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- ItemA 360° Country Perspective on Digital Health Development: The Case of MalawiDigital health solutions are often presented as a panacea a one stop solution that fill gaps and overcomes complex health sector barriers in low and middle income countries LMICs In practice digital infrastructure and connectivity lag uptake of new technology and data use are tough nuts to crack and coordination of well meaning partners is exceedingly difficult Though technical solutions seem to abound bringing them to scale has proven elusive In this session we will take the country perspective focusing on 5 key areas that cut across digital health programs policy tech and tools partner coordination data quality and streamlining and data use Experts from Malawi a pioneering country for digital health leadership will honestly discuss their efforts and challenges in these key domains Presented by Hannah Cooper Co Founder and Managing Director Cooper Smith
- ItemStrengthening primary health care through digital toolsSpeakers for this panel included Jamil Zaman Deputy Director eMIS Mamoni Health System Strengthening Project Save the Children Eyob Kebede Director Health Information Technology Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health Maryanne Mureithi Senior Service Designer Medic Mobile
- ItemOpen Data Source AnalysisLed by Abt Associates this workshop is designed as an introduction to the powerful open source tools available for analyzing and leveraging social media texts and other unstructured data The session will demonstrate how these tools provide new ways for health professionals to communicate rapidly and on a large scale when dealing with emergent health crises such as Aids Ebola Zika and other infectious diseases Presented by Nancy Brown Director IT Programs Abt AssociatesAlison Thaung Senior Data Scientist Abt AssociatesJillian Berkowitz Technology Advisor Abt AssociatesDr Robert Mangel Lead Data Scientist Abt Associates
- ItemDigital Health Investment ToolDigital Health Investment ToolkitWant to help the development community make better digital health investments Bring your voice to this interactive session on the Digital Health Investment Tool DHIT The DHIT has been developed to translate the Principles for Digital Development into action and equip Ministries of Health funders and implementing partners with a tool to help them rate a project s adherence to the Principles in the interest of promoting more effective digital solutions and rational use of government and donor funding This tool seeks to break down the Principles into a set of scoring criteria and resources that can be applied by Ministry of Health donor and implementing partner staff to assist them in making investment decisions We will present the DHIT and facilitate discussion within small groups to provide feedback to improve it s usability and continue it s evolution as a community tool Presented by Adele WaugamanSenior Advisor Digital HealthU S Agency for International Development USAID Steve OllisSenior Digital Health AdvisorMCSP JSI
- ItemMenekse Gencer, mPay Connect: How can mobile money improve health outcomes?This is the presentation by Menekse Gencer of mPay Connect How can mobile money improve health outcomes It was given at the May 28 2013 meeting of the mHealth Working Group on Mobile Money Please see also Mobile Money for Health under Resources which includes presentations by Pamela Riley HFG project Setting the contextAndrew Karlyn USAID Mobile Solutions Why does mobile money matter Steve Ollis D Tree Zanzibar use case for safer deliveriesJudy Gold Marie Stopes International Madagascar family planning voucher use caseHamilton McNutt NetHope Tools to support transition to mobile money
- ItemDecember 2011 Meeting MinutesmHealth Working Group Meeting December 1st 2011 9 00 11 00 am EDT Held at Deloitte Consulting 555 12th Street NW 5th Floor Room 5001 Washington DC National mHealth Strategy Agenda Development of National mHealth Strategy Framework in Tanzania mHealth in Tanzania by Steve Ollis D tree International mHealth Community of Practice see Presentation Slides Video of national strategy workshop by Deloitte Consulting Development Process for the National mHealth Strategy in Tanzania by Dr Mwendwa Mwenesi mHealth Country Coordinator for the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Panel Discussion Claud Kumalija Head of HMIS for the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social WelfareDr Mwendwa Mwenesi mHealth Country Coordinator for the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social WelfareMarcos Mzeru Country ICT Manager mHealth for the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social WelfareJon Tigges and Nathaniel Clarke Deloitte ConsultingSarah Emerson CDC FoundationSteve Ollis COO for D tree International co chair of Tanzania mHealth Community of Practice Introduction to mHealth in Tanzania by Steve Ollis D tree mHealth Community of Practice Tanzania recently faced the same challenges in mHealth as other countries including limited planning by pilot programs and little coordination between them To address this challenge Dr Mwendwa Mwenesi was appointed as the mHealth Country Coordinator for the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare MOHSW The mHealth Tanzania Partnership also supports public private partnerships working through the MOHSW CDC and public and private sector partners This partnership leverages private sector interest in mHealth and mMoney to develop sustainable public private partnerships Under Dr Mwendwa s guidance Tanzania s mHealth Community of Practice has served as a forum for knowledge sharing and coordination between over 30 member organizations The Community of Practice meets quarterly and has four thematic working groups It addresses such challenges including scaling siloed funding infrastructure procurement and adoption and privacy Video of national strategy workshop by Deloitte Consulting The MOHSW and Deloitte Consulting convened a national mHealth strategy workshop in August of 2011 The two day strategy workshop was held with local stakeholders from health providers funders mobile network operators application developers eHealth technology and innovation promotion academia and research The workshop was based on local stakeholder calls for a national strategy local stakeholder interviews MOHSW guidance and Deloitte s experience in designing national strategies The effort was supported with global lessons learned from literature and expert interviews A participatory process and graphic facilitation were employed to elicit input on stakeholders vision concerns and priorities Stakeholders voted on key issues in roadmaps for short term action and a framework for continued development of a national mHealth strategy Development Process for the National mHealth Strategy in Tanzania Dr Mwendwa Mwenesi mHealth Country Coordinator for the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare The Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare MOHSW prioritizes the developmentt and implementation of national mHealth strategy This strategy will cover key areas in mHealth including routine data collection disease tracking logistics monitoring healthcare worker communication and training education and awareness and health areas such as reproductive and child health The development of a national mHealth strategy follows the precedent and the principles used for health management information systems HMIS It takes into consideration HMIS challenges including lack of integration and of capacity as well as silos at the staff administrative and donor level Data is of little use if decision makers do not use it Strategy development also builds on HMIS principles of country leadership and ownership broad based consensus with stakeholders building upon existing initiatives and a gradual and flexible approach Strategy development for mHealth covers several key areas including alignment with MOHSW strategies and health priorities Other key areas include policy and governance management of people processes and technology and the related organizational structure and skills This is supported by the technology and infrastructure of mHealth and eHealth mHealth is a component of eHealth eHealth strategy is still in development as part of a larger eGovernance strategy by the Tanzanian government The MOHSW is leading the strategy development process with help from consultants This is important to have a locally developed strategy with local relevance A ministry s of health is the owner of a national mHealth strategy The ministry s role is to guide the strategy development process This includes coordination of multiple stakeholders to ensure linkages between projects Internal coordination within a ministry also ensures that mHealth strategy leverages related guidelines that have already been developed A strategy emphasizes key processes for mHealth rather than prescriptive outcomes Strategy development can take years The challenge is to keep pace with the quickly evolving nature of mHealth Since strategy requires significant time to formalize a balanced approach can allow innovation to continue in a coordinated way The focus of a national mHealth strategy is to ensure that technology generates a health impact The emphasis is on health rather than technology Too often mHealth projects are run by technologists with little health understanding and generate little health impact Monitoring and evaluation is a key role of a ministry to determine which project merit scale up The Tanzanian MOHSW is conducting process evaluation of mHealth pilots A strategy provides a ministry of health with influence from the earliest stages of mHealth projects Criteria for mHealth programs can be articulated in advance to ensure that pilots plan for key issues such as potential scale up and sustainability This is necessary so that mHealth projects benefit host countries rather than approaching them as merely test beds for mHealth For example it is possible to find a health facility that takes on the burden of hosting five mHealth pilots but no funds are allocated for continuation of the pilots It is then difficult for a ministry to take ownership of a mHealth project if there has been no planning for scale up The role of a ministry is to coordinate organizations in mHealth rather than to control them All types of stakeholders should be involved in the collaborative process so that they are in agreement on the resulting strategy Individual NGOs compete for