CCG is a medical disaster preparedness group that provides tools and consulting to help medical organizations improve their crisis response. It offers seminars, workshops and exercises to aid in senior leadership decision making and staff coordination. CCG's tools include a disaster preparedness platform, response platform called EMRS2020, and medical camps. EMRS2020 aims to provide real-time situational awareness and a common operating picture for all response levels (tactical, operational, strategic) to improve coordination across organizations.
Medical practice (africa vs north america) dr louis uwaifo, m.dpeaceohue
Medical practice is as diverse as medicine itself! Let us attempt to compare and contrast medical practice in Africa and North America, 2 different continents, each unique in its practice of medicine. Live session includes case discussions of various scenarios
Medical practice (Africa vs North America) Dr Louis Uwaifo, MDdruwaifol
Compare and contrast medical practice in Africa and North America, 2 different continents with unique differences in their practice of medicine, mindful of developing and developed statuses respectively. Live session includes clinical case scenarios discussions and video clips
Will the next generation of doctors be ready for telehealth?VSee
Telehealth Failures & Secrets to Success Conference 2017 by VSee
Speaker: Homero Rivas
Director of Innovative Surgery of Stanford University School of Medicine
More info here: vsee.com/conference
Telehealth Failures & Secrets to Success Conference 2017 by VSee
Speaker: Prof. Yuki N. Karakawa
Director of IVeH (International Virtual E-Hospital)
More info here: vsee.com/conference
Medical practice (africa vs north america) dr louis uwaifo, m.dpeaceohue
Medical practice is as diverse as medicine itself! Let us attempt to compare and contrast medical practice in Africa and North America, 2 different continents, each unique in its practice of medicine. Live session includes case discussions of various scenarios
Medical practice (Africa vs North America) Dr Louis Uwaifo, MDdruwaifol
Compare and contrast medical practice in Africa and North America, 2 different continents with unique differences in their practice of medicine, mindful of developing and developed statuses respectively. Live session includes clinical case scenarios discussions and video clips
Will the next generation of doctors be ready for telehealth?VSee
Telehealth Failures & Secrets to Success Conference 2017 by VSee
Speaker: Homero Rivas
Director of Innovative Surgery of Stanford University School of Medicine
More info here: vsee.com/conference
Telehealth Failures & Secrets to Success Conference 2017 by VSee
Speaker: Prof. Yuki N. Karakawa
Director of IVeH (International Virtual E-Hospital)
More info here: vsee.com/conference
The European, Chinese, and United States healthcare markets are a study of contrasts, each of which face a unique set of challenges and issues for their combined 2.4 billion citizens. Despite their differences, there are a number of opportunities for organizations to learn and profit through intercontinental collaboration on their paths to a more connected healthcare ecosystem. Panelists representing the three regions will provide an overview of their country’s unique healthcare landscape and offer a vision for a future of collaboration and progress.
• Brian O'Connor - Chair, European Connected Health Alliance
• Millard Chiang - Chairman, China Connected Health Alliance; Chair, Pegasus Holdings Group
• Julien Venne - Strategic Advisor & European Project Team Leader, European Connected Health Alliance
• David Whitlinger - Executive Director, New York eHealth Collaborative
New York eHealth Collaborative Digital Health Conference
November 18, 2014
The Health Finance and Governance Briefing KitHFG Project
Resource Type: Brief
Authors: Megan Meline, Lisa Tarantino, Jeremy Kanthor, and Sharon Nakhimovsky
Published: September 2015
Resource Description: Getting access to affordable, quality health care is a universal story that touches virtually every family in the world. At the same time, providing quality health services and access to trained health professionals is a challenge for governments. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 150 million people worldwide face “catastrophic expenditure” because of high costs of health care. In other words, they may have to forgo paying for basic needs, such as food, housing, or education to pay for medical treatment instead. These costs include transportation, doctors’ fees, medicine, hospitalization bills, and days lost from work.
Behind these sobering statistics lies a wealth of news and feature stories waiting for the media to investigate and share with national leaders and policymakers as well as civil society groups who can advocate for changes to health budgets and policies. At the heart of these stories are important questions about the financing of health care and the quality of governance that ensures responsive and effective management of those resources and services.
