Addressing Gender & Women's Empowerment in mHealth for MNCH - mHealth Alliance Publication. This analytical framework builds on the mHealth Alliance’s vision of gender as key to accelerating progress toward goals related to reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). It offers mHealth implementers an outline through which to understand the nuances of gender issues, as well as gaps related to gender. May 2013 MORE
Advancing the dialogue on Mobile Finance and Mobile Health - mHealth Alliance Publication. As mobile network operators (MNOs) continue to try to reduce churn of customers, increas- ing switching costs by launching mHealth and MFS becomes increasingly critical. It is, there- fore, little surprise that these MNOs are working with health providers and governments to integrate mobile money into health service programs. - Washington, DC: mHealth Alliance, MORE
African Strategies for Health (ASH) Project "Trends in Digital Health in Africa" Technical Brief - Lessons from the African Strategies for Health ProjectKey findings from a consultation with experts working on digital health at the national, regional, and global levels. The brief, informed by work throughout the life of ASH, outlines trends, barriers, and opportunities to scale digital health in Africa. MORE
African Strategies for Health (ASH) Project mHealth Compendiums (Editions 1-6 & Infographic) - The mHealth Compendiums document a range of mHealth applications being implemented primarily in Africa. This series was initially published in November 2012. The series contains case studies organized within five programmatic areas: Behavior Change Communication, Data Collection, Finance, Logistics and Service Delivery which document mHealth innovations, many of which seek to contribute MORE
Amplifying the Impact: Examining the Intersection of Mobile Health and Mobile Finance - mHealth Alliance Publication. A discussion guide for collaborative insight presented by the World Economic Forum, in partnership with the mHealth Alliance. - Washington, DC: mHealth Alliance, January 2011 MORE
Asia eHealth Information Network Digital Health Terminology Guide - The field of health informatics is full of very technical terms which can be confusing to a native English speaker and even more confusing to non-native English speakers. This document is intended to present some of the most commonly used terms in simple plain language both in English and Khmer language. This document does not claim to provide the definitive reference MORE
Asia eHealth Information Network National eHealth Capacity Roadmap - In support of AeHIN's Strategic Action Points, we are pleased to share an updated roadmap of action for eHealth success. This roadmap starts with the WHO-ITU National eHealth Strategy Toolkit and shows a systematic progression from strategy to implementation hinged on capacity-building. Several Asian countries had been guided towards their national eHealth strategy in 2013 through the WHO-ITU MORE
Asia Health Information Network Cisco Webex Event Center - Meetings are effective ways for sharing knowledge and building stronger relationships. To foster more in-country and cross-country knowledge exchange, every AeHIN member can now request the use of the network's official online meeting platform, the Cisco Webex Event Center 500.Are there any discussion session/activity which you or your institutions conduct regularly? This could go as regular as MORE
Assessing the Enabling Environment for Establishing a Contextualized National Digital Health Strategy - The aim of this toolkit is to provide a systematic and structured approach to assessing the enabling environment for digital health.To build on the growing momentum of scaled implementation of digital health tools, governments in LMICs require support to transition from an environment of isolated pilots and large-scale programs, to establishing national integrated MORE
Barriers and Gaps Affecting mHealth in Low and Middle Income Countries - mHealth Alliance Publication. A policy white paper researched and written by the Earth Institute, Columbia University, and commissioned by the mHealth Alliance. - New York, NY: Center for Global Health and Economic Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University, May 2010. MORE
Barriers and Gaps Affecting mHealth in Low and Middle Income Countries - The mHealth Alliance commissioned an in‐depth exploration of the policy barriers and research gaps facing mHealth. This White Paper, written by a team of researchers at the Center for Global Health and Economic Development at The Earth Institute, Columbia University, examines and synthesizes the existing mHealth literature to assess the current state of mHealth knowledge and identify barriers and MORE
Baseline Evaluation of the mHealth Ecosystem and the Performance of the mHealth Alliance - mHealth Alliance Publication. The main objective of the baseline evaluation was to provide information about the current level of adoption, actual implementation, funding, and impact of mHealth in LMICs. The evaluation also measured the impact of the mHealth Alliance on promoting mHealth in the global health ecosystem. February 2013 MORE
