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Rock Weekly: The Latest Digital Healthcare News - The most popular newsletter in health tech. Join your 39K digital health friends and sign up.Stay on top of the latest and greatest stories in digital health, across healthcare news and tech.Get sweet perks, like free passes to the best events in digital health and flash sales on productsGet the inside scoop on Rock Health newsFrom the latest in healthcare news and technology, from mobile health 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

ZEPRS: Zambian Electronic Perinatal Medical Records System - Guides medical personnel through Zambian standard of perinatal careConcept of “flows” within the system and related data (user driven)Shared terminal usageUsage of ZEPRS data for quality assurance and supervision (export to SPSS, SAS..)Patient confidentialityAdaptability/Extensibility of ZEPRS system – open source (HIV/ART, Safe Motherhood)Using mini applications to build 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

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

TechChange Course: Mobile Data Solutions - This two hour interactive on-demand online course developed by the Global Development Lab at USAID, FHI360, and TechChange explores how mobile technologies can be used to more effectively collect and disseminate data in order to better meet development goals. Access this full course for free from anywhere with an internet connection and anytime no matter your time zone.Course DescriptionMobile MORE

TechChange Course: OpenDRI An Introduction to Open Data for Environmental Resilience - This 30 minute course covers the principles of the Open Data for Resilience Initiative.In 2011, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) launched the Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) to apply the concepts of the global open data movement to the challenges of reducing vulnerability to natural hazards and the impacts of climate change. OpenDRI supports World Bank MORE

MAMA: Technical Platforms for Mobile Messaging - Choosing the right technical platform to support mobile health programming can seem like a daunting task. There are a lot of platforms out there, and questions of scalability, cost, ease of use, and more can be difficult to navigate. We’ve profiled a number of technical platforms for you to look through and discover. Where possible, we’ve tried to include hands-on video walkthroughs of 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

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

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

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

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

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

TechChange Course: Mobiles for International Development - Course DescriptionThe mobile phone is rapidly bringing communication to the most remote areas of the world. NGOs, governments and companies alike are beginning to realize the potential of this ubiquitous tool to address a variety of global challenges. This four-week online professional development certificate course, which has been featured in the New York Times and Fast Company, will explore 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

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

WHO Handbook for the Use of Digital Technologies to Support Tuberculosis Medication Adherence - TB patients and health-care providers are surrounded by information and communication technologies. They will be using these tools increasingly to obtain better care. However, in doing so they are often faced with basic questions, such as: Which application is best suited to my circumstances? What is the evidence for effectiveness? How do I implement it? Who will pay?This handbook aims to address MORE

Unique Health Identifier Assessment Toolkit - Unique health identifiers are important for improving quality and continuum of care, strengthening surveillance of communicable diseases, eradicating diseases, and optimizing provider and payer transactions in health financing schemes. When they can be uniquely identified, wherever and whenever they interact with different health service providers, patients have a 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

Towards a Framework for Realising the Benefits of eHealth in South Africa - The South African national eHealth strategy (2012/2013–2016/2017) includes a strategic priority focused on realisation of benefits. The strategy states that “[s]pecific actions are required to ensure that eHealth implementations deliver on their promise and that anticipated benefits are realised for all stakeholders.”The specific activity highlighted within this priority was the development of “…a MORE

TechChange Course: Introduction to Mobile Money - This on-demand online course, developed and delivered by the Mobile Solutions team at USAID, QED, and TechChange, includes over 2 hours of dynamic content informed by the best thinking in the field. Access this full course for free from anywhere with an internet connection and anytime no matter your time zone.Course DescriptionMobile money has the power to do for entrepreneurship what commercial MORE

TechChange Course: RapidPro Essentials - TechChange teamed up with UNICEF's innovation team to build this interactive online course on how to get started with RapidPro. RapidPro is a new powerful open source software that allows you to easily build and scale mobile-based applications and services from anywhere in the world. Access this full course for free from anywhere with an internet connection and anytime no matter your time zone MORE

Norweigan Institute of Public Health eRegistries - 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.We believe that better use of health information results in better decisions and, ultimately, in better health. eRegistries are strategically designed to facilitate data use – through accurate and 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