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The Role of mHealth in the Fight Against Tuberculosis - mHealth Alliance Publication. To bring about a step change in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), we need new tools and simple, affordable innovations to better detect people suffering from this disease. Could mHealth be a solution? A new paper from the mHealth Alliance and Stop TB Partnership explores this topic.  Washington, DC and Geneva: mHealth Alliance and Stop TB Partnership, May 2012 MORE

Total Cost of Ownership Model for CommCare - This is a Total Cost of Ownership Model tool that Dimagi created to help organizations estimate the total cost of adopting CommCare or other mobile technologies for their community health workers. This planning tool provides a budget for adopting CommCare over five years. Why it helps with planning: Excel workbook that serves as a model for how to budget for an mHealth implementation. MORE

mHealth Working Group Project Inventory - In an effort to document the mHealth landscape worldwide, especially among implementing organizations, the mHealth Working Group hosts an online inventory of projects. The intent is to help implementing partners and stakeholders know which organizations are working on mHealth projects in which countries in order to support collaboration and maximize efforts. As of August 2013, the inventory MORE

The GSMA mHealth Tracker - The GSMA Mobile for Development Impact mHealth Tracker is a customized tool that collates mobile health products and services around the globe. It tracks solutions in the planning phase as well as those that have been commercially deployed. Search for mobile-enabled products and services in the world, using geographic and sector based filters. View the results on an interactive map or summary MORE

NetHope Solutions Center - The NetHope Solutions Center is a space where NGOs and like-minded organizations can find ICT and cloud solutions to a full range of business problems and program challenges. Explore collateral for ICT use in development across all sectors, enterprises and programs, the Solutions Center is a valuable source for education, discovery, collaboration, shared learning and documented impact. NetHope MORE

Online Selection Assistant, NOMAD - NOMAD offers a free Online Selection Assistant to connect your organization or project with one of 24 mobile data collection solutions. NOMAD also includes a secondment service comprised of experienced field personnel who are ready to deploy to train your organization how to use mobile data collection technology or to support in the collection of such data. NOMAD specializes in MORE

Digital Health Country Dashboards - The HealthE Africa team has been working with in country experts to create a series of country dashboards summarising the state of digital health in specific African countries. These dashboards are intended to be dynamic and are updated as and when new information becomes available.If you have information that should be added to one of the dashboards, or would like to assist with developing MORE

Inventory of Information and Communication Technology Solutions for Supply Chains - mHealth Alliance Publication. Two recent trends provide new ways to improve supply chain capabilities: 1) the variety of information and communication technologies (ICT) now available to support commodity management and 2) increasing access to mobile and wireless connectivity. Supply chain managers are shifting away from paper-based supply chain management systems and exploring appropriate MORE

mHealth Support Tools for Improving the Performance of Frontline Health Workers: An Inventory and Analytical Review - mHealth Alliance Publication. The UN Commission on Life-saving Commodities for Women and Children (UNCoLSC) is interested in exploring how mHealth can support the achievement of Recommendation 9, namely improving the performance and accountability of Frontline Health Workers (FLHWs). In this report, the mHealth Alliance outlines the findings from a three-pronged approach, including: 1) MORE

mHealth and Neonatal Resuscitation: Opportunities to Increase Adoption and Utilization of Neonatal Resuscitation Equipment, Using Mobile Health in Tanzania - mHealth Alliance Publication. The mHealth Alliance has undertaken a series of research efforts to identify opportunities for mobile technology to support the goals of the United Nations Commission for Life Saving Commodities for Women and Children (UNCoLSC). In February 2014, a literature review and field visit to Tanzania was conducted to understand: the scope of birth asphyxia in Tanzania; the MORE

Springboard for Health Communication - Springboard for Health Communication is a space for sharing health communication knowledge, experiences, and resources. It supports and nurtures regional communities of health communication practitioners, scholars, and policy makers. Members can share and tap into existing expertise and resources, develop their own health communication capacity, and discover or contribute innovative solutions. MORE

