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e-Health
This page contains resources on the use of ICT tools in health care. Other terms for e-Health include tele-health, telemedicine and health informatics. The resources examine the potentials, pitfalls and challenges of e-Health, and the different approaches policy makers and practitioners can take in order to enhance the effective use of appropriate e-Health tools for the best-suited health purposes.
Resources focus on:
- Telemedicine, where medical advice or consultation is provided over long distances via Internet, radio, telephone or other communication technologies.
- The use of ICT for dissemination of health-related information, such as HIV/AIDS and vaccination hubs, using radio, television, Internet or short message service (SMS).
- THe use of ICTs in hospitals for management, medical data collection or statistical purposes.
Policy Brief in ICT Applications in the Knowledge Economy, No. 7: Improving Health Care in Rural Areas: Information and Communications Technology Solutions for Least Developed Countries
Achieving the health-related MDGs requires strengthening health systems, particularly in the following areas of (a) Expanding the primary health-care workforce and enriching the skill levels; (b) Upgrading and broadening medical infrastructure and logistics; (c) Providing affordable access to drugs and medical supplies; (d) Improving health decision-making and early warning by enhancing data collection and analysis of disease trends. This brief summarizes cost-effective information and communication technology (ICT) applications to support improvements in these areas in least developed, landlocked and small island countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Telehealth in the Developing World
This book aims to redress the relative lack of published information on successful telehealth solutions in the developing world. It presents real-life stories from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It is rich in practical experience and will be of interest to health professionals, development workers, and e-health and telehealth proponents interested in learning about, or contributing to the implementation of, appropriate solutions for 80% of the world’s population.
mHealth for Development: The Opportunity of Mobile Technology for Healthcare in the Developing World
This report examines issues at the heart of the rapidly evolving intersection of mobile phones and healthcare. It helps the reader to understand mHealth’s scope and implementation across developing regions, the health needs to which mHealth can be applied, and the mHealth applications that promise the greatest impact on heath care initiatives.
E-health in Rural Areas: Case of Developing Countries
Based on a technology assessment carried out in Kenya, and using multiple case studies in Nyanza Province, this work focuses on an investigation on how five rural hospitals are adapting to the technology shift. The issues examined include the ICT infrastructure and e-health technologies in place, the knowledge of participants in terms of benefits gained through the use of ICT and the challenges posing barriers to the use of ICT technologies in these hospitals. The results reveal that the ICT infrastructure in place is inadequate for e-health implementations as a result to various challenges that exist. Consequently, suggestions on how to tackle the various challenges have been addressed in this paper.
APDIP e-Note 22 - e-Health Tools for the Asia-Pacific Region
This APDIP e-Note provides an overview of the benefits and challenges of some of the most used e-Health tools. Important lessons learned in e-Health in the Asia-Pacific region are highlighted through three case studies from Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand. The APDIP e-Note also examines different approaches to e-Health, such as the use of free and open source software (FOSS) and the relationship between e-Health and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Finally, considerations for policy makers are discussed.
e-Health in Asia and the Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities
This report explores the experiences of countries in the Asia Pacific region, both in e-Health initiatives and policy actions. It also looks at the initiatives and polices at the trans-boundary level. The analysis both at national and regional levels sheds some light on the great potentials of e-Health in improvising the delivery of health care in the region, as well as the remaining challenges to fulfill such potentials. It is hoped that this would provide the basis for further research and analysis in specific areas, which would serve as a reliable guide for policy formulation and for regional cooperation.
Improving Health, Connecting People: The Role of ICTs in the Health Sector of Developing Countries - A Framework Paper
This paper provides a snapshot of the types of information and communication technology (ICT) being used in the health sector, and the policy debates involving ICTs and health. It is aimed at policymakers, international donors, local practitioners, and others who are involved in the development or management of programmes in the health sector in developing countries. The paper illustrates the major constraints faced in using ICTs effectively in the health sector of developing countries. It draws out good practices for using ICTs in the health sector, identifies major players and stakeholders, and highlights priority needs and issues of relevance to policymakers. It pays particular attention to how ICTs can best be used to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals, as part of poverty reduction strategies and in order to improve the health of the most poor and vulnerable people.
