Sub-title:
This tool kit comprises information on how to create a shared vision for digital health through a national strategy, focused on maximizing the value of resources.
Description:
"Digital health (also known as eHealth) is the application of information and communication technology
(ICT) solutions in the health system. Digital health systems must be interlinked if they are to ensure reliable
and robust communications between health centers, laboratories, clinics, and medical offices, and the wider
telecommunication infrastructure. They should include reliable and user-friendly devices; integration of ICT
and information management skills into the training of health workers, content that reflects local languages
and culture, and surveillance systems for health risks and emergencies. The use of ICT in health supports the
collection of health data, which can be analyzed and interpreted for decision-making purposes. However,
a lack of health information system (HIS) policies for health information system, vertically structured and
siloed health programs, and fragmented HISs are typical constraints in less-developed countries.1
When countries try to introduce digital health solutions, it is common to run into difficulties that start with
understanding what digital health solutions are needed, and how they can be best implemented to support
countries to overcome their health-related challenges. This is particularly acute in resource-constrained
settings. A shared vision is essential to overcoming these difficulties, building capacity in digital health, and
setting plans of action.
Digital health can be defined as a broad range of informatics applications for facilitating the management and
delivery of health care, including dissemination of health-related information, storage and exchange of clinical
data, interprofessional communication, computer-based support of patient–provider interaction, education,
health service management, health communities, and telemedicine, among other functions. Digital health
encompasses mobile health (mHealth) which involves the provision of health services and information via
mobile technologies.2
Digital health is also related to electronically connecting up the points of care so that
health information can be shared securely..."
Source/publisher:
Asia Development Bank (ADB)
Date of Publication:
2018-11-26
Date of entry:
2019-07-09
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Countries:
Myanmar, Thailand, Bhutan, Viet Nam,Timor-Leste, Nepal
Language:
English
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Format:
pdf
Size:
3.4 MB
Resource Type:
text
Text quality:
- Good