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...

‘Online SBCC Materials Approval (OSMA)’ is an online software application(http://osma.mohfw.gov.bd) designed to digitize and simplify the activities of the IEC Technical Committee constituted for approval of quality HPN SBCC materials assuring the compatibility of policy and social values, infor...

Following a routine health information system (RHIS) performance assessment in 2015, MEASURE Evaluation started working in Mali to reinforce its local health information system (SLIS) and hospital information system (SIH). The 2018 Performance of Routine Information System Management (PRISM) evaluat...

The Special Olympics Healthy Athletes program has been offering free health screenings and education to Special Olympics athletes for more than 20 years. During that time the organization has aggregated an immense and unique data set about the athletes which compete at their events globally. However...

MEASURE Evaluation has developed a One Health electronic platform in Burkina Faso, in partnership with three ministries, to track, prevent, and respond to zoonotic and epizootic disease outbreaks. Using DHIS 2 tracker, the platform does not aim to focus on data aggregation, but instead translate not...

UnEMR (The Free & Uncomplicated Electronic Medical Record App, https://www.unemr.net) is our response to potential health disparities that can be brought about by the technological divide between those who can afford to purchase and maintain an EMR system, and those who cannot (usually independent h...

Despite relative success of the Malawi immunization program, Save the Children in collaboration with the Expanded Programme of Immunisation (EPI) Unit and Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) Unit of the Ministry of Health, identified low visibility of EPI logistics data and a lack of...

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...

MEASURE Evaluation’s technical assistance to Burkina Faso’s Ministry of Health in strengthening its routine health information systems (RHIS) began in 2018. In September 2018, MEASURE conducted a Performance of Routine Information System Management (PRISM) assessment to evaluate the strengths an...

Patients medical records have been stored and secured in clinic, hospital and major trusted custodian company. While the current process has been proved efficient, accessing and sharing among patients are still facing its difficulty. Public has its concerns over patient’s privacy. There have been ...

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is the largest University in Latin America. The Department of Biomedical Informatics of the School of Medicine of UNAM was created on September 2010 to teach the subjects of Biomedical Informatics I and II, in the 2nd and 3rd semester of the career...

Delays to access health services the major challenge for towards institutional delivery in most isolated villages. Other delays are identified as decision making on accessing health service, distances and infrastructures from community to facilities as well as health services provision at the facili...

Africa is expected to become one of the fastest growing economic regions in the world. As income grows, the demand for livestock and livestock products also will increase. These developments are likely to spur dramatic intensification and expansion of livestock production. But rapid growth also pose...

This session will highlight PATH’s experience using digital technologies to address the TB epidemic in Tanzania, Ukraine, and India and will provide evidence and insights to inform global policy and enable further technology improvement and innovation. For Tanzania, we will present TAMBUA TB appâ€...

OpenLMIS is an open source electronic logistics management information system (LMIS) built to manage health commodity supply chains in low- and middle-income countries. OpenLMIS is a growing initiative to provide a full-feature electronic LMIS solution to Ministries of Health and other global partne...

MEASURE Evaluation’s technical assistance to the Cote d’Ivoire Ministry of Health in strengthening its routine health information systems (RHIS) dates back to 2004. MEASURE’s two Performance of Routine Information System Management (PRISM) assessments in 2008 and 2012 subsequently led to RHIS ...

A cyber security incident is inevitable for any technology platform. It is time to stop thinking in terms of "if" and start thinking "when," even for medical teams doing good in the world. Approaching cyber security in terms of "when" encourages us to develop cyber security policies and procedures t...

Kenya has a wealth of mature health information systems (HIS) used across the country with the majority of the systems having been in existence for at least 3 years. The health sector make use of these systems to collect clinical, financial and performance indicators. Key among the systems are the D...

Reliable access to contraceptives is a key component to empower women, reduce maternal mortality, and build stronger communities. To date, 21.4 million women of reproductive age in developing countries who want to prevent pregnancy are not using modern contraceptive methods. While many primary healt...

DHIS2 was rolled out nationally in Angola during 2018, and all 162 Ministry of Health (MoH) municipalities are now able to directly capture monthly reports from facilities in the national DHIS2 instance. However, provisioning municipal offices with internet access proved to be a challenge. Although ...