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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage Using Data Analytics to Monitor Health Provider Payment Systems Toolkit - The Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN) launched a new interactive toolkit, which offers step-by-step guidance on using data analytics to monitor heath provider payment systems and track whether payment systems are supporting health system objectives toward achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC).An effective provider payment system is a critical stepping stone to MORE
Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit - Mobile phones are much more than just a tool for making calls.Increasingly they are the primary way people across the world access the internet. Whilst the internet can provide a wide range of benefits to the user, it requires specific skills and knowledge to use a mobile phone effectively. This means that people who lack the skills and understanding are unable to access these life-enhancing MORE
Scaling Digital Health in Developing Markets: Opportunities and Recommendations for Mobile Operators and Other Stakeholders - Digital health is taking its first steps in some African, Asian and Latin American countries. The number of initiatives is growing, with a widespread opinion that digital health can help address key healthcare issues if it reaches scale. This report by GSMA Intelligence provides an overview of the healthcare landscape in developing countries and assesses the role MORE
The Global List of All ICT4D Meetings and Meetups - ICT Works comprehensive list of ICT4D meetings and meetups hosted around the world. MORE
WHO Monitoring and Evaluating Digital Health Intervention: A Practical Guide to Conducting Research and Assessment - From those just beginning their digital journey to more sophisticated project teams, this Toolkit aims to continue to advance the quality of monitoring and evaluation activities within digital health and contribute to more evidence-based planning, implementation and investment. This resource aims to serve as a reference document for those implementing digital health interventions, who MORE
WHO Monitoring and Evaluating Digital Health Interventions: A Practical Guide to Conducting Research and Assessment - This resource on Monitoring and Evaluating Digital Health Interventions provides step-wise guidance to improve the quality and value of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts in the context of digital health interventions, also commonly referred to as mHealth or eHealth interventions. This Guide is intended for implementers and researchers of digital health activities, as well as policy MORE