Public Health Informatics in Africa Examples from IDRC supported projects in Africa By Mrs Ramata Molo Thioune

Interoperability Standards:The Key to Mobile Data by Dr. Mark Spohr

The only slide show missing (eHealth Policy – Issues, Legal and Ethical) was unavailable for download.

Standardization and Interoperability by Dr. Najeeb Al-Shorbaji

Quality and safety of health information on the Internet by Gunther Eysenbach

E-Government and E-Health Strategies by Mrs. Veronica Boateng

Addressing e-health policies and strategies in the Commonwealth by Dr Joseph Amuzu

ICT Infrastructure in Africa and the Uptake of eHealth by Mr. Brahima Sanou

eHealth : The Promise of ICT for Improving health in Africa by Prof. S. Yunkap

Electronic Health Records Global Perspectives by H. Stephen Lieber

Statement by the President of the Economic and Social Council H.E. Ambassador Sylvie Lucas

Address by his excellency the vice president of the Republic of Ghana

Statement by Mr. Thomas Stelzer, Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations Department of Economic and Soc…

1. Ziedan Abdo Zeidan from Sudan is talking about the 10 e’s in eHealth (sounds familiar – forgets to credit the source).
2. Newspaper article (Daily Graphic) about #ehealthghana conference.

3. Antoine Geissbuhler talks about elearning / RAFT project in Africa – impressive!
4. Claire Thwaites from UN Foundation talks about mHealth for Development Report.
5. Patricia Mechael: mHealth in Africa is moving beyond the stage of pilot projects.
6. mhealth alliance
7. Patricia Mechael (Earth Insitute): Partnership between Millennium villages, Ericsson and other mobile providers.
8. Patricia Mechael (Earth Insitute): MoTECH project in Ghana, funded by Gates Foundation, ethnographic study on mhealth.
9. Raghurama Krishna (Ericsson), talking about mhealth projects:m-learning, teleconsulting; Ericsson Mobile Innovation Center.
10. Raghurama Krishna (Ericsson): Gramjyoti, Ghandigram project (India): buses with mhealth connectivitiy.
11. Anneli Milen: mhealth in Africa used for appointment reminders, treatment adherence (HIV etc), health educ.
12. Anneli Milen: mhealth challnges: reinventng the wheel, not open source, separate pilots, not scalable, sustainabilty, cultural.
13. Anneli Milen echoes call for a repository of ehealth projects. I should revive my International eHealth Studies Registry idea.
14. none of the speakers mentioned social networking as potential mhealth application. #idea: twitter-like sms 1-to-many network.
15. what I learned when preparing my talk: Twitter “failed” in Africa because of SMS costs .
16. I asked a question re my #idea to the mhealth panel, but I don’t think they understood what I was talking about …
17. Talked w Patricia Mechael (she’s great) in the break, mentioned UNICEFs RapidSMS. Seems like a great tool!
18. Emmanuel Ubachukwu from Ministry of Health Nigeria talks about using RapidSMS for Malaria (bednets distribution).
19. RapidSMS for malaria bednet distribution coordination in Nigeria is fascinating – 1 million SMS sent.
20. Flatiel Vilanculos, AHILA: “1/3 of medicines in the developing worlds are counterfeit made by criminals.
21. Flatiel Vilanculos, AHILA: mPedigree, 8-digit code on genuine med labels, consumer verifies drug isn’t counterfeit via SMS.
22. Mpedigree in Ghana are doing great effort to combat counterfeiting of drugs using ICTs,
24. Michael Dabaly (ZAIN, a mobile ph provider), talking about mHealth for Disease & Epidemic Surveillance and Reporting in Kenya.
25. Mohammed Saleh from Microsoft shows video “A glimpse ahead” ,

The next series of posts will provide an introduction of the eHealth Conference held in Ghana as a joint initiative by the UN, WHO, UNDESA, and UNECA.

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