ALFM Action Line C7 E Health

WHO/ITU

Session 293

14:30–16:15, Monday, 19 March 2018 Room H2, ITU Montbrillant Interactive Action Line Facilitation Meeting Speakers/Panellists  Link to WSIS Action Lines  Link to SDGs 

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This session will bring together a number of organizations working on eHealth to share experiences and latest lessons learned and trends. The session will provide an overview of the global status of eHealth and the way forward. The presentations will focus on how appropriate eHealth solutions can strengthen health systems and empower community health workers to manage the delivery and promotion of healthcare particularly to reach the last mile in resource constrained environments.

Moderator

Hani Eskandar, ICT Applications Coordinator, ITU


Speakers/Panellists

Welcome Remarks: Kemal Husseinovic, Chief, Infrastructure, Enabling Environment and E-Applications (IEE), ITU

Digital Health: Status and Roadmap & WHO eHealth activities

Diana Zandi, eHealth, Service Delivery and Safety, WHO 
Per Hasvold, Be Healty, Be Mobile, ITU-WHO-EU mHealth Innovation and Knowledge Hub

mHealth4Afrika: Strengthening Primary Healthcare Delivery in Resource Constrained Environments

Miriam Cunningham, Chief Operations Officer, IIMC International Information Management Corporation

This presentation will share insight into the co-design of a modular, open-source health information system, designed to improve primary healthcare delivery in resource constrained environments. The objectives are to assist primary healthcare facilities to increase: quality and impact of care; frequency of contact (focus on prevention); accuracy and quality of monthly aggregate program indicators; and access to educational materials for clinic staff (supporting continuous professional medical education) and patients (supporting a prevention strategy).

Innovating for Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 To end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age by 2030.

Dr N.N Sipula CEO & Founder of WatIF Health Portal

This presentation will focus on how the WatIF Health Portal continues to leverage ICT as a Health-work-force multiplier and a potent tool for incorporating lay people into mainstream clinical work to deliver easy to adopt, highly scalable health solutions in resource constraint societies. It will demonstrate how ICT is leveraged to turn play-schools/creches into extended centers of preventative health care for children under five years, to deliver a comprehensive,  integrated health screening program for early detection and preventative case finding for children at risk that incorporates a life-long child immunisation tracking program. It will demonstrate how the program strengthens National Health Systems by unearthing a health-work-force never before imagined, while generating a country-wide actionable central database of children’s health needs that can be shared with existing District Health Information Systems that are HL7 compatible, at little or no cost to government.

Mobile solutions in India at the last mile 
Sujay Santra, iKure Techsoft Private Limited

The presentation will focus on how iKure leverages village women as community health workers, trained and equipped with health IT system to deliver prevention and wellness intervention for India’s rural population. Utilizing integrated ICT solutions such as wireless technology, digital health cards, and artificial intelligence, we will showcase how we are transforming the public healthcare system from curative based model into community based preventive healthcare system enabling holistic well-being of the communities, better management of routine health services and supply chain challenges at the last mile. 

Session's link to WSIS Action Lines

  • AL C7 e-Hea logo C7. ICT Applications: E-health

Session's link to Sustainable Development Process

  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being logo Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all

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