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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

CORE Group's mHealth Interest Group - CORE Group convened this "mHealth community of practice”  in response to interest in community-level applications that can increase quality, equity, scale, and/or sustainability of health efforts. As part of CORE Group's larger Community Health Network, this interest group is a place where ideas, experience, and expertise converge. Health program implementers and researchers work 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

mHealth Knowledge - mHealth Knowledge connects health professionals to the people, products, and ideas that they need to do their mHealth work effectively. This site features the mHealth collaborations and products created and maintained by the USAID-funded Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project. Through mHealth Knowledge, one can learn mHealth basics; access the latest evidence about 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

mHealth Projects: Examples from Low- and Middle-Income Countries - The Royal Tropical Institute maintains a list of mHealth project examples in resource-poor settings. The examples, which are meant to illustrate different applications of mobile technology in health care, range from projects in the planning phase to pilot studies to fully implemented programs. The table can be sorted by project title, region, country, or application area. Application areas include MORE

CycleTel™: Bringing a market-based mindset to mHealth - CycleTel™ is an innovative mHealth product: a fertility awareness-based family planning method delivered to users via SMS.  The Global mHealth Initiative spoke with Alexis Ettinger and Nicki Ashcroft from the Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) to learn more about this USAID-funded program. The article covers the following topics: -What is CycleTel? -Why MORE

Mutual Value, Mutual Gain: Best Practices from Successful Social Sector Partnerships with Mobile Network Operators - For operators to take advantage of the revenue potential found in underserved communities in emerging markets, the formation of efficient and effective partnerships between operators and social sector organizations that have long-standing networks and expertise in serving rural and marginalized populations is crucial. This Insights paper details best practices in pursuing, negotiating, designing MORE

The Economics of eHealth and mHealth - As a first step to developing the investment case for mHealth, this article outlines some of the key economic and financial questions that need to be answered in developing in-country eHealth investments. The proposed questions focus on the costs of eHealth infrastructure; regulatory structures that provide incentives at different levels of the health delivery system to encourage investment in, MORE

Barriers and Gaps Affecting mHealth in Low and Middle Income Countries - The mHealth Alliance commissioned an in‐depth exploration of the policy barriers and research gaps facing mHealth. This White Paper, written by a team of researchers at the Center for Global Health and Economic Development at The Earth Institute, Columbia University, examines and synthesizes the existing mHealth literature to assess the current state of mHealth knowledge and identify barriers and MORE

CONNECT/NHIN - A software solution that lets federal agencies securely link their existing health information technology systems to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), an information highway for health data exchange that connects more than 20 federal agencies.CONNECT is an open source software solution that supports health information exchange – both locally and at the national level. CONNECT uses MORE

WHO Global Observatory for eHealth - Improving the health of women and children is a global health imperative, reflected in two of the most compelling Millennium Development Goals which seek specifically to reduce maternal and infant deaths by 2015. This joint report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), based on a 64-country survey, demonstrates - as never before in such detail - 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

DataWinners - Data Collection, Team Communication, Better Decision Making: DataWinners is the first completely integrated, mobile data collection and communication service that uses the equipment you already have. 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

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

Medic Mobile - Medic Mobile was created for people delivering care in hard-to-reach areas. Our software toolkit includes text messaging tools, SIM card applications, and an offline-first mobile and web application. It supports any language and works with or without connectivity. Our tools run on basic phones, smartphones, tablets, and computers, supporting people doing critical work in communities, health 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

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

Mobile Money for Health Case Study Compendium - Globally, 2.5 billion people are “unbanked,” lacking access to formal financial services. As a result, roughly one third of the world’s population is forced to rely on cash transactions or informal financial systems, which can often be unsafe, inconvenient, and expensive. Among the unbanked, however, a billion have access to a mobile phone, and mobile-based financial services are MORE

TechChange Course: Technology for Data Visualization and Analysis - Are you analyzing your data efficiently and displaying them effectively? Nearly all of us are responsible for producing reports for our colleagues, supervisors, and clients. Good data visualization is essential to analyzing your data quickly and with the greatest value. Course DescriptionThe importance of data visualization has become apparent in the current era of ‘big data’ that we live in. MORE

Improving Health Communications in Kenya: A Feasibility Study on Engaging Frontline Healthcare Workers in Using Mobile Technology - The Internews Center for Innovation & Learning commissioned a study to explore the potential for community health workers and traditional birth attendants in Kenya to use an interactive mobile platform to improve the dissemination of health information in their communities. Internews’ Kenya office and the research team jointly determined two initial research sites to capture data from two MORE

Medic Mobile Design Cards - Medic Mobile developed a set of 50 “design cards," hand-drawn by Senior Designer, Dianna Kane. Each card has a drawing of different components of the healthcare system: community members, healthcare workers, places, technology, and actions involved—such as visits to clinics. These cards are a visual and tactile way to engage people in role play to help facilitate understanding of Medic Mobile MORE