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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 - 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