But writing health finance and governance stories can be challenging. Health finance is riddled with complex language, technical economic terms, and numbers – not necessarily a journalist’s comfort zone. The right sources for these stories can be difficult to identify and unwilling to talk. Data may be difficult to locate or to understand. And while corruption makes for splashy headlines, the broader systemic challenges of health governance are not widely understood — and yet they are important.
The Health Finance and Governance Briefing Kit is designed to help journalists and their editors uncover and tell these important health stories that affect people all around the world.
Integrating the HIV Response at the Systems LevelHFG Project
The global response to combat the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic scaled up considerably in the early 2000s with the establishment of key institutions, notably the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) and the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) (AIDS.gov 2018). In response to high global rates of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality, the internationally supported rapid scale-up of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention, testing, treatment, and drug development is widely credited with curtailing a global epidemic, thereby limiting the human and financial costs of the virus (Bekker et al. 2018). Still the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates that 1.8 million people were infected with HIV in 2017, and there are nearly 37 million people living with HIV (PLWHIV) worldwide (UNAIDS 2018a). In many countries, financing and governance of HIV services is transitioning from international donors to national governments.
This funding transition has major implications for the governance, management, and implementation of the HIV response. Governments undergoing funding transitions for the HIV response are integrating aspects of the response into systems and processes for governing, managing, financing, and delivering other essential
health services. But this phenomenon has not been systematically studied, and documentation on how governments achieve this is limited. Understanding how some governments are navigating an HIV funding transition may help other countries and the global health community to better design and plan future or ongoing efforts to transition national HIV responses to domestic resources for health. USAID’s HFG project is helping to fill this gap. In particular, this study helps build an evidence base by exploring whether and how four countries in the process of transitioning to greater domestic financing of their HIV response are integrating HIV programming with local systems and processes for other essential health services.
This study applies the concept of system integration to examine the alignment of rules, policies, and support systems to address HIV and other essential health services in four low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Specifically, the study explores the current extent of integration, the decisions faced by policymakers, and potential barriers/facilitators to integration in four countries. The analysis allows HFG to share lessons learned by each of these countries attempting to optimize rules, policy, and support systems for HIV and other essential health services.
This presentation was given to an intimate group of attendees at the offices of Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter on 10/22/2009. Presenters included Robert Marotta, Elise Spriggs, Jeff Porter, Ralph Breitfeller, Geoffrey Stern, Rex Plouck and Jennifer Covich Bordenick.
South Africa HIV and TB Expenditure Review 2014/15 - 2016/17 Full ReportHFG Project
The South African Government (SAG) and its development partners have mounted a formidable response to the world’s largest HIV epidemic and a persistent burden of tuberculosis (TB), the country’s leading killer. Nearly 4 million South Africans initiated antiretroviral therapy (ART) by the end of financial year 2016/17, helping to curtail new infections and reduce the number of annual HIV-related deaths. Mortality from TB has also declined thanks, in part, to improved treatment success.
Despite progress, challenges remain. Roughly 3 million people living with HIV (PLHIV) lack treatment, and each year more than a quarter million are newly infected. Moreover, nearly a half million South Africans contract TB every year, with an increasing share affected by drug-resistant strains.
To effectively plan and steward the health system, the SAG routinely monitors programmatic and financial performance of the response to HIV and TB, including by tracking expenditure. Analysis of spending, including trends in sources, levels, geographic and programmatic distribution and cost drivers can help policymakers to assess whether resources are reaching priority populations, interventions, and hotspot geographies; to identify potential opportunities to improve allocative and technical efficiency; and to stimulate more productive dialogue at multiple levels of the system.
This review of HIV and TB expenditure in South Africa is an input to policy, planning and management processes within and amongst spheres of government and between government and development partners. The data have been especially useful to national and provincial programme managers as they perform their oversight functions, leading to improved spending of available resources. With 52 annexes, it also serves as an authoritative reference document detailing levels and trends in HIV and TB spending by the three main funders of the disease responses: the SAG, the United States Government (USG), primarily via the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (the Global Fund). The findings have informed South Africa’s report to the UNAIDS Global AIDS Monitor and the country’s forthcoming funding request to the Global Fund.
Digital Transformation in Health: The New Patient ParadigmVSee
Telehealth Failures & Secrets to Success Conference 2017 by VSee
Speaker: Paul Smolke
Senior Director of Productivity, Worldwide Health of Microsoft
More info here: vsee.com/conference
Modeling the impact of the health finance and governance projectHFG Project
Over its six-year life (2012-2018), the project worked with more than 40 partner countries to increase their domestic resources for health, manage resources more effectively, and reduce system bottlenecks in order to increase access to and use of priority health services and strengthen health systems overall. HFG provided state-of-the-art and country-specific technical assistance to remove obstacles that impede effective health system functioning and essential reforms. Recognizing the importance of measuring its impact, HFG quantified its return on investment for HFG health systems strengthening efforts.
HFG and its partner Avenir Health conducted a rigorous exercise to estimate the impact of the project’s health systems strengthening activities on its overall goal: increased use of priority health services. We used Spectrum, a suite of modeling tools developed by Avenir Health and partners, to quantify impact on mortality and morbidity based on changes in the coverage of specific priority health services due to the project’s activities aimed at improving access, quality, and use of health care. Given the diverse activities of HFG and the challenge of establishing a measurable causal link between project activities and coverage effects, we adopted a conservative approach and chose for this impact modeling exercise a subset of HFG activities for which a direct link was apparent. Based on these parameters, the exercise was conducted for eight country programs: Bangladesh, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Haiti, Nigeria, Senegal, and Vietnam.
Using a methodical approach, we analyzed individual project activities in these countries and the expected effects on service coverage to estimate the impact on morbidity and mortality. We examined how our activities, including implementing strategies for improved human resources for health, operationalizing health insurance schemes, rolling out packages of health services, and using costed plans and packages to advocate for more financial resources, will increase access to health services, which in turn will lead to greater coverage of health services among targeted populations and ultimately to reduced morbidity and mortality. We modeled the impact of HFG’s activities by quantifying the number of deaths that were averted as a result of HFG-supported strategies and reforms.
The modeling results indicate that continued implementation of health systems strengthening strategies like those HFG supported would bring significant expansion of health care coverage and enhanced health outcomes.
This report presents country- and activity-specific results and the methodology for estimating coverage changes and impact. We hope this modeling exercise adds to the global understanding of how the impact of health systems strengthening can be measured. It provides powerful evidence on why investment and effort in strengthening health systems must continue.
Health Care Data Sets and their purpose
UHDDS, UACDS, MDS, OASIS, DEEDS and EMDS.
Explain the standardization data collection efforts.
Explain the five type of standards that need to be in place to implement the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).
Standard Development Organizations
Evolving and Emerging Health Information Standards
Mustafa Degerli - 2016 - e-Health and e-Pulse - PresentationDr. Mustafa Değerli
gives information about e-Health [Definition of e-Health, Main Players in the Field of e-Health, Success Factors for e-Health Projects, The 10 e’s in e-Heath, Current e-Health Projects or Services of Turkey, Statistics Regarding the Health and e-Health Industries of Turkey, Comparative Statistics regarding Health, Metrics related with Health and e-Health, EU Citizen’s Use of e-Health Services, and European Funded Projects in the field of ICT for Health and Wellbeing (e-Heath)], e-Pulse (e-Nabız) [e-Pulse (e-Nabız), Features and Functionalities of e-Pulse (e-Nabız), Future Functionalities of e-Pulse (e-Nabız), and Security and Privacy related with e-Pulse (e-Nabız), Legal Case related with e-Pulse (e-Nabız), Infrastructure of e-Pulse (e-Nabız), and Integration of e-Pulse (e-Nabız) with Other Systems], Comparing epSOS (EU), NHS (England), HealtheVet (USA), HealthHub (Singapore), and e-Pulse (Turkey) [epSOS (EU), NHS (England), HealtheVet (USA), HealthHub (Singapore), Results of Comparison regarding epSOS (EU), NHS (England), HealtheVet (USA), HealthHub (Singapore), and e-Pulse (Turkey)], and Future Works.
Evaluating the Costs and Efficiency of Integrating Family Planning Services i...HFG Project
Integrating the delivery of health services is viewed as a priority in the fight for an AIDS-free generation, because this integration has the potential to improve access to HIV, family planning (FP), and other services and provide continuity of care for those living with HIV. At the request of USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS and the USAID Zambia mission, the Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project conducted a study examining the costs and efficiencies involved in integrating family planning and antiretroviral therapy (ART) services.
Community based COVID preparedness (CBCP) 25082021Sudhanshu39
The coronavirus pandemic has shown us a new world where the status quo no longer exists.
•‘The world has seen many crises over the past 30 years, including the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-09. Each has hit human development hard but, overall, development gains accrued globally year-on-year. COVID-19, with its triple hit to health, education, and income, may change this trend.’ UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner
• But the pandemic also shows us the wisdom of what is already inherent in the SDGs; the challenges we face cannot be dealt with in isolation or by a piecemeal approach.
• WHO COVID-19 Strategic Response and Preparedness Plan 2021 also highlights the need for coordinated response to plot a course out of the pandemic.
The European, Chinese, and United States healthcare markets are a study of contrasts, each of which face a unique set of challenges and issues for their combined 2.4 billion citizens. Despite their differences, there are a number of opportunities for organizations to learn and profit through intercontinental collaboration on their paths to a more connected healthcare ecosystem. Panelists representing the three regions will provide an overview of their country’s unique healthcare landscape and offer a vision for a future of collaboration and progress.
• Brian O'Connor - Chair, European Connected Health Alliance
• Millard Chiang - Chairman, China Connected Health Alliance; Chair, Pegasus Holdings Group
• Julien Venne - Strategic Advisor & European Project Team Leader, European Connected Health Alliance
• David Whitlinger - Executive Director, New York eHealth Collaborative
New York eHealth Collaborative Digital Health Conference
November 18, 2014
The Health Finance and Governance Briefing KitHFG Project
Resource Type: Brief
Authors: Megan Meline, Lisa Tarantino, Jeremy Kanthor, and Sharon Nakhimovsky
Published: September 2015
Resource Description: Getting access to affordable, quality health care is a universal story that touches virtually every family in the world. At the same time, providing quality health services and access to trained health professionals is a challenge for governments. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 150 million people worldwide face “catastrophic expenditure” because of high costs of health care. In other words, they may have to forgo paying for basic needs, such as food, housing, or education to pay for medical treatment instead. These costs include transportation, doctors’ fees, medicine, hospitalization bills, and days lost from work.
Behind these sobering statistics lies a wealth of news and feature stories waiting for the media to investigate and share with national leaders and policymakers as well as civil society groups who can advocate for changes to health budgets and policies. At the heart of these stories are important questions about the financing of health care and the quality of governance that ensures responsive and effective management of those resources and services.
But writing health finance and governance stories can be challenging. Health finance is riddled with complex language, technical economic terms, and numbers – not necessarily a journalist’s comfort zone. The right sources for these stories can be difficult to identify and unwilling to talk. Data may be difficult to locate or to understand. And while corruption makes for splashy headlines, the broader systemic challenges of health governance are not widely understood — and yet they are important.
The Health Finance and Governance Briefing Kit is designed to help journalists and their editors uncover and tell these important health stories that affect people all around the world.
Integrating the HIV Response at the Systems LevelHFG Project
The global response to combat the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic scaled up considerably in the early 2000s with the establishment of key institutions, notably the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) and the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) (AIDS.gov 2018). In response to high global rates of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality, the internationally supported rapid scale-up of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention, testing, treatment, and drug development is widely credited with curtailing a global epidemic, thereby limiting the human and financial costs of the virus (Bekker et al. 2018). Still the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates that 1.8 million people were infected with HIV in 2017, and there are nearly 37 million people living with HIV (PLWHIV) worldwide (UNAIDS 2018a). In many countries, financing and governance of HIV services is transitioning from international donors to national governments.
This funding transition has major implications for the governance, management, and implementation of the HIV response. Governments undergoing funding transitions for the HIV response are integrating aspects of the response into systems and processes for governing, managing, financing, and delivering other essential
health services. But this phenomenon has not been systematically studied, and documentation on how governments achieve this is limited. Understanding how some governments are navigating an HIV funding transition may help other countries and the global health community to better design and plan future or ongoing efforts to transition national HIV responses to domestic resources for health. USAID’s HFG project is helping to fill this gap. In particular, this study helps build an evidence base by exploring whether and how four countries in the process of transitioning to greater domestic financing of their HIV response are integrating HIV programming with local systems and processes for other essential health services.
This study applies the concept of system integration to examine the alignment of rules, policies, and support systems to address HIV and other essential health services in four low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Specifically, the study explores the current extent of integration, the decisions faced by policymakers, and potential barriers/facilitators to integration in four countries. The analysis allows HFG to share lessons learned by each of these countries attempting to optimize rules, policy, and support systems for HIV and other essential health services.
This presentation was given to an intimate group of attendees at the offices of Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter on 10/22/2009. Presenters included Robert Marotta, Elise Spriggs, Jeff Porter, Ralph Breitfeller, Geoffrey Stern, Rex Plouck and Jennifer Covich Bordenick.
South Africa HIV and TB Expenditure Review 2014/15 - 2016/17 Full ReportHFG Project
The South African Government (SAG) and its development partners have mounted a formidable response to the world’s largest HIV epidemic and a persistent burden of tuberculosis (TB), the country’s leading killer. Nearly 4 million South Africans initiated antiretroviral therapy (ART) by the end of financial year 2016/17, helping to curtail new infections and reduce the number of annual HIV-related deaths. Mortality from TB has also declined thanks, in part, to improved treatment success.
Despite progress, challenges remain. Roughly 3 million people living with HIV (PLHIV) lack treatment, and each year more than a quarter million are newly infected. Moreover, nearly a half million South Africans contract TB every year, with an increasing share affected by drug-resistant strains.
To effectively plan and steward the health system, the SAG routinely monitors programmatic and financial performance of the response to HIV and TB, including by tracking expenditure. Analysis of spending, including trends in sources, levels, geographic and programmatic distribution and cost drivers can help policymakers to assess whether resources are reaching priority populations, interventions, and hotspot geographies; to identify potential opportunities to improve allocative and technical efficiency; and to stimulate more productive dialogue at multiple levels of the system.
This review of HIV and TB expenditure in South Africa is an input to policy, planning and management processes within and amongst spheres of government and between government and development partners. The data have been especially useful to national and provincial programme managers as they perform their oversight functions, leading to improved spending of available resources. With 52 annexes, it also serves as an authoritative reference document detailing levels and trends in HIV and TB spending by the three main funders of the disease responses: the SAG, the United States Government (USG), primarily via the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (the Global Fund). The findings have informed South Africa’s report to the UNAIDS Global AIDS Monitor and the country’s forthcoming funding request to the Global Fund.
Digital Transformation in Health: The New Patient ParadigmVSee
Telehealth Failures & Secrets to Success Conference 2017 by VSee
Speaker: Paul Smolke
Senior Director of Productivity, Worldwide Health of Microsoft
More info here: vsee.com/conference
Modeling the impact of the health finance and governance projectHFG Project
Over its six-year life (2012-2018), the project worked with more than 40 partner countries to increase their domestic resources for health, manage resources more effectively, and reduce system bottlenecks in order to increase access to and use of priority health services and strengthen health systems overall. HFG provided state-of-the-art and country-specific technical assistance to remove obstacles that impede effective health system functioning and essential reforms. Recognizing the importance of measuring its impact, HFG quantified its return on investment for HFG health systems strengthening efforts.
HFG and its partner Avenir Health conducted a rigorous exercise to estimate the impact of the project’s health systems strengthening activities on its overall goal: increased use of priority health services. We used Spectrum, a suite of modeling tools developed by Avenir Health and partners, to quantify impact on mortality and morbidity based on changes in the coverage of specific priority health services due to the project’s activities aimed at improving access, quality, and use of health care. Given the diverse activities of HFG and the challenge of establishing a measurable causal link between project activities and coverage effects, we adopted a conservative approach and chose for this impact modeling exercise a subset of HFG activities for which a direct link was apparent. Based on these parameters, the exercise was conducted for eight country programs: Bangladesh, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Haiti, Nigeria, Senegal, and Vietnam.
