Anemia is one of the largest health problems around the world, and a key risk factor for maternal mortality. Approximately one-third of the world’s population is clinically anemic. International agencies and governments are trying hard to provide iron supplementation without any regular screening ...

This poster is about the way in which electronic health records was adopted in the department of Oncoanaesthesia and Palliative Care of All India Institute of medical Sciences, New Delhi. India is a very vast country and AIIMS, New Delhi is the premier medical institute of the country. Established i...

Countries are shifting from paper/legacy systems to optimized, person-centric electronic health record systems (EHRs). With this shift to digitalization at the primary care level, technical partners redundantly translate clinical practice guidelines across multiple EHRs. There are continuous updates...

Keheala is the digital health platform that delivers behavioral interventions across basic feature phones and smartphones in order to improve healthcare access and treatment outcomes for patients in the developing world. Keheala addresses the non-medical drivers of disease - stigma, a lack of inform...

USAID Boresha Afya is a five-year (2016 – 2021) USAID funded program implemented in three geographical zones by Jphiego (Lake and Western), Deloitte Consulting Ltd. (Southern), and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) (North and Central). The overall aim is to improve the quality...

To achieve the UNAIDS goal of 95-95-95, a novel digital health surveillance application was implemented in three northern Zambia provinces by EQUIP/Right to Care-Zambia to improve HIV testing yield. As Zambia progresses towards epidemic control, identifying ART-naïve people living with HIV that do ...

Intelehealth is a digital health platform that enables the delivery of comprehensive primary health care. Frontline Health Workers (FHWs) today are tasked with even more responsibilities than before. Using Intelehealth, FHWs can be guided to provide care for a wide range of services such as maternal...

MiracleFeet will outline key challenges and lessons learned from managing a global deployment of a mobile patient management application used in clubfoot treatment. The application, called CAST, is currently used by 245 users across 25 countries. The app has been well-received by end users and has i...

In 2018- mid 2019, Viamo worked with the Ministry of Health/Rwanda Biomedical Centre and a multinational private pharmaceutical company on an innovative remote training strategy using simple mobile phones that are readily accessible to Community Health Workers. Viamo delivered remote training in the...

Healthy Kids / Brighter Futures (HK/BF) is an organization based in Zambia training teachers to serve as frontline health workers in Zambian schools for their child and adolescent student populations. Having deep relationships with both the Zambian Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, HK/BF...

When your music app asks you to log in to go online, then tells you you need to be in online mode to log in? That’s #offlineworst. In the last 5 years the digital tools that back development have made huge strides in their maturity. Many teams have had the time to invest in modern UI’s, making i...

Many in the digital health field believe that metrics focused on user acquisition are sufficient for determining the success of a digital health intervention, but without active use, most of the time high sign-up or download rates mean nothing. It's tempting to broadcast a higher number, call it goo...

Data driven decisions to improve the quality of Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) care at public health facilities in India has been challenging due to inadequate recording, multiple paper based registers, errors in data recording and reporting, lack of key indicators in service statistics, manual c...

In collaboration with the Maine Medical Center and Ocean Road Cancer Institute in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Dimagi has developed mobile-Palliative Care Link (mPCL), a novel mobile application to improve symptom control and information exchange among specialists and local health workers treating late-...

Since 2016, the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health has been working to digitize the existing family folder information system for Health Extension Workers (HEWs) in Ethiopia. The proposed Electronic Community Health Information System (eCHIS) was envisioned as both a job aid--designed to improve q...

To achieve the UNAIDS goal of 95-95-95, a novel digital health surveillance application was implemented in three northern Zambia provinces by EQUIP/Right to Care-Zambia to improve HIV testing yield. As Zambia progresses towards epidemic control, identifying ART-naïve people living with HIV that do ...

Since mid-2016, the JiVitA Project in rural Bangladesh has been carefully tracking all women, pregnancies and births within a 450 sq km area as part of the mCARE-II randomized controlled trial. As part of this work, 100 Government of Bangladesh community health workers were randomized to either use ...

In 2017 Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, partnered with the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children -Tanzania Mainland and the Ministry of Health Zanzibar to implement the USAID Boresha Afya project in Tanzania’s Lake and Western Zone. Jhpiego implemen...

The mHBS/DHIS2 app is a suite of free, open-source digital health tools, built within the DHIS2 platform, to support healthcare providers in low/middle-income countries (LMICs) as they are educated, trained, and implement evidence-based maternal-newborn health (MNH) initiatives, including: Helping B...

Demo of the Nairobi County Non-Communicable Diseases Quality Management electronic medical system (Nairobi County NCD QM EMS) technology that's building the capacity of healthcare workers to adhere to clinical guidelines in the management of hypertension (HTN) and Diabetes Mellitus (DM). The system ...

Transitioning to digital client level information systems that enable longitudinal health service tracking and decision support for health workers remains a complex and arduous process. An extensive requirements gathering process that details the workflows, data needs, and decision support algorithm...

How might we engage providers in capacity-building and engagement in supporting transgender and/or non-conforming people in healthcare systems globally? transCONNECT is a social franchising program and digital education platform offering HIV care providers capacity and competence in caring for trans...

This session presents experiences from the development and implementation of free, on-demand, interactive voice response (IVR) audio job aids (AJAs) on family planning counseling and service delivery that were created to complement in-person training received by providers in Nigeria. Global evidence...

The Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) strategy was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to reduce morbidity and mortality among under-five children across the globe. Among its core components is enhancing case management skills of frontline health workers (FHWs): IMCI p...

As more organisations begin scaling digital health interventions, it is increasingly important for us as a community to share not just successes, but also lessons learned and ongoing challenges. Over the last 18 months, Marie Stopes International has been developing, maintaining, and embedding a mob...

• Newborn deaths remain unacceptably high in low-income countries despite increased emphasis on newborn resuscitation. Fetal outcomes can be significantly improved by the use of fetal monitoring during labor and delivery, however this requires sophisticated analysis of fetal heart activity pattern...

mBrana, a locally developed mobile stock management tool, has already been deployed in Ethiopia for vaccine management at districts (in nearly 800 districts as of June 2019) by the Federal Ministry of Health and the Ethiopian Pharmaceuticals Supply Agency with the support of John Snow Inc. The syste...

Every two minutes at least one woman dies from complications experienced during pregnancy or childbirth, and 20 families experience a stillbirth or the death of a newborn child. Most of these deaths occur in the 24 hours around delivery, and most are preventable.Poor quality of facility-based care i...

The introduction of digital health interventions requires re-examining existing workflows and operations in health facilities in order to ensure that interventions are used efficiently. Finding the optimal integration of an intervention into a facility workflow requires that an intervention is desig...

Objective: To determine the role of an mHealth intervention, Nighedaasht, in empowering Community Midwives (CMWs) and improving Maternal and Neonatal Child Health (MNCH) outcomes in rural settings. Methodology: The Nighedaasht mHealth application has been implemented in the following districts in no...