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This group brings together people who use ICTs to support Health sector work in developing countries. Use iConnect Health to discuss your experiences and ideas around effective use of ICT in the health sector, such as specific eHealth applications or initiatives, financial sustainability aspects, managing change when introducing eHealth systems, approaches to capacity building, impact on health care, and other aspects.

Map The Cardiopad: an African invention to save lives
A young Cameroonian engineer has built the first fully touch screen medical tablet that could soon save many African lives.

Latest Blog Posts

Map The Cardiopad: an African invention to save lives

By Saskia Harmsen on Tue, Feb 14th, 2012
A young Cameroonian engineer has built the first fully touch screen medical tablet that could soon save many African lives.

Seeking International Mobile Health Professionals for Paid Fellowship in the US

By Anne Schanz on Sun, Jan 29th, 2012
Deadline: Applications accepted year-round, but apply by February 12 for a June 2012 Fellowship

Evidence-Informed Policy Writing Training Workshop for Developmental and Health workers in Bolgatanta - Northern Ghana

By GINKS on Fri, Nov 11th, 2011
Every nation and institution is fashioned on certain laid down policy framework which serve as a guide to help them charter a worthy course and be able to evaluate and track their progress.

Use ICT for quality health care delivery

By GINKS on Tue, Sep 27th, 2011
Stakeholders in the health sector drawn from the three Northern Regions in Ghana have attended a day’s workshop on the use of Information Communication Technology in managing patient...

Open Call for expression of Interest - Experts on Knowledge Society Domains for African Leadership in ICT (ALICT) Program

By Lee Muzala on Fri, Jun 3th, 2011
GESCI has opened a call for expressions of interest for individual consultants and consortiums of consultants with demonstrated leadership capacity building experience and...

Recent Comments

7 reasons why ICT4D projects fail:

Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 04:41
AHM Bazlur Rahman

ICT4D failure

Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 04:41
AHM Bazlur Rahman

Change Management

Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 04:41
AHM Bazlur Rahman

Very very nice video with

Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 04:41
AHM Bazlur Rahman

Training Plan

Monday, March 14, 2011 - 03:27
Heidi Neff

Latest Wiki Pages

iConnect Health general wiki

By Anne Schanz on Mon, Jan 24th, 2011
This space is for collaborative knowledge management on all topics related to ICT-for-Health.

Latest News

FORUM ON THE USE OF ICTS IN MANGING PATIENTS’ DATA FOR EFFECTIVE HEALTH DELIVERY SYSTEM IN GHANA

By ACHEAMPONG SAMUEL... on Fri, Sep 23th, 2011
The Ghana ICT for Accelerated Development (ICT4AD) Policy which represents the Vision for Ghana in the information age has as its overall objective to engineer an ICT-led socio-economic develo

Young Scientist Award in ICT for Sustainable Development: Call for nominations and applications

By Saskia Harmsen on Mon, Apr 11th, 2011
The

Materials from the ICTD2010 conference

By Hassan Hamadu on Sun, Feb 20th, 2011
Materials from the ICTD2010 conference:

Upcoming Events

ICTD2010 London

Anne Schanz
Monday, 13th December, 2010 - Thursday, 16th December, 2010
The conference is the latest in the series of highly successful international ICTD conferences held in Doha (2009),
United Kingdom

eHealth & Telemed 2010

Judith Veldhuizen
Sunday, 12th December, 2010 - Monday, 13th December, 2010
Telemedicine continues to develop both clinical and telehealth applications to improve patient healthcare.
United Kingdom

Open Access Africa

Judith Veldhuizen
Tuesday, 9th November, 2010 - Wednesday, 10th November, 2010
hosted by BioMed Central, in partnership with ComputerAid
Kenya

Recent Resources

Mobile Phone Technology improving Health Care

By Maurizio Bricola on Wed, Sep 14th, 2011
File Resource
Publication
This bibliography covers information from a wide variety of sources on the topic of mHealth, including websites, journal articles, newspaper reports, books and videos.

Mobile Midwife Initiative by Grameen Foundation

By Anne Fuhrmann on Fri, Apr 8th, 2011
Video Resource
Mobile phones have become a pervasive technology in developing countries.

RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY E­HEALTH WORKSHOP

By begod75 on Mon, Mar 7th, 2011
File Resource
Workshop
The East Afriacan Community E-Health workshop was held in Kigali Rwanda Nov 2010.

Le Centre d’expertise et de recherche en télémédecine et e-Santé, du rêve à la réalité - Mali

By sharmsen on Wed, Mar 2th, 2011
File Resource
Publication
Le Centre d’Expertise et de Recherche en Télémédecine et e-Santé (CERTES) est le fruit de 8 ans d’expérienc

Computer Lab Manager Training Course Modules

By Heidi Neff on Wed, Mar 2th, 2011
File Resource
Manual
The computer lab manager training modules were designed to be used as a part of an instructor-led four module course, but are also useful for self study.  This multi-faceted training course cover