IntraHealth International

Because Health Workers Save Lives

eHealth

While promising, eHealth activities too often focus on technology and process, leaving out the health worker as a fundamental 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 activities through a variety of approaches. These include:

Incorporating eHealth capacity building into activities to promote eHealth literacy among health workers
Improving health workers’ access to lifesaving information through stronger health information systems and innovative learning approaches
Helping countries better plan and manage health workers by leading human resources information systems strengthening and developing and supporting the iHRIS Suite of open source human resources for health (HRH) software
Promoting best practices, resources, and tools for country and global HRH leaders through the HRH Global Resource Center (GRC) digital library and supporting development of national health decision support resources like the Uganda Ministry of Health Knowledge Management Portal
Providing open access eLearning courses for health workers and managers, available through the GRC’s eLearning Platform and other outlets
Developing and deploying mLearning methodologies for health worker training as well as to provide critical health information and performance support to health workers and patients
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.

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.”

Read about IntraHealth’s partnership with Hope Phones and FrontlineSMS:Medic to provide mobile phones to African health workers who offer maternal and child health services, including obstetric consultations, safe deliveries, family planning, and malaria and HIV prevention and treatment.

Countries: Belize, Botswana, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Lesotho, Kenya, India, Mali, Namibia, Nigeria, Panama, Rwanda, Senegal, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda