scholarly journals Evaluation of eHealth Implementations in Uganda: Investigating Practices, Challenges and Insights

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Nabukenya ◽  
Justus Ashaba
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Evaluation ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Health Organization

Abstract Background The application of information and communication technology is becoming more popular in healthcare management evidencing improvement of effectiveness, access, quality, and efficiency of the healthcare systems. With increased investment and implementation of eHealth across the world, there is a need to evidence its value. That is, its evaluation is required in order to get the most benefits out of them. To this end, this research study investigates the practices, challenges, and insights regarding the evaluation of eHealth implementations in Uganda. Methods A qualitative approach was employed to conduct the study investigation with key eHealth implementers in Uganda considered as respondents to establish an understanding of their perspectives with respect to ehealth evaluation practices and challenges faced, as well as to derive insights from these perspectives in relation to the World Health Organization (WHO) understanding of digital health evaluation. Results Results show that Uganda has implemented various eHealth initiatives; however less to none evaluation is undertaken, as it is not a key activity with most of the eHealth implementers. The focus is put on monitoring the ehealth initiatives’ functionality and adoption rather than their outcome and impact. Conclusion Accordingly, the study recommends the need for an evaluation framework following the WHO global digital health evaluation framework guidelines to elucidate the notion of evaluation, its characteristics, and measurement indicators regards the outcome and impact of ehealth implementations in healthcare and service delivery for Uganda’s health system.

scholarly journals An Exploratory Study on the Evaluation of eHealth Interventions in Uganda: Practices, Challenges and Insights

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Nabukenya ◽  
Justus Ashaba
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Evaluation ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Health Organization

Abstract Background: The application of information and communication technology is becoming more popular in healthcare management evidencing improvement of effectiveness, access, quality, and efficiency of the healthcare systems. With increased investment and implementation of eHealth across the world, there is a need to evidence its value. That is, its evaluation is required in order to get the most benefits out of them. To this end, this research study investigates the practices, challenges, and insights regarding the evaluation of eHealth implementations in Uganda. Methods: A qualitative approach was employed to conduct the study investigation with key eHealth implementers in Uganda considered as respondents to establish an understanding of their perspectives with respect to ehealth evaluation practices and challenges faced, as well as to derive insights from these perspectives in relation to the World Health Organization (WHO) understanding of digital health evaluation. Results: Results show that Uganda has implemented various eHealth initiatives; however less to none evaluation is undertaken, as it is not a key activity with most of the eHealth implementers. The focus is put on monitoring the ehealth initiatives’ functionality and adoption rather than their outcome and impact. Conclusion: Accordingly, the study recommends the need for an evaluation framework following the WHO global digital health evaluation framework guidelines to elucidate the notion of evaluation, its characteristics, and measurement indicators regards the outcome and impact of ehealth implementations in healthcare and service delivery for Uganda’s health system.

scholarly journals The World Health Organization/World Bank’s First World Report on Disability

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine D. Seelman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
World Report ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
First World

In June, 2011 at the United Nations (UN) in New York City, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank launched the first World Report on Disability. This short overview of the Report provides information about its purpose, development and content, intended audiences, and outcomes.  Special attention is directed to the sections of the Report which address telerehabilitation and information and communication technology.

An Empirical Study On The Prevalence Of Ict On Healthcare And Healthcare Services

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (8) ◽  
pp. 225-235
Author(s):  
S.B.Hidayath Ahamed ◽  
Dr.N. Rajendhiran
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
World Health ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Health Organization

Experts say “Health is Wealth”. Human resources are the driving resources for any nation and health is the driving force for any human. Health and health care services happen to be the strategic threshold for any nation. This sector happens to be crucial irrespective of the GDP of the nation and the purchasing power of its citizens, henceforth due care and attention need to be given to this crucial sector of the nation. In this present era of digitalization, it has become inevitable to be including technology in every progressive field of the nation in order to enhance the performance and increase the efficiency of the services. One such variant of the digital world is Information and communication technology (ICT). The World Health Organization (WHO) details the advantages associated with the use of ICT in primary healthcare services in terms of better and easy access to information, providing learning tools for healthcare professionals, patients, and community as a whole. Information and communication technology are being widely utilized in healthcare control structures. Rapid advancements in ICT in the last decade or so provide solutions to the problems in healthcare management structures. Those encompass a huge spectrum of troubles together with affected person safety, nutritional management, telemedicine, virtual imaging, file Control, and many others. This paper makes an attempt to detail the role of the rising technology that is getting used for the development of the healthcare process and become aware of the problems and their probable answers. Telemedicine gives a medium of enhancing the same old pattern of healthcare specifically in the developing global. The growing countries can make the most of it to the present better healthcare services as proper health Training. This paper highlights the boom of ICT area within the growing world and explores its viable uses in healthcare zone. Those may also assist healthcare specialists and community health employees to carry out their work in a better manner especially in far off region.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI APLIKASI PENGHITUNGAN KEBUTUHAN KALORI PENDERITA DIABETES MELITUS DI LINGKUNGAN KLINIK

