Guidance for Investing in Digital Health - Digital technologies are increasingly underpinning almost all aspects of daily life, including health care. The overarching goal is to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly universal health coverage, by investing in digital health. Health care systems have begun to embrace the transformative power of information and communication technology to spur better informed decisions by MORE
Guidelines for Reporting of Health Interventions Using Mobile Phones: Mobile Health (mHealth) Evidence Reporting and Assessment (mERA) Checklist - To improve the completeness of reporting of mobile health (mHealth) interventions, the WHO mHealth Technical Evidence Review Group developed the mHealth evidence reporting and assessment (mERA) checklist. The development process for mERA consisted of convening an expert group to recommend an appropriate approach, convening a global expert review MORE
Health COMpass - The Health COMpass is an interactive and collaborative resource for high quality tools and project examples to build capacity in social and behavior change communication (SBCC), powered by the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHU-CCP). The Health COMpass Focus Package on Information and MORE
Health Informatics Building Blocks (HIBBs) Program - The Health Informatics Building Blocks (HIBBs) Program seeks to build workforce capacity in resource constrained environments to plan, develop, manage, and use health information and communications technology (HICT) applications, with the goal of improving the delivery of health care. With an initial focus on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the Program works with local partners to develop, implement, MORE
Health Information as Health Care - mHealth Alliance Publication. The role of mobiles in unlocking health data and wellness: A discussion paper by the United Nations Foundation, Vodafone Foundation, and mHealth Alliance. - Washington, DC: UN Foundation-Vodafone Foundation Partnership, mHealth Alliance, February 2011. MORE
HealthE Africa - HealthE Africa is a peer assistance network that aims to strengthen existing digital health partnerships and foster new collaborations in Africa. The community connects programme needs with African technology experts and service providers, and so strengthens local and regional digital health.HealthE Africa aims to create a more effective and efficient market for digital health services so that the MORE
HealthEnabled Monthly Newsletter - Join HealthEnabled's monthly newsletter list! Email their team with updates, projects, resources by the 20th of each month for inclusion in the next newsletter. MORE
HealthEnabled Newsletter - HealthEnabled is a South Africa-based non profit organization that helps national governments in low- and middle-income countries make short- and long-term decisions to integrate life-saving digital health solutions into their health systems. The organisation provides the necessary expertise, experience, and connections to help governments integrate digital solutions into their health systems MORE
HealthEnabled: Common mHealth Questions - What is mHealth? Why is it important? Is it appropriate for my project? Where do I start to learn about mHealth? This document will guide you through some of the most commonly asked questions about mHealth and direct you to additional sources of information. MORE
HealthPhone - Provides health videos in multiple languages for free download to families in rural, low-income communities. Users can build a personal reference library on low-cost mobile phones. Available in real time. No signal or connection is required. MORE
HealthPhone - HealthPhone™ is a video reference library and guide to better health and nutrition practices, for families and communities, including the illiterate, in their language, distributed on mobile phones.What every health worker, family and community has a right to know.What is HealthPhone? • Over 2,500 videos in our library • Free Downloads for phones, tablets, PCs • Customised apps, MORE
HealthPhone Mobile App: Nutrition Handbook for the Family - The Nutrition Handbook for the Family provides practical guidance for good nutrition and health practices. We hope that these apps will contribute to improving the nutritional status of people, especially women and young children, by increasing their knowledge through group sharing and discussion promoted by frontline health workers and other organized groups and communities.These apps are adapted MORE
Hesperian - Digital tools for health promotion, designed for people with limited computer or Internet access. Includes a safe pregnancy and birth app designed for use on smartphones. MORE
HingX: Health Ingenuity Exchange - HingX is a not-for-profit foundation responsible for the development, support, and evolution of a community-driven collaboration platform and related ecosystem that brings together reusable tools, guidelines, and personal experience in an accessible and user-friendly atmosphere. It facilitates the productive exchange of such material in a way that propels the development of health information MORE
Human-Centered Design for Social Innovation - 2013, Acumen and IDEO.org, Human-Centered Design for Social Innovation is a five week course that will introduce you to the concepts of human-centered design and help you use the design process to create innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions for social change. No prior design experience necessary. See also: IDEO’s Human-Centered Design Toolkit MORE
Human-Centered Design Toolkit - IDEO, in collaboration with nonprofit groups ICRW and Heifer International, developed the Human-Centered Design Toolkit to help international staff and volunteers understand a community’s needs in new ways, find innovative solutions to meet those needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind. The free kit walks users through the human-centered design process and supports MORE
ICT4CHW Google Group - Information and communications technology for community health workers. MORE
ICTWorks - ICTworks™, hosted by Inveneo, is a resource for sharing and expanding knowledge on appropriate information and communication technologies (ICT) and the implementation processes that can make them sustainable in rural and underserved communities in low- and middle-income countries. Subscribe to the ICTWorks newsletter on the site's homepage. MORE
Identity in a Digital Age: Infrastructure for Inclusive Development - Identity in a Digital Age: Infrastructure for Inclusive Development offers guidance on how to address the systemic problems of today’s digital ID (DID) systems, while critically assessing how emerging technologies will shape the future of DID. MORE
iHeed Animation Library - Collection of animations created by established producers and animators specifically for health education, training, and awareness. MORE
Improving Health Communications in Kenya: A Feasibility Study on Engaging Frontline Healthcare Workers in Using Mobile Technology - The Internews Center for Innovation & Learning commissioned a study to explore the potential for community health workers and traditional birth attendants in Kenya to use an interactive mobile platform to improve the dissemination of health information in their communities. Internews’ Kenya office and the research team jointly determined two initial research sites to capture data from two MORE
InfoDev Mobile Innovation Program - The InfoDev Mobile Innovation Program supports growth-oriented mobile apps businesses, by (1) enabling entrepreneurship in the mobile industry through venture incubation and acceleration; (2) building mobile innovation communities of entrepreneurs, investors, partners, and mentors; and (3) researching the app economy of emerging and frontier markets. Their established network of mobile labs (mLabs MORE
Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Harnessing the Public Health Skill Set in a New Era of Health Reforms and Investment - By: Elham Hatef, MD, MPH; Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD; Alain B. Labrique, PhDThe Context for Innovation and EntrepreneurshipThe implementation of the Affordable Care Act and major reforms of the health system have resulted in rapid proliferation of innovation-driven start-up companies in the health sector.1 These start-ups typically focus on the application of new MORE
Integrating Mobiles into Development Projects - The primary audience of this handbook is USAID staff, although much of the content is relevant to anyone interested in integrating mobiles into development projects more effectively. Most of the examples highlighted are from Southeast Asia, although the relevance of the content is global. Since the mobiles for development space is evolving rapidly, the handbook is intended to equip readers with a MORE