The incredible potential to improve global health delivery through appropriate use of health information technology (HIT) drives discussion in this community. Members connect to learn about feasibility, planning, and implementation of a broad spectrum of HIT projects, including electronic medical record systems and mobile devices.
Community moderators
Joaquin Blaya, PhD
eHealth Systems
Harvard Medical School
Partners In Health - PIH
A/Prof. Terry HANNAN
Australasian College of Health Informatics - ACHI
Naomi Muinga
Recent community activity
Framework for accelerating the development of HIE policies and procedures in LMIC
Lauren Wu
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Alvin - there isn't much literature unfortunately documenting U.S. states' experiences with governance of HIE. We were able to find this review/white paper from 2011 that has some features about state experiences and models that might be helpful. read more
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Request for assistance
Niamh Darcy
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I would also recommend looking at the MAPS toolkit, which although written for mHealth projects also applies to eHealth in general. This looks at what it takes to scale an mHealth project, which also implies sustainability. There are many different models out there, for sustaining technology interventions also - one ... read more
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EMR guidelines for managers
Naomi Muinga
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found them online here: http://www.ega.go.tz/uploads/publications/3c7dfcd85c74eb4474b6ab64e10f662f.pdf read more
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Recommendations for Indian software developers
Sushil Patil
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Hi Alice, I work in a rural hospital in Chhattisgarh where we use Electronic health records system. The product is known by name Bahmni, it's website is http://www.bahmni.org It is developed Thoughtworks and their Indian office is in Delhi. This system is being used in several community based and a ... read more
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Anish Bhagwandeen
Affiliated Organizations
Georgetown Public Hospital Co-operation
Work LocationsGuyana