GSMA mWomen Research Toolkit - This toolkit contains all research tools used to create ‘Striving and Surviving: Exploring the Lives of Base of the Pyramid Women’, which is a full length research report surveying the wants, needs, aspirations and mobile uses of women living at the base of the pyramid (BoP). The research tools include: (1) Ethnography Observation Guide; (2) Focus Group Discussion Guides; (3) Opinion Leader 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

mBCC Field Guide: A Resource for Developing Mobile Behavior Change Programs - This resource helps users guide the design of mobile applications for health and provides insights about what works in mobile behavior change communication (mBCC). Compiled by Abt Associates, the guide examines what is known about the power of mobile communication tools to influence health behaviors for consumers and health care providers. Why it helps with planning: This is a planning MORE

Mobile Technology Handbook - This handbook is a comprehensive resource for getting started with mobile data collection. It provides guidance on how to develop a mobile data collection strategy, how to compare and select mobile platforms, and case studies on how mobile technology has been used for data collection in development programs. You can use the handbook as a reference or make it the foundation for a workshop to spread MORE

National eHealth Strategy Toolkit - The National eHealth Strategy Toolkit is an expert, practical guide that provides governments, their ministries and stakeholders with a solid foundation and method for the development and implementation of a national eHealth vision, action plan and monitoring framework. All countries, whatever their level of development, can adapt the Toolkit to suit their own circumstances. The Toolkit is a MORE

mHealth Field Guide for Newborn Health - This guide explains how mHealth serves newborn health through referral and tracking of mothers and infants, decision support for CHWs, CHW supervision, scheduling and tracking postpartum and postnatal visits, and teaching and counseling for mothers and families. Case studies are provided from Afghanistan, India, Malawi and Indonesia. Links to resources for planning, implementation, and evaluation MORE

Beginning with the end in mind: Planning pilot projects and other programmatic research for successful scaling up - This short ExpandNet/WHO guidance document, which is a working draft, provides 12 recommendations and a checklist to help build scaling up considerations into projects from the outset. In this way one can anticipate and plan ahead for eventual scale up from the earliest stages of designing a pilot, demonstration or other operations research intervention. Why it helps with planning:  MORE

K4Health's mHealth Basics: Introduction to Mobile Technology for Health, USAID Global Health eLearning Course - This course is a self-paced three-hour eLearning course that provides an introduction to the emerging field of mHealth and an overview of best practices for mHealth solution development. The focus of the course is on mHealth applications commonly used in low- and middle-income country contexts. The course covers the definition of mHealth, its potential uses, benefits and limitations as well MORE

Digital Health Atlas - Digital Health Atlas aims to strengthen the value and impact of digital health investments, improve coordination, and facilitate institutionalization and scale.Digital Health Atlas offers technologists, implementers, financial investors, and governments a platform of tools and guidance to improve the use of digital innovations for health. Leverages the WHO mHealth Assessment and Planning for Scale MORE

Mobile Technology in Support of Frontline Health Workers: A comprehensive overview of the landscape, knowledge gaps and future directions - Mobile Technology in Support of Frontline Health Workers: A comprehensive overview of the landscape, knowledge gaps and future directions. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions are rapidly gaining popularity for their potential to improve public health, and many developing countries see them as an important resource for frontline health workers MORE

NetHope Academy - NetHope Academy provides technology training and resources to international development organizations. The academy's goal is to help improve staff capacity and productivity by strengthening crucial information and communication technology skills. Specifically, the NetHope Academy:Helps ICT Professionals explore career paths, assess IT skills, and develop learning plans to tailor their skills to MORE

TechChange | mHealth: Mobile Phones for Public Health Online Course - TechChange and the mHealth Alliance offer a four-week online certificate course on mHealth: Mobile Phones for Public Health. The course examines how mobile technologies are revolutionizing approaches to patient care and management, point-of-care support for health workers, health education, diagnostics, and supply chain management and logistics. Through case studies, guest expert MORE

mHealth Evidence - mHealthEvidence.org is designed to bring together the world’s literature on mHealth effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and program efficiency. The database serves as the leading resource for cataloging and categorizing mHealth evidence. The site contains both peer-reviewed and grey literature on mHealth activities that are either proactively identified or included in the database based on MORE

OpenMRS - A community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system platform. Designed specifically to respond to those actively building and managing health systems in the developing world, where AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria afflict the lives of millions.The mission of OpenMRS is to improve health care delivery in resource-constrained environments by coordinating a global community MORE