Beginning with the end in mind: Planning pilot projects and other programmatic research for successful scaling up - This short ExpandNet/WHO guidance document, which is a working draft, provides 12 recommendations and a checklist to help build scaling up considerations into projects from the outset. In this way one can anticipate and plan ahead for eventual scale up from the earliest stages of designing a pilot, demonstration or other operations research intervention. Why it helps with planning: MORE
Building Partnerships that Work: Practical Learning on Partnering in mHealth - This document examines the collective experience of various organizations, including NGOs and multilateral institutions, in building partnerships in mHealth.Why it helps with planning: Lays out considerations for effective mHealth partnerships based on first-hand experiences. MORE
Cell-PREVEN - Cell-PREVEN is part of a large randomized trial in Peru in 20 cities called PREVEN, which seeks to lower STD rates in Peru. PREVEN is a collaborative effort between the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Peru), Imperial College (London) and the University of Washington (Seattle), in collaboration with Peru’s Ministry of Health. Cell-PREVEN is an interactive-computer system using cell phones MORE
Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology (CDE) Diabetes Management App - Managing your diabetes can often be a struggle, trying to balance eating, medication and physical activity. We as the CDE appreciate this struggle and therefore want to make living with diabetes a little easier. If this sounds good, then let us introduce to you the CDE Club.The CDE Club includes important information on managing diabetes, suggested steps to become more physically active, and a MORE
Closing the Access Gap: Innovation to Accelerate Universal Internet Adoption - As governments, donors, think tanks, and others try to understand how to achieve the SDGs, a significant body of work on barriers and progress toward internet access and adoption is expanding. The Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) commissioned this paper to understand potential business model and technology innovations for accelerating access and adoption MORE
CommCare - CommCare applications, free for anyone to use or adapt. Includes case management and monitoring tools as well as counseling guides for MNCH and nutrition.CommCare is used in over 40 countries and is lauded as one of the most widely adopted, technically advanced, and evidence-based mobile platform for low-resource settings. MORE
CommCare User Group - Updates and announcements from Dimagi about CommCare; active discussions from a global community of CommCare users. MORE
CONNECT/NHIN - A software solution that lets federal agencies securely link their existing health information technology systems to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), an information highway for health data exchange that connects more than 20 federal agencies.CONNECT is an open source software solution that supports health information exchange – both locally and at the national level. CONNECT uses MORE
Connecting the Next Four Billion: Strengthening the Global Response for Universal Internet Access - We live in a world where the Internet is increasingly integrated into our daily lives. Beyond getting online through computers or mobile devices, wrist bands track our daily exercise, and smart thermostats moderate our home climates. Even more importantly, much of our work and many of our transactions are conducted online, from communicating with our friends and coworkers, to MORE
CORE Group's mHealth Interest Group - CORE Group convened this "mHealth community of practice” in response to interest in community-level applications that can increase quality, equity, scale, and/or sustainability of health efforts. As part of CORE Group's larger Community Health Network, this interest group is a place where ideas, experience, and expertise converge. Health program implementers and researchers work MORE
cStock: A Sustainable Approach to Using mHealth to Support the Community Health Supply Chain (PPT) - Megan Noel, Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor for JSI's Supply Chains 4 Community Case Management (SC4CCM) Project gave this presentation at the November 2013 meeting of the mHealth Working Group. The presentation covers the cStock program along with the SC4CCM project in Malawi, which a focus on scale up considerations. Detailed case study with information on scale-up, sustainability, and MORE
CycleTel™: Bringing a market-based mindset to mHealth - CycleTel™ is an innovative mHealth product: a fertility awareness-based family planning method delivered to users via SMS. The Global mHealth Initiative spoke with Alexis Ettinger and Nicki Ashcroft from the Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) to learn more about this USAID-funded program. The article covers the following topics: -What is CycleTel? -Why MORE
DataWinners - Data Collection, Team Communication, Better Decision Making: DataWinners is the first completely integrated, mobile data collection and communication service that uses the equipment you already have.
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