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-55
Author(s):  
Yosep Agus Pranoto ◽  
Suryo Adi Wibowo ◽  
Miftakhur Rokhman ◽  
Kartiko Ardi Widodo
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
World Health ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Diabetes Melitus

World Health Organization (WHO) pada tahun 2015 menyatakan bahwa Indonesia menempati peringkat ke tujuh dunia untuk prevalensi penderita diabetes tertinggi di dunia. Dinyatakan bahwa diabetes merupakan penyebab utama penyakit kebutaan, serangan jantung, stroke, gagal ginjal, dan amputasi kaki. Namun, 80% diabetes dapat dicegah atau kejadiannya dapat ditunda dengan tata laksana pengobatan dan pola makan yang baik. Seperti permasalahan yang ditemukan pada mitra yaitu Klinik Griya Sehat Ampel Gading Medical Center yang berlokasi di Jalan Raya Tirtomarto, Kabupaten Malang adalah banyaknya pasien penderita diabetes. Pusat Data dan Informasi, Kementrian Kesehatan RI pada tahun 2014, pasien penderita diabetes dicanangkan pesan gaya hidup sehat yaitu PATUH dan CERDIK. Dalam bidang ICT (Information and Communication Technology) pesan gaya hidup sehat ini kemudian dituangkan dalam aplikasi berbasis desktop yang dapat digunakan sebagai penghitung kebutuhan kalori untuk penderita diabetes melitus. Aplikasi ini mendeteksi kebutuhan kalori menggunakan metode logika fuzzy, dengan memperhatikan parameter yang telah ditentukan seperti berat badan dan usia. Hasil program kemitraan ini menunjukkan bahwa aplikasi dapat meminimalisasi kesalahan penghitungan kebutuhan kalori pasien diabetes yang sebelumnya dilakukan secara konvensional oleh tenaga medis, dengan interface yang bersifat user friendly. Dengan diterapkannya sistem ini diharapkan dapat memperbaiki kualitas hidup pasien penderita diabetes.

scholarly journals Improving Pre-hospital Care of Road Traffic Accident's Victims with Smartphone Technology

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osman A. Abdellah ◽  
Majed M. Aborokbah ◽  
Abbdelrahman Osman Elfaki
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
World Health ◽  
Viable Solution ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Health Organization

<p class="0abstract">One of the most causes to lose millions of lives around the world is Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs). According to the world health organization (WHO) report, 1.25 million people are killed each year as a result of RTAs, 20 to 50 million people were injured, and the number of killed people by RTAs is expected to increase further by 2020. The recent studies conclude that patient survival during a health emergency situation depends on the effective pre-hospital healthcare services, while the effective communication between the paramedics and prehospital staff is one of the important healthcare success factors. With the rapid growing of information and communication technology (ICT), wireless technologies and mobile services can provide viable solution to overcome the pre-hospital healthcare problems. The aim of this research is to improve the quality of prehospital emergency healthcare services at KSA by developing and implementing a mobile based emergency system. The proposed application is moving the diagnosis time to be started during traveling time witch accelerate the treatment. The proposed system shows satisfactory results in term of effectiveness and satisfaction</p>

Facilitating Mobile Initiatives in Healthcare and Wellness Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 350-357
Author(s):  
Nilmini Wickramasinghe ◽  
Steve Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Number Of Individuals

Arguably, the most prevailing chronic disease today is diabetes. The World Health Organization (WHO) notes that diabetes is a silent epidemic, and by 2020, there will be a 54% rise in the total number of individuals diagnosed with this disease. These are distressing figures. Many are turning to technology solutions to assist. What becomes important is the ability to rapidly design and develop appropriate digital health and wellness solutions.

