adapt to a continuously evolving immunisation programme, a mechanism to rapidly feedback to local public health teams for outbreak prevention and control, and the ability to mount a timely response to vaccine safety scares. The ability to schedule (call and recall) immunisation appointments has contributed to improvements in vaccination coverage both in England and elsewhere. While this has been achieved in England through multiple CHISs the development of a single national register would reduce the complexities of maintaining accurate and complete immunisation records for the entire population.

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Jul 27, 2012

Development of a new platform for neglected tropical disease surveillance


Global

An expanded global focus on the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) has called attention to the need to develop and validate surveillance strategies that are cost effective and can be integrated across diseases. This paper describes a multiplex tool for the sensitive detection of antibody responses to NTDs as well as vaccine preventable diseases, malaria, and waterborne and zoonotic infections. The assay platform is robust, can be performed with either serum or dried blood spots and can be adapted to local epidemiological conditions and public health priorities. Multiplex assays open the door to conducting routine serosurveillance for NTDs through demographic health surveillance or malaria indicator surveys.

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Aug 26, 2009

Assessment of the quality of immunization data produced by the national individual registration system in Uruguay, 2006

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Uruguay

The nominal registration system of Uruguay's national immunization program (NIP) tracks administered vaccines on a paper form filled out after each vaccination and collated into a national database, thus allowing for individual follow-up. This study performed a comprehensive assessment of the quality of Uruguay's immunization data in November 2006 to evaluate the validity of the information and to confirm the high national immunization coverage reported by the program

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Nov 1, 2012

Albania pilots an immunization information system

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Albania

The Albanian Ministry of Health, in collaboration with project Optimize, developed a registry-based immunization information system (IIS) and piloted it in Shkoder district. This factsheet illustrates how the data the new system produces is used to improve the management of the vaccination program, how it is changing the way people collaborate, how it ensures timely and equal access to immunization for all children, and how it reduces the administrative burden on staff.

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