eHealth for Health Care Delivery
Over the last decade, the need to develop and organize new ways of providing efficient health-care services has been accompanied by major advances in information and communications technology (ICT). This has resulted in a dramatic increase in the use of ICT applications in health care, collectively known as e-health.
"eHealth is the use, in the health sector, of digital data—transmitted, stored and retrieved electronically— in support of health care, both at the local site and at a distance."
Today the integration and assimilation of e-health into the everyday life of health-care workers is becoming a reality in developing as well as developed countries. The question is been whether activities in e-health would divert precious resources away from basic needs in poor countries in want of everything. Clearly this is an important issue that should not be neglected. But it is also a fact that the world is being digitalized. The rich world as well as the poor world.
Related documents
- Sri Lanka e-Health Project
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WHO-EHT-BOF-eHealth form
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eHealth for Health-care Delivery
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Information Technology in Health Care
pdf, 193kb - World Health Assembly Resolutions, WHA58/21. eHealth. 7 April 2005 [pdf 122kb]
Related links
- WHO Essential Medicines Library (EMLib)
- Time to get online
- Global Development Learning Network (GDLN)
- TDR News, eHealth for research
- Geographic information systems GIS and public health mapping
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Knowledge transfer and public sector research establishments (PSREs) [pdf 826kb]
"...This publication is intended to highlight examples of best practice in the work which PSREs are undertaking on knowledge transfer. As these case studies show, knowledge transfer from PSREs takes many forms and provides a wide range of benefits to business and the wider community..." -
Interactive CD-ROM for teaching health, medical and environmental reporting
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), Voice of America (VOA) forged a partnership which has developed an interactive CD-ROM for teaching health, medical and environmental reporting. UNAIDS, the Pan American Health Organization, Merck, Sharp and Dohme pharmaceutical company and others are partners in this global health journalism initiative.