funding but recognize the need to cooperate for health impact Likewise donors recognize that they must share resources In Tanzania there is already good dialogue between the MOHSW and NGOs through the mHealth Community of Practice The private sector is interested in joining the dialogue since many NGO efforts may eventually be transferred to the private sector for sustainability Inclusion of stakeholders from multiple sectors requires education about their varying needs and about the major issues in mHealth The mHealth is field is new to everyone so all stakeholders are still learning about the opportunities and challenges Many of the mHealth projects in Tanzania have been conducted without informing the MOHSW The MOHSW is currently mapping mHealth projects in collaboration with the mHealth Community of Practice There have also been externally led efforts to survey mHealth in Tanzania though short term inventories based out of a city do not have the same reach as longer term local led inventories Questions and Discussion The mHealth Working Group can support local leadership for strategy development in Tanzania and a strategy template based on the Tanzanian model Local leadership guides the mHealth strategy development in Tanzania Also donor requirements can be useful for local partners to plan for scalability or sustainability of projects However it difficult to obtain funds for strategy formulation or coordination between multiple projects The mHealth strategy will be incorporated in the eHealth strategy which is still under development The national eHealth strategy is part of a larger eGovernance strategy Lessons from other eHealth efforts are welcomed including the anticipated WHO eHealth Toolkit Meeting participants commented that coordination with mobile operators is difficult elsewhere in countries without a telecom regulator In Tanzania the Tanzanian Communications Regulatory Authority is a member of the mHealth Community of Practice The MOHSW oversees health data in both public and private sectors Public private partnerships and incentives are used to leverage both sectors Regarding mHealth for health insurance in Tanzania related efforts are underway by KFW and by Tigo In separate news in the US Greentree held a meeting last month to prioritize interoperability and evidence for mHealth mHealth Working Group Activities Leading Up to the mHealth SummitConference on mHealth and Information and Communication Technologies in the World of Small Enterprise Development co organized with the Aspen Institute and UNCTAD on November 29 2011 This conference addresses how economic development and global health fields can cooperate to foster small local ICT businesses for sustainable mHealth See http www k4health org toolkits mhealth november 29 2011 Building Partnerships that Work Designing for Success and Scale a paper coauthored by the mHealth Working Group and GBCHealth This supports the Global Business Coalition panel held at the mHealth Summit on December 7 2011 The paper and related panel address the opportunities challenges and approaches for public private partnerships in mHealth See http www k4health org toolkits mhealth december 7 2011 About the mHealth Working Group The mHealth Working Group is a collaborative forum for sharing knowledge and developing promising practices on mobile technology for health Founded in 2009 with global health organizations the Working Group frames mHealth within global health strategies and standards We promote approaches that are appropriate evidence based interoperable scalable and sustainable in resource poor settings The mHealth Working Group is facilitated and supported by USAID s K4Health Project The Working Group holds regular meetings in Washington DC to discuss promising approaches challenges and lessons learned Meeting notes are available on the mHealth Toolkit at http www k4health org toolkits mhealth mhealth working group 0 600 representatives of more than 150 organizations in 35 countries participate in the mHealth Working Group You are welcome to receive future announcements by joining the mHealth listserv at http knowledge gateway org mhealth December 1 2011 mHealth Working Group Meeting Participants Name Organization Jeannine Lemaire Actevis Meryl Bloomrosen AMIA Bill Philbrick CARE Sarah Emerson CDC Foundation mHealth PPP TZ Tianne Wu Columbia University Brooks Hosfield Deloitte Frank Ramirez Deloitte Jon Tigges Deloitte Steve Ollis D Tree International Bobby Jefferson Futures Group Cristin Marona Futures Group Neil Pakenham Walsh GHI Net Andrew Wyborn Greenmash Lauren Wu HHS OASH Kirsten Bose JHU CCP Elsie Minja JHU CCP Ashley Barash JSI Mike Frost JSI Sweta Sneha Kennesaw State University Judy Gold Marie Stopes Nick Ramsing MEDA Clemens Masesa MITU Claud Kumalija MOHSW Tanzania Marcos Mzeru MOHSW Tanzania Mwendw Mwenesi MOHSW Tanzania Alfonso Contreras PAHO WHO Margot Mahannah PSI Mariah Preston PSI Lindsay Levin QED Group Trevor Lewis R4D CHMI Eric S Starbuck Save the Children Adam Slote USAID Daniel Carozza Verizon Paul johnson Rebecca Hamel Anne Marie DiNardo
- ItemmBCC Field Guide Evaluation FormThis evaluation form accompanies the document mBCC Field Guide A Resource for Developing Mobile Behavior Change Communication Programs
