Marcos R. Mzeru: Overview of mHealth in Tanzania, Mobile Monday Dar es Salaam, April 2nd

mHealth in Tanzania

Mount Meru Regional HospitalPhoto: ALAMY

MOHSW is taking the lead to improve the responsiveness and reach with a focus on ‘at risk’ and ‘marginalized’ populationsPicture credits: Credits Photo (c) DavidSnyder CDC Foundation

A key initiative : national roll-out of the District HealthInformation System (DHIS), the official Tanzanian HealthManagement Information System (HMIS).The Tanzanian DHIS plays a critical role in monitoring andevaluation of health sector reform performance in thecountry.

The MoHSW often works in partnership with othergovernmental institutions, NGOs and private sectororganizations to achieve its objectives.

Introduction to themHealth Community of Practice

mHealth Community of PracticeWorkshops in Dar es Salaam and Bagamoyo

mHealth DefinitionMobile technology Health Care

mHealth projects in Tanzania• Disease surveillance• Logistics• Telemedicine• Clinical decision support• Health messaging• Community Health workers• Mobile money• More!

A handful of those involved in mHealth in Tanzania

mHealth projects in Tanzania D-Tree/UNICEF JSI / ILS Gateway Community MNCH X2 D-Tree/UNICEF MEDA ITN Phones for Health Community MNCH X2 Distribution NIH / Swiss Tropical D-tree/Pathfinder (Nationwide) D-tree/Pathfinder SMS printers for EID D-tree/CDCInstitute / IHI IMCI Facility HBCP for PLWHA SMS printers for EID HIV Triage tool xfor PLHA hospitals HBCP D-tree/CDC19 HBCPs Facility SMS for LifeSMS printers for EID All district hospitals SMS printers for EID HIV Triage tool (Nationwide)All district hospitals All district hospitals SMS printers for EID All districts hospitals SMS printers for EID Hospitals SMS printers for EID SMS printers for EID All district hospitals SMS printers for EID All district hospitals JSI / ILShospitals all districts hospitals JSI / ILS GatewayGateway JSI / ILS Gateway JSI / ILS Gateway

The Schistosomiasis The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Consortium for Operational Research EID SMS printers for Operational Research mHealth projects in Tanzania and Evaluation (SCORE) All district hospitals and Evaluation (SCORE)SMS printers for EID SMS printers for EIDAll district hospitals All district hospitals SMS printers for EID AllSMS printers for EID district hospitals All district hospitals D-tree/MOH D-tree/MOHSMS printers Emergency D-tree / / CRS D-tree CRS Emergency for EID Transport PMI - Transport All district Tanzanian Telemedicine Malaria hospitals iPath, IICD and Cordaid Wired Surveillance D-tree/UNICEF Facility Mothers and ELCT (Tanzania) based treatment for malnourished children PMI - (SAM) Mothers Malaria Wired Surveillance IHI Community Health Agents ITIDO NIH / Swiss Tropical Institute

Introduction to Public Private Partnership

Managed by the CDC Foundation Wednesday, April 04, 2012 Introduction to mHealth Tanzania Partnership

Current MoHSW mHealth Programs & ActivitiesPrograms:• Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) System• Core Indicator Reporting SystemActivities:• National mHealth Strategy Framework development with Community of Practice• Private sector partnership cultivation• ‘Community of Practice’ participation

Example of mHealth initiatives

Integrated Disease Surveillance Reporting Health Facility worker – Swahili voice recording free call to system from asks report questions & any mobile phone provides pre-defined responses the caller selects using numeric keypad Responses are repeated; Report Predefined alerts and ID # provided verbally and via notifications are SMS to caller automatically sent to health management officials for response Data is immediately Weekly reports and case available for notifications are analysis & automatically aggregated action

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Marcos R. Mzeru: Overview of mHealth in Tanzania, Mobile Monday Dar es Salaam, April 2nd

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