BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210204T222205Z UID:5DF07F6C-2E2D-4029-BB11-0A2489DE9840 DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20210128T120000 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20210128T130000 DESCRIPTION:Supported by the European Commission\, mHealth4Afrika has co-de signed and validated a modular\, multilingual\, comprehensive and state of the art health information system to support strengthening primary health care delivery in resource constrained environments. This work was carried out in partnership with Ministries of Health\, district health officers\, healthcare facility managers and healthcare workers from urban\, rural and deep rural primary healthcare facilities in Ethiopia\, Kenya\, Malawi and South Africa.\n\nThis DL shares lessons learnt\, good practices\, societa l and ethical challenges associated with the systematic introduction of a comprehensive healthcare solution in challenging resource constrained envi ronments. It will facilitate discussion around about potential opportuniti es for IEEE and non-IEEE members to get more involved in Sustainable Devel opment and ICT4D activities at home and abroad.\n\nCo-designed with Minist ries of Health\, District Health Offices\, Health Facility Managers and Nu rses from rural and deep rural health facilities in Ethiopia\, Kenya\, Mal awi and South Africa\, mHealth4Afrika is a comprehensive\, standards based technology and capacity building solution designed to complement and grad ually replace use of traditional hardcopy patient registries.\n\nCo-funded by the European Commission\, mHealth4Afrika was co-designed and validated in 23 healthcare facilities (including county and referral hospitals) in Ethiopia\, Kenya\, Malawi and South Africa\, serving a total catchment pop ulation of c.875\,000 people. It provides an adaptable\, extensible\, modu lar\, multi-lingual and standards based electronic health platform to supp ort longitudinal “cradle to grave” medical records\, integrating: Elec tronic Health Record (EHR) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) functionali ty\; use of Medical Sensors at the point of care\; analytical\, visualizat ion and decision support tools\; automatic generation of program specific aggregate data for District Health Offices & Ministries of Health\; SMS Ap pointment Reminders\; and integration with a Laboratory Test System\n\nThi s presentation will share insights into the lessons learnt and societal an d ethical implications of introducing technology to strengthen access to u niversal healthcare delivery in resource constrained environments.\n\nCo-s ponsored by: Kalyan Sen\n\nSpeaker(s): Paul Cunningham\, Miriam Cunningham \n\n126 Pauline Drive\, Monroeville\, Pennsylvania\, United States\, 15146 LOCATION:126 Pauline Drive\, Monroeville\, Pennsylvania\, United States\, 1 5146 ORGANIZER:senkk@ieee.org SEQUENCE:4 SUMMARY:MHEALTH4AFRIKA – LESSONS LEARNT AND GOOD PRACTICES FROM VALIDATIO N OF A COMPREHENSIVE HEALTHCARE SOLUTION FOR RESOURCE CONSTRAINED ENVIRONM ENTS URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/252733 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Supported by the European Commission\, mHe alth4Afrika has co-designed and validated a modular\, multilingual\, compr ehensive and state of the art health information system to support strengt hening primary healthcare delivery in resource constrained environments. T his work was carried out in partnership with Ministries of Health\, distri ct health officers\, healthcare facility managers and healthcare workers f rom urban\, rural and deep rural primary healthcare facilities in Ethiopia \, Kenya\, Malawi and South Africa.</p>\n<p>This DL shares lessons learnt\ , good practices\, societal and ethical challenges associated with the sys tematic introduction of a comprehensive healthcare solution in challenging resource constrained environments. It will facilitate discussion around a bout potential opportunities for IEEE and non-IEEE members to get more inv olved in Sustainable Development and ICT4D activities at home and abroad.< /p>\n<p>Co-designed with Ministries of Health\, District Health Offices\, Health Facility Managers and Nurses from rural and deep rural health facil ities in Ethiopia\, Kenya\, Malawi and South Africa\, mHealth4Afrika is a comprehensive\, standards based technology and capacity building solution designed to complement and gradually replace use of traditional hardcopy p atient registries.</p>\n<p>Co-funded by the European Commission\, mHealth4 Afrika was co-designed and validated in 23 healthcare facilities (includin g county and referral hospitals) in Ethiopia\, Kenya\, Malawi and South Af rica\, serving a total catchment population of c.875\,000 people. It provi des an adaptable\, extensible\, modular\, multi-lingual and standards base d electronic health platform to support longitudinal &ldquo\;cradle to gra ve&rdquo\; medical records\, integrating: Electronic Health Record (EHR) a nd Electronic Medical Record (EMR) functionality\; use of Medical Sensors at the point of care\; analytical\, visualization and decision support too ls\; automatic generation of program specific aggregate data for District Health Offices &amp\; Ministries of Health\; SMS Appointment Reminders\; a nd integration with a Laboratory Test System</p>\n<p>This presentation wil l share insights into the lessons learnt and societal and ethical implicat ions of introducing technology to strengthen access to universal healthcar e delivery in resource constrained environments.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR