Delivering mHealth Education at Scale in India: Lessons Learned - In this webinar, Sara Chamberlain, Head at ICT of BBC Media Action, India discusses scaling mobile health education services for hundreds of thousands of frontline health workers across the Indian states of Bihar, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh, in partnership with six of the largest mobile operators in India: Airtel, BSNL, Idea, Reliance, TATA and Vodafone. BBC Media Action's award-winning mobile MORE
Digital Diversity, National Geographic NewsWatch - A blog produced produced by Ken Banks (Founder of kiwanja.net, FrontlineSMS and Means of Exchange) to share stories about how mobile phones and appropriate technologies are being used throughout the world to improve, enrich, and empower billions of lives. MORE
Digital Health for Systems: Strengthening Family Planning Systems Through Time and Resource Efficiencies - This new High Impact Practice (HIP) brief summarizes the experience and evidence for the most commonly used digital health technologies aimed at supporting health systems and providers. Key messages from the brief include: Family planning indicators should be incorporated into new and existing digital health and logistics management information systems. More research is needed about when MORE
Digital Health in Demand Generation for RMNCH - A toolkit for how to use digital technologies to increase awareness and interest in Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (RMNCH) products and services. MORE
Digital Health RMNCH Toolkit - This toolkit provides general information on digital health and how it can be used to support various activities along the RMNCH continuum of care. The toolkit may be most useful to individuals unfamiliar with digital health and seeking to learn more information and take note of lessons from implementations around the globe. MORE
e-Registries Initiative - An eRegistry is an organized system for collecting, managing, analyzing, and most importantly, using reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health data to improve women and children’s health. eRegistries are strategically designed to facilitate data use – through accurate and easily available clinical decision support for health care providers, personalized messages to pregnant woman and MORE
Economics of eHealth - mHealth Alliance Publication. This paper provides an outline of key economic and financial questions to pursue in informing in-country eHealth policy and strategy investments. - Washington, DC: mHealth Alliance and Results for Development, 2010. MORE
Electronic Recording and Reporting for Tuberculosis Care and Control - Adopting electronic recording and reporting is not simply about choosing a piece of software: it is also about changing how people work. This is not a simple undertaking. This document introduces the key questions to be considered and illustrates what the questions, options, and recommendations mean in practice by drawing on examples of recent experience from a variety of countries. It is an MORE
eMOCHA (electronic Mobile Open-source Comprehensive Health Application) - A free open-source application, developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education. eMOCHA is designed to assist health programs in developing countries improve provider communication and education, as well as patient care, by coordinating wireless devices with local server-based clinical training and patient care support services. MORE
European Commission eHealth Portal - Portal on health in the EU created as a trustworthy gateway to a wide range of information and data on health-related issues and activities at both European, national and international level. The content is produced by the European Commission, the Member States of the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA), plus EU candidate countries; by international organisations; and by pan-European non MORE
Five Years of Mobilizing for Health Impact: Key Achievements and Future Opportunities - mHealth Alliance Publication. Developed in connection with the mHealth Alliance’s five-year anniversary, this report looks back over the Alliance’s key achievements and offers case studies of important partnerships and projects. It also previews top priorities for the future. December 2013 MORE
Fogarty International Center - The Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health works to advance science for global health, including keeping a running list of mhealth resources. MORE
FormHub - Please note that formhub.org is no longer being maintained. It is still available for use, but will not be supported by the Sustainable Engineering Lab.Author surveys quickly and easily in Excel and have instant access on your Android phone. No advanced technical degree required.Easily distribute your survey on an Android device or on the web. Data connection not needed MORE
Framework for Engagement: Leverging Mobile Technologies for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health - mHealth Alliance Publication. The global community has identified improving maternal, newborn and child health (“mnCh”) as a strategic development priority, embedding the goal within millennium Development goals 4 (reducing child mortality) and 5 (improving mothers’ health). while there has been global progress toward achieving these goals by the target date of 2015, there are still significant MORE
FROM PRINCIPLE TO PRACTICE: Implementing the Principles for Digital Development - The Principles for Digital Development are “living” guidelines that can help development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programs. They are written by and for international development donors, multilateral organizations, and implementing partners, and they are freely available for use by all. The Principles are intended to serve as guidance rather than MORE
FrontlineSMS - Free, open-source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. Once installed, the program enables users to send and receive text messages with groups of people through mobile phones. MORE
Gender and Information Communication Technology (ICT) Survey Toolkit - In low and middle income countries, over 1.7 billion women do not own mobile phones – or, in percentage terms, women are 14 percent less likely to own a mobile phone, compared to men. Furthermore, even if a woman does own a mobile phone, we know that she is far less likely to make full use of its suite of services. Several industry stakeholders have made efforts to understand this gender gap, but MORE
Getting Healthier Around the World: Information and Communication Technologies for Child Health and Development - mHealth Alliance Publication. To celebrate Universal Children’s Day 2013, this report was commissioned by Sesame Workshop and the mHealth Alliance to achieve two objectives: (1) to explore current and future opportunities in the use of mobile phones and other relevant information and communications technologies (ICTs) for improving the health and development of young children as investments for a MORE
Global Digital Health Network Listserv (formerly the mHealth Working Group) - Vision: The Global Digital Health Network envisions a world where technical innovation supports improved health and contributes to better quality, accessibility and sustainability of health services and health outcomes, particularly for underserved populations in low resource environments. Mission: The Global Digital Health Network, formerly the mHealth Working Group created in 2009 MORE
Global Health Media Project - Short, engaging videos to help health workers gain the knowledge and basic skills known to save lives. The videos are distributed free-of-charge to frontline health workers and their communities. Videos can be used online or offline on a range of devices. MORE
Going Native (or Not): Five Questions to Ask Mobile Application Developers - The author of this article -- as a public health researcher and software developer -- advises health professionals on key questions to ask software developers when vetting vendor options to develop a mobile app. The authors offers five questions to ask prospective developers, and also explains the difference between native and non-native apps. Why it helps with planning: The information in MORE
GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) - GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) is a very widely-deployed wireless data service, available now with most GSM networks.GPRS offers throughput rates of up to 40 kbps, enabling mobile handsets to access online services at a similar speed to a dial-up modem, but with the convenience of being able to connect from almost anywhere.GPRS enables people to enjoy advanced, feature-rich data services, MORE
GSMA Mobile for Development - Brings together mobile operator members, the wider mobile industry, and the development community to drive commercial mobile services for underserved people in emerging markets. Access their mHealth resources, mWomen resources, the Mobile for Development Impact research and forum, the Mobile for Development blog and mHealth blog, and upcoming MORE
GSMA mWomen Marketing Handbook - The GSMA mWomen Marketing Handbook, created in partnership with Altai Consulting, is a resource for mobile network operators and other members of the mobile ecosystem to improve their approach to marketing to low-income women in emerging markets. It offers an approach and examples from the mobile industry as well as other industries and the development community.Links:EnglishFrench MORE
GSMA mWomen Research Toolkit - This toolkit contains all research tools used to create ‘Striving and Surviving: Exploring the Lives of Base of the Pyramid Women’, which is a full length research report surveying the wants, needs, aspirations and mobile uses of women living at the base of the pyramid (BoP). The research tools include: (1) Ethnography Observation Guide; (2) Focus Group Discussion Guides; (3) Opinion Leader MORE