eHealth

In 2008, IntraHealth’s CEO Pape Gaye joined over 100 representatives of national governments, universities, charitable foundations, and development organizations to create the Bellagio eHealth Call to Action. This seminal document calls upon the world’s leaders and development partners to “accelerate achievement of better health for all in the 21st century…through interoperable, person-centered, evidence-based, and sustainable eHealth systems. Ultimately, these efforts will contribute to more equitable health care and improve the well-being of all the world’s citizens.”

Despite their promise, eHealth activities too often focus on technology and process, leaving out the health worker as the most important contributor to health. IntraHealth brings a unique and critical perspective to this emerging field by promoting the health worker as the ultimate agency of better health information. IntraHealth puts the health worker at the center of eHealth through a variety of approaches. These include:

• Helping countries better plan for and support health workers through the leading human resources information systems strengthening program and Open Source human resources for health (HRH) software suite
• Promoting best practices, resources, and tools for country and global HRH leaders through the HRH Global Resource Center and supporting development of national health decision support resources like the Uganda Ministry of Health Knowledge Management portal
• Through IntraHealth OPEN, advocating for Open Source technology approaches that support local developers, technological fluency, country capacity for local use and innovation, and better health information
• Supporting eHealth literacy and health worker access to lifesaving information through stronger health information systems and innovative learning approaches.

Countries: Botswana, Lesotho, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda

Leadership: Dykki Settle, Director, Health Informatics

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