USAID DISCOVER - Health Project is a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project that provides direct health service delivery and socially markets health products. It is implemented by JSI. The project provides free public sector integrated HIV, FP/RH and MCH services t...

INTRODUCTION OF SESSION The World Health Organization has prioritized the need to address possible barriers to the use of electronic medical records prior to its implementation. A major barrier is the user’s unwillingness to adopt the system. Most studies done in developing countries are focused o...

The impact of absenteeism on health system operations cannot be overstated. Beyond the objective waste of scarce government resources on paying health workers who do not show up at their assigned duty stations, the psychological impact of absenteeism is far-reaching and insidious. Otherwise hard-wor...

The main objective of this poster session will be to show how the “Be Data Driven” principle from the Principles of Digital Development was a key central strategy used for the conceptualization and development of the integrated information system for the monitoring of the contraceptive insurance...

Lung cancer is the most incident and mortal of all types of cancer for both genders. The rates of this disease continue increasing rapidly year after year. Approximately 80% of the newly diagnosed lung cancers are non-small cell lung cancers. Early diagnosis of any type of cancer rise the patient pr...

Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) is a neonatal resuscitation training and educational program which has rolled out in 80+ low/middle-income countries (LMICs). From 2012 - present, a multi-disciplinary team of investigators from Indiana and Moi Universities, in collaboration with key partners, has develo...

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-...

Working largely on site, teams from the University of Michigan independently collaborated with clinicians and administrators at two large, public teaching hospitals in Kumasi and Accra, Ghana in 2018 and 2019 to propose mobile payments options for emergency department (ED) patients and their familie...

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...

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...

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...

Currently, information about immunization is collected at facility and community through two separate forms and entered separately into the national reporting platform with attendant burden for data entry and potential for double count. This two data entry and management are managed by two governmen...

Maintaining HIV patients on treatment is vital to bringing the disease into epidemic control and achieving “90-90-90”- the global objective of 90% of HIV+ individuals aware of their status, 90% of diagnosed patients on sustained treatment and 90% of treated patients achieving viral suppression. ...

The WHO has been advocating for task shifting and task sharing in human resource-limited health systems. However, there is limited evidence of task shifting or task sharing in the management of electronic health records (EHR). We implemented an EHR system at 10 rural health centres in Malawi, where ...

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...

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...

The session will provide an opportunity to understand KT’s innovative solutions such as a mobile-based disease surveillance and alert system, Global Epidemic Prevention Platform(GEPP) and KT’s future endeavors including AI based health monitoring and prediction systems such as Flu Tracker and Fi...

Background: Our poster presents the implementation and results of several divergent approaches to health record linkage in Botswana’s National Data Warehouse (NDW). Botswana’s NDW integrates health records originating in several hundred health care facilities captured by a variety of mechanisms,...

• The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), a global consortium with public-private funding, has delivered vital health information to pregnant women, new mothers and their families through SMS text messages and interactive voice calls (IVR) using their mobile phones their mobile phones with...

The rapidly-growing number and popularity of digital health related apps, in particular fertility apps, present an opportunity to meet the reproductive needs of women throughout different life-stages. Fertility apps claim to identify the fertile window of the menstrual cycle and provide women with g...

Typically during the price estimation stage for global health supply chain initiatives, often there are many unknown variables that are needed for the estimation of freight costs for various shipping legs and lanes. These unknowns often drive poor price estimates which can lead to budget overruns la...

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...

Allied World Healthcare (AWH) radically transforms service delivery models for last-mile primary care services in the Philippines and Cambodia. We train members of the community to use offline-first apps to become healthcare navigators (collecting data, running events, providing support and connecti...

Approximately 3 million children younger than 5 years living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) die each year from treatable clinical conditions such as pneumonia, dehydration secondary to diarrhea, and malaria. A majority of these deaths could be prevented with early clinical assessments a...

In response to the huge maternal and newborn mortality indices, the Health and Human Services Secretariat with support of WHO set out to implement a Quality of Care (QOC) initiative for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH). Two problems with significant outcomes were targeted namely; Administra...

There is a distinct lack of private health sector data availability in Tanzania. In order for the government to make fully informed decisions about commodities and services, both public and private sector contributions need to be considered. Private sector data is integral to programming and decisio...

The rapid and vast proliferation of mobile technology has revolutionized the ability of health systems to achieve better outcomes, including improved geographic monitoring of immunization services. Expanded access to new technologies including Global Information System (GIS), and online mapping tool...

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 ...

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...