- ItemInteractive Session: Human Centered Design- Expert Facilitation TechniquesHuman centered design HCD involves meaningful participation with the beneficiaries or users of a proposed intervention and is comprised of activities relating to empathizing prototyping and iterating In recent years it has become an area of much interest to the global health ICT4D and social impact community HCD promises to bridge gaps between implementers and users and yield effective and sustainable solutions to the world s most important problems yet many organizations get stuck in the implementation gap of successfully integrating HCD into their work Learn about Medic Mobile s HCD Practitioner s Guide which outlines the approach they ve applied to health system improvements in 27 countries as well as to their organizational strategy and growth to a team of more than 50 Presented by Dianna Kane Chief Design Officer Medic Mobile
- ItemPutting the patient in charge: new tools to help clients own and manage their health/dataSpeakers Included Sherri Haas Sr Technical Advisor MSHRebecca Litner Program Manager D tree InternationalLeslie Heyer President Cycle Technologies Inc
- ItemAssessment of World Vision's mHealth Projects in Asia and Africa: Focus on Scalability and SustainabilityDigital for MNCH Data Use Strategies Using Scalable Digital Solutions This panel will explore how several global NGOs are using data to create scalable digital solutions for the Maternal Newborn and Child Health MNCH sector World Vision has leveraged digital health to improve infant and young child nutrition outcomes using the MOTECH Suite to support a range of Community Health Worker delivered programming to support community health systems strengthening Across Sierra Leone India and Indonesia gaps and opportunities in existing digital health programs were identified using the mHealth Assessment Planning for Scale MAPS Toolkit and the Global Digital Health Index GDHI Globally PATH has explored the role for digital health solutions to make data readily available and shareable They will share change management best practices to support the creation of a data use culture including presentations from country government participants in Zambia and Tanzania who have led the way in implementing efforts to increase evidence based decisions in their facilities and districts JSI works to support the USAID Maternal and Child Survival Program MCSP focused on high impact health interventions to prevent child and maternal deaths They are using GIS to understand social economic and other non physical barriers to maternal care in Nigeria As more spatial data on social economic and health are made available through DHS and similar programs GIS becomes more relevant tool to the global health and development field Presented by Bhishmaraj Srivastava MPH MBA Candidate Johns Hopkins University
- ItemmHealth Field Guide for Newborn HealthMr Kelly Keisling CORE Group mHealth Lead presented the CORE Group s recently published mHealth Field Guide for Newborn Health at the January 28 2014 meeting of the meeting of the mHealth Working Group hosted by MCHIP Jhpiego The link to the publication is here http www coregroup org storage mHealth Guide for Newborn Health pdf
- ItemKnowledge in the hands of those who need it mostNand Wadhwani of The Mother and Child Health and Education Trust gave a presentation Knowledge in the hands of those who need it most about HealthPhone at the at the mHealth Working Group s April 26 2013 Deep Dive workshop This is the recording of the presentation The workshop focused on the development of mobile health information including messages involving text voice and images for clients The meeting objectives were to share information on various types of mobile health messaging in current use share best practices for the design of mobile health content and acquire hands on experience with the best practices for mobile health messaging Other speakers included Peggy D Adamo and Adam Slote USAID Stephen Rahaim of Abt Associates Sarah Shannon Hesperian Kelly L Engle FHI 360 Kirsten Gagnaire Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action MAMA Nandita Kapadia Kundu Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs JHU CCP and Mariann Hensley and Carrie Miller Catholic Relief Services There were two hands on workshop rotations There is also a report from the workshop which includes summaries of the presentations workshops and mobile health content resources See Meeting Report Deep Dive Developing Mobile Content for Clients April 26 2013
- ItemMMH PresentationPanel Going Digital at the Frontlines Sit back and learn from a diverse group of panelists about how digital tools have supported health workers from rural Guatemala to Zambia From a recent survey involving over 140 frontline health worker support projects about emerging trends and best practices in the use of digital tools to presentations on two programs that have scaled to support health workers in service delivery and digital learning You ll learn about tools and approaches that have worked and identify what will help your own programs scale digital programs for health workers Presented by Erica Layer Program Director D Tree
