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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

TechChange Course: Instructional Design with Articulate (In-Person Workshop) - Do you want to learn how to build online learning modules like the pros? This one-day workshop will help you advance your Articulate abilities and allow you to do new things you never thought possible with the software! TechChange has used Storyline (and now Articulate 360) to author dozens of engaging and beautiful online courses for clients including UNICEF, USAID, World Bank, Hilton Hotels, 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

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

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

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

mHealth Data Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality: Guidelines for Program Implementers and Policymakers - mHealth technology comprises many layers that can affect data security, privacy, and confidentiality throughout the data life cycle. These layers include national and organizational policy; technology used in data collection, management, storage, and use; as well as user behavior. Each layer requires careful analysis to identify and protect potential vulnerabilities. The sensitivity of health data MORE

TechChange Course: Introduction to Excel for Data Visualization - Measuring and communicating the impact of a project or program often relies on effective data analysis and visualization. In this course, you will learn how to effectively use Excel to create beautiful static and interactive visualizations.Course DescriptionExcel offers an interface most people are familiar with, as well as a valuable set of features that can be utilized to meet a wide range of MORE

TechChange Course: Tech for Data Visualization (In Person Workshop) - Do you want to get better at visualizing your program data? This one-day workshop is designed to teach you the basic techniques and tools of data visualization through a series of interactive activities and hands-on demos.Workshop MethodologyThe workshop is divided into three parts:Part 1: Building a foundation: Participants will begin by exploring popular theorists and approaches data MORE

The Aga Khan Development Network eHealth Resource Centre: Online Certificate Course in eHealth - AKDN eHRC is offering a year-long online certificate course in eHealth. This course is designed to build the eHealth capacities of professionals working in the health sector. It focuses on helping the audience understand the concepts of eHealth, implement eHealth solutions and address the challenges around eHealth service delivery, primarily in low- and-middle income countries. Course MORE