The Contribution of ICT to Health Care System Productivity and Efficiency: What Do We Know?
This briefing paper outlines the methodological approaches taken to measure the impact of ICT on productivity in the health sector, summarizes the available evidence, and makes recommendations as to where future research effort might be best directed.
Opportunities for Telehealth: The Asian Perspective
This presentation discusses e-health in and provides information on a project entitled, "PANACeA (PAN Asian Collaborative for evidence-based ehealth Adoption and Application).”
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Improving Quality of Health Practices
This article covers a wide range of areas in which ICT can support improvements in the quality of health care, including improvement of the qualifications and skills of health and medical professionals, increase public access to information on their health and how to be healthy, and increase in the efficiency of health services.
TeleMedicine in Pakistan
This article discusses existing telemedicine scenario, the role of the Government of Pakistan in telemedicine, initiatives of the Pakistan Space Organization, the Pak-US Collaboration in Telemedicine and the Telemedicine Association of Pakistan.
Building Foundations for eHealth
The Global Observatory for eHealth was established by the World Health Organization in 2005 to monitors the development of e-health worldwide, with an emphasis on individual countries. As its initial task it carried out the first global survey on eHealth which resulted in a series of outputs including a publication entitled, "Building Foundations for eHealth," survey results and individual country profiles.
Expanding The Reach and Impact of Consumer e-Health Tools
This report summarizes a study undertaken by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, on the potential utility and value of consumer e-health tools for populations that experience health disparities. As the report notes, the rapidly expanding use of information and communication technologies, particularly the Internet, by multiple sectors of the population indicates that there is an opportunity to use these same technologies to improve population health. Many conditions, however, must be met before opportunity becomes reality. The report examines and describes the most significant requirements as well as provides a vision to help guide the development of an inclusive environment of e-health benefits for all.
Health Gateway - mobile phone technology offers easy-to-use and cost-effective telemedicine service for rural and remote areas
This Journal is about the usage of Technology in health sector and specifically the application of mobile phone e-health. The author also discuss about the data exchange using Bluetooth in e-health which is very helpful to everyone and the risk of exchanging health information using Bluetooth. Security is important in transmitting information via mobile phone; thus this paper also give a snapshot on how to prevent from be attacked by hackers if we transmit the data from Bluetooth in e-health. Besides that the usage of mobile phone as tool to telemedicine will reduce the need for patient from rural area to visit the clinic just only to ask the advice. Telemedicine also helps in reducing care cost for older citizens. Some elderly people may be allowed to continue their normal life at home while remotely assisted by health care professionals.
Review of the UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Programme Website
This study is an evaluation and review of the website component of the UNDP South East Asia HIV (SEAHIV) and Development Programme. The author begins by examining the context, mission and purpose. The performance of the website is then assessed, focusing on the posting of documents and their downloading. And finally, the impact of the website is examined.
YouthLens on Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS: Information and Communications Technology
This review of ICT reproductive health and HIV/AIDS education projects finds that small projects have begun to demonstrate the potential value of using the technology with youth. Web-based projects, CD-ROMs, and other types of ICT can lead to changes in young people’s knowledge and attitudes about sexual and reproductive health issues.
Genes, Technology and Policy
This e-primer discusses the science and policy issues surrounding the use of modern biotechnology. It provides a snapshot of the benefits of biotechnology, as well as concerns regarding its potential negative impact on the environment and on human health.
Mobile e-Health: The Unwired Evolution of Telemedicine
The progress of telemedicine from desktop platforms to wireless and mobile configurations may have a significant impact on future health care. This paper reviews some of the latest technologies in wireless communication and their application in health care. The new technologies can make the remote medical monitoring, consulting, and health care more flexible and convenient. However, there are challenges for successful wireless telemedicine, which are addressed in this paper.
E-Health: Navigating The Internet For Health Information
This white paper is about the importance of Internet usage in health sector. It looks at four main areas - the evolution of e-health consumer, legal implication, safety aspect and quality of e-health.
(in Korean)