- ItemBuilding on Local Capacity and SustainabilityPanel Building on Local Capacity and Sustainability There is an urgent need for local software developers to support digital health platforms in low resource countries But how can the digital health community design projects that can attract and retain high quality software developers and other technologists to work on digital health platforms This session will showcase successes and failures of global digital health experts in their attempts to build local teams of software developers and ICT experts Presented by Rebecca Saxton Fox ICT4D Advisor USAID
- ItemFacilitating collaboration to accelerate scale and improve digital health global goodsDigital Square an innovative co investment global program led by PATH aims to serve as a convener in the digital health community bringing together practitioners to share their work lessons learned and future needs This helps organizations to work together to implement digital health tools that are adaptable to different countries and contexts also known as Global Goods To foster transparency collaboration and synergy Digital Square uses an open application platform including community feedback to align investments in digital health systems The open application process provides a unique opportunity for practitioners to learn key details about and comment on each other s tools and implementation plans This session will describe the innovative open application process and feature global goods awarded through Digital Square including the OpenLMIS Community of Practice OpenCRVS OpenSRP and Bahmni Speakers included MODERATOR Jake Watson Sr Director Platforms and Services DIAL Christopher Seebregts CEO Jembi Health Systems Mary Jo Kochendorfer Manager Information Systems VillageReach Matt Berg CEO Ona Steven Wanyee Intellisoft Amanda BenDor Technical Program Manager PATH
- ItemA Recent History of Digital Health from the World Health OrganizationNew Resources from the World Health Organization WHO Johns Hopkins University GlobalmHealth Initiative GMI Partnership Join this engaging session to learn about new resources emanating from the WHO GMIcollaboration including the Digital Health Atlas the MAPS tool the mERA checklist and theM E Toolkit Learn about each tool and bring your computer presenters will facilitatesessions to help you in a live navigation of the tools After this workshop you ll be betterequipped to utilize these essential tools in planning and scaling your digital innovations Presented by Garrett Mehl Scientist WHO
- ItemD- Tree Evolution to Scale: Lessons Learned from the Safer Deliveries Program in Zanzibar, From Pilot to ScalePanel Lessons Learned for Sustainability Hear D Tree share their lessons learned in moving from pilot to scale and the evolution oftheir Safer Deliveries program in Zanzibar as well as Jhpiego s critical look back on buildinga sustainable human resource information systems from Mozambique s HRISimplementation Presented by Erica Layer Program Director D Tree
- ItemUpdate m4QI UgandaJames Bon Tempo and Pamela Riley s presentation Update m4QI Uganda from the April 2012 mHealth Working Group meeting
- ItemSafer Deliveries project in TanzaniaSteve Ollis Chief Operating Officer at D Tree International gave this presentation at the April 15 2014 meeting of the mHealth Working Group This presentation covers the results from the Safer Deliveries project in Tanzania In the first phase of the project 2010 2012 D tree used an open source mobile health mHealth application to reduce the informational logistical and financial barriers to in facility births and post partum care Steve s presentation includes project achievements lessons learned and scale up Through the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation s Grand Challenges Explorations Phase II D tree is building on the successes of the first phase to improve enhance and scale up the project
- ItemExploring Mobile Phone Surveys for Population Health: Scientific, Implementation, and Ethical ConsiderationsPanel Scientific Implementation and Ethical Considerations of SMS for Research Monitoring and Evaluation Amidst the backdrop of a mobile revolution mobile phone surveys such as SMS interactive voice response IVR and computer assisted telephone interviews CATI are being deployed for a range of health related topics The session will begin with a presentation on the landscape of mobile phone surveys being used in Low and middleincome countries LMIC The presenters will then discuss key points of consideration in the development of a mobile phone survey The Speakers drawing from prior experiences and the work of others will provide guidance on selecting the appropriate survey modality and ways to improve survey response and completion rates In addition the ethical legal and societal issues ELSI in the development conduct analysis and reporting of mobile phone surveys in LMICs will be highlighted and opened for discussion with the audience Presented by Dr George Pariyo Senior Scientist Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthJoseph Ali Research Scholar Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthDustin Gibson Assistant Scientist Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthDr Alain Labrique Founding Director Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative Associate Professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health