Using a methodical approach, we analyzed individual project activities in these countries and the expected effects on service coverage to estimate the impact on morbidity and mortality. We examined how our activities, including implementing strategies for improved human resources for health, operationalizing health insurance schemes, rolling out packages of health services, and using costed plans and packages to advocate for more financial resources, will increase access to health services, which in turn will lead to greater coverage of health services among targeted populations and ultimately to reduced morbidity and mortality. We modeled the impact of HFG’s activities by quantifying the number of deaths that were averted as a result of HFG-supported strategies and reforms.
The modeling results indicate that continued implementation of health systems strengthening strategies like those HFG supported would bring significant expansion of health care coverage and enhanced health outcomes.
This report presents country- and activity-specific results and the methodology for estimating coverage changes and impact. We hope this modeling exercise adds to the global understanding of how the impact of health systems strengthening can be measured. It provides powerful evidence on why investment and effort in strengthening health systems must continue.
Health Care Data Sets and their purpose
UHDDS, UACDS, MDS, OASIS, DEEDS and EMDS.
Explain the standardization data collection efforts.
Explain the five type of standards that need to be in place to implement the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).
Standard Development Organizations
Evolving and Emerging Health Information Standards
Mustafa Degerli - 2016 - e-Health and e-Pulse - PresentationDr. Mustafa Değerli
gives information about e-Health [Definition of e-Health, Main Players in the Field of e-Health, Success Factors for e-Health Projects, The 10 e’s in e-Heath, Current e-Health Projects or Services of Turkey, Statistics Regarding the Health and e-Health Industries of Turkey, Comparative Statistics regarding Health, Metrics related with Health and e-Health, EU Citizen’s Use of e-Health Services, and European Funded Projects in the field of ICT for Health and Wellbeing (e-Heath)], e-Pulse (e-Nabız) [e-Pulse (e-Nabız), Features and Functionalities of e-Pulse (e-Nabız), Future Functionalities of e-Pulse (e-Nabız), and Security and Privacy related with e-Pulse (e-Nabız), Legal Case related with e-Pulse (e-Nabız), Infrastructure of e-Pulse (e-Nabız), and Integration of e-Pulse (e-Nabız) with Other Systems], Comparing epSOS (EU), NHS (England), HealtheVet (USA), HealthHub (Singapore), and e-Pulse (Turkey) [epSOS (EU), NHS (England), HealtheVet (USA), HealthHub (Singapore), Results of Comparison regarding epSOS (EU), NHS (England), HealtheVet (USA), HealthHub (Singapore), and e-Pulse (Turkey)], and Future Works.
Evaluating the Costs and Efficiency of Integrating Family Planning Services i...HFG Project
Integrating the delivery of health services is viewed as a priority in the fight for an AIDS-free generation, because this integration has the potential to improve access to HIV, family planning (FP), and other services and provide continuity of care for those living with HIV. At the request of USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS and the USAID Zambia mission, the Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project conducted a study examining the costs and efficiencies involved in integrating family planning and antiretroviral therapy (ART) services.
Community based COVID preparedness (CBCP) 25082021Sudhanshu39
The coronavirus pandemic has shown us a new world where the status quo no longer exists.
•‘The world has seen many crises over the past 30 years, including the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-09. Each has hit human development hard but, overall, development gains accrued globally year-on-year. COVID-19, with its triple hit to health, education, and income, may change this trend.’ UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner
• But the pandemic also shows us the wisdom of what is already inherent in the SDGs; the challenges we face cannot be dealt with in isolation or by a piecemeal approach.
• WHO COVID-19 Strategic Response and Preparedness Plan 2021 also highlights the need for coordinated response to plot a course out of the pandemic.
A Rapid Assessment of Key Areas of the NHSSP for Timor-Leste: Strengths, Chal...HFG Project
Since gaining its independence in 2002, Timor-Leste has made significant strides in rebuilding its political system, physical infrastructure, civil service structure, and health care system. The country has done this with substantial financial and technical donor support. In the health sector, Timor-Leste has created a sound 20-year national health plan, the National Health Sector Strategic Plan (NHSSP) 2011-2030. The NHSSP identifies four health system priorities: 1) Provision of Health Services, 2) Investment in Human Capital, 3) Infrastructure Investment, and 4) Health Management and Administration.