The World Health Assembly Resolutions on eHealth: eHealth in Support of Universal Health Coverage

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (06) ◽  
pp. 463-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Al-Shorbaji
Keyword(s):  
Universal Health Coverage ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
World Health Assembly ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Universal Health

SummaryThe World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO) and three of the six WHO Regional Committees adopted a number of resolutions on eHealth: the use of information and communication technology for health. These resolutions have given legitimacy to eHealth as an area of work for WHO and its member states. The implementation of these resolutions will contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Universal Health Coverage. eHealth has been per -ceived as reducing the cost of healthcare, improving quality and equitable access to health services.

scholarly journals "Digital Health Earth": towards a global healthcare management geolocating human health condition by means of space technology

Geocontext ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 52-71
Author(s):  
Antonio Del Mastro ◽  
Monaco Federico ◽  
Evgeniy Eremchenko ◽  
Binti Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Health ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
Added Value ◽  
World Health ◽  
Space Technology ◽  
Mortality And Morbidity ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Health Organization

Healthcare providers such as the World Health Organization, transnational and global health initiatives, the national healthcare systems, down to the smallest villages and individual practitioners and professionals could benefit from geo referential data and metadata and 3D digital assets provided by space technology. Health prevention and literacy programs, mortality and morbidity rates, including contextual statistical data about populations and territories are being already produced and accessible. The hypothetical frame of a Digital Health Earth hereto presented could be performed as the interoperability of 3D representations of sectors of territories and geolocalized layers about health and environment. SDG Goals crossed with WHO programs and available data can become the premises for the design and development of a global representation of healthcare situations, highlighting priorities and disseminating data by intuitive and interactive modes of visualization as it is already happening with 2D dashboards about COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare practitioners, professionals, health managers, but also patients, proxy, social workers, laypeople, stakeholders and media could benefit from visualizing and comparing Digital Earth health data. Concerns about privacy, digital divide and social exclusion from primary care services and how quality of lives might occur are considered here. As a consequence of Space Technology, especially for its connection with the Satellite industry, Digital Health Earth, will contribute to the development of a new added value economic branch inside the increasing market of the Space Economy Revolution.

How Can Digital Health Be Best Leveraged to Provide Optimal Support During Pandemics Like the COVID-19 Crisis?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Nilmini Wickramasinghe ◽  
Juergen Seitz
Keyword(s):  
Digital Health ◽  
Respiratory Illness ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Outbreak ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Wet Market

The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) first identified in Wuhan, China in late December 2019 was identified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020 and has caused tremendous disruption to economies around the world and significant loss of life and serious illness. The current outbreak which has been thought to have originated in an animal wet market in late 2019, being transferred from the horse shoe bat to the pangolin, is well adapted to human cell receptors. This enables it to easily infect people with an R0 of approximately 2.2 causing a respiratory illness (COVID-19) which can develop into pneumonia in moderate to severe cases. Older adults and people with underlying medical conditions are at higher risk. The following outlines a responsible digital health solution.

scholarly journals "Digital Health Earth": towards a global healthcare management geolocating human health condition by means of space technology

Geocontext ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-71
Author(s):  
Antonio Del Mastro ◽  
Monaco Federico ◽  
Evgeniy Eremchenko ◽  
Anna Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Health ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
Added Value ◽  
World Health ◽  
Space Technology ◽  
Mortality And Morbidity ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Health Organization

Healthcare providers such as the World Health Organization, transnational and global health initiatives, the national healthcare systems, down to the smallest villages and individual practitioners and professionals could benefit from geo referential data and metadata and 3D digital assets provided by space technology. Health prevention and literacy programs, mortality and morbidity rates, including contextual statistical data about populations and territories are being already produced and accessible. The hypothetical frame of a Digital Health Earth hereto presented could be performed as the interoperability of 3D representations of sectors of territories and geolocalized layers about health and environment. SDG Goals crossed with WHO programs and available data can become the premises for the design and development of a global representation of healthcare situations, highlighting priorities and disseminating data by intuitive and interactive modes of visualization as it is already happening with 2D dashboards about COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare practitioners, professionals, health managers, but also patients, proxy, social workers, laypeople, stakeholders and media could benefit from visualizing and comparing Digital Earth health data. Concerns about privacy, digital divide and social exclusion from primary care services and how quality of lives might occur are considered here. As a consequence of Space Technology, especially for its connection with the Satellite industry, Digital Health Earth, will contribute to the development of a new added value economic branch inside the increasing market of the Space Economy Revolution.

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