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Global Health Information Technology

• Jacqueline Dubow
• infoDev

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The Study

• Scope
• ICT
• Health sector
• Developing countries
• Outputs
• Literature Review www.asksource.info/res_library/i
  ct_tax.htlm
• On-line Discussion
• Framework Paper

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ICT Impact

• Public health information dissemination
• Remote consultation, diagnosis treatment
• Health workers efficiency training
• Real time response
• Administrative systems efficiency

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Intervention

• National regulatory framework
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Vision been defined?
• Public, private civil society links
• Telecommunication sector reform
• Projects sustainability

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Knowledge Gaps

• Pilots to large scale implementation
• Cost effectiveness data
• Information experience sharing
• Capacity building of intermediaries
• Political champions
• Appropriate local content
• Enable voices of the poor

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Checklist

• Local needs assessment
• Simple technology first choice
• Local capacity to use technology appropriately
• Beneficiaries end users consulted and committed
• Technology built on strengthen existing systems
• Evidence based

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Issues

• Strenghthening health system capacity
• Big bang change
• Delivery strategies covering the largest amount
  of people
• Not what to do but how to do it
• Political economy
• Economic openess

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Thank You!