Despite these positive developments, Timor-Leste faces significant challenges: many health indicators are poor – Timor-Leste’s stunting rate is the second highest in the world, and maternal mortality remains staggeringly high across the socio-economic spectrum. It will be important to break the cycle of close birth spacing, high fertility rates, chronic malnutrition, poor human capacity, and poor education. In addition, Timor-Leste has to take the health development agenda increasingly into its own hands, against the backdrop of dwindling donor resources and a contracting oil-dependent economy, which is responsible for up to 80 percent of Timor-Leste’s gross domestic product.
To help inform the future scope of USAID health sector support in Timor-Leste, the agency tasked the Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project with conducting a rapid assessment of Timor-Leste’s progress against the key objectives of the NHSSP, and to identify potential strategic high-impact areas for agency support.
Thematic Platform for Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Health and the ...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
Presentation at the Consultion Day event about: Scientific and Technical Platforms / Networks: Achievements and Future Goals during the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction GPDRR 2013 in Geneva
This presentation covers the basics of Healthcare domain and the testing challenges faced there off.Good content for people having interest or working in Health Care domain.
Develop a disaster recovery plan to lessen health disparities an.docxkhenry4
Develop a disaster recovery plan to lessen health disparities and improve access to community services after a disaster. Then, develop and record a 10-12 slide presentation (please refer to the PowerPoint tutorial) of the plan with audio and speaker notes for the Vila Health system, city officials, and the disaster relief team.
As you begin to prepare this assessment, you are encouraged to complete the Disaster Preparedness and Management activity. The information gained from completing this activity will help you succeed with the assessment as you think through key issues in disaster preparedness and management in the community or workplace. Completing activities is also a way to demonstrate engagement.
Professional Context
Nurses perform a variety of roles and their responsibilities as health care providers extend to the community. The decisions we make daily and in times of crisis often involve the balancing of human rights with medical necessities, equitable access to services, legal and ethical mandates, and financial constraints. In the event of a major accident or natural disaster, many issues can complicate decisions concerning the needs of an individual or group, including understanding and upholding rights and desires, mediating conflict, and applying established ethical and legal standards of nursing care. As a nurse, you must be knowledgeable about disaster preparedness and recovery to safeguard those in your care. As an advocate, you are also accountable for promoting equitable services and quality care for the diverse community.
Nurses work alongside first responders, other professionals, volunteers, and the health department to safeguard the community. Some concerns during a disaster and recovery period include the possibility of death and infectious disease due to debris and/or contamination of the water, air, food supply, or environment. Various degrees of injury may also occur during disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts.
To maximize survival, first responders must use a triage system to assign victims according to the severity of their condition/prognosis in order to allocate equitable resources and provide treatment. During infectious disease outbreaks, triage does not take the place of routine clinical triage.
Trace-mapping becomes an important step to interrupting the spread of all infectious diseases to prevent or curtail morbidity and mortality in the community. A vital step in trace-mapping is the identification of the infectious individual or group and isolating or quarantining them. During the trace-mapping process, these individuals are interviewed to identify those who have had close contact with them. Contacts are notified of their potential exposure, testing referrals become paramount, and individuals are connected with appropriate services they might need during the self-quarantine period (CDC, 2020).
An example of such disaster is the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. People who had contact with someone .
A Sustainable Healthcare Emergency Management Framework: COVID-19 and BeyondHealth Catalyst
With an ever-changing understanding of COVID-19 and a continually fluctuating disease impact, health systems can’t rely on a single, rigid plan to guide their response and recovery efforts. An effective solution is likely a flexible framework that steers hospitals and other providers through four critical phases of a communitywide healthcare emergency:
Prepare for an outbreak.
Prevent transmission.
Recover from an outbreak.
Plan for the future.
The framework must include data-supported surveillance and containment strategies to enhance detection, reduce transmission, and manage capacity and supplies, providing a roadmap to respond to immediate demands and also support a sustainable long-term pandemic response.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath