1) AeHS is a network of social businesses that develops eHealth software solutions like Afya Pro to improve healthcare in Africa by leveraging information and communication technologies.
2) Afya Pro electronic health information system has been implemented in over 28 healthcare facilities in Tanzania, 6 in Zimbabwe, and 7 in Malawi to manage patient records, finances, supplies and generate data and reports.
3) Case studies found Afya Pro improved quality of care, management, transparency and income for healthcare facilities while empowering staff with computer skills.
Creating large scale telehealth network : A story from the USA by Adam Darkins, Vice President, Medical Affairs & Enterprise Technology Development, Medtronics, USA
Personal connected health is currently characterized by limited thought leadership, insufficient coordination and collaboration, and a lack of awareness and understanding of the full potential by all stakeholders: public, providers, policymakers, industry and patients. The Personal Connected Health Alliance is defining the the field of personal connected health to inspire market and policy innovation, research and collective action for sustained adoption of personal connected health technology. The vision is better health and well being for all through increased personal responsibilities and connectivity as well as improved care delivery enabled by technology.
1-2 An Introduction to Clinical Informatics: History, Domains, and CareersCorinn Pope
2014 Clinical Informatics Slides. Section one part two on an introduction to clinical informatics: history of informatics, domains within informatics, and careers as an informaticist
Creating large scale telehealth network : A story from the USA by Adam Darkins, Vice President, Medical Affairs & Enterprise Technology Development, Medtronics, USA
Personal connected health is currently characterized by limited thought leadership, insufficient coordination and collaboration, and a lack of awareness and understanding of the full potential by all stakeholders: public, providers, policymakers, industry and patients. The Personal Connected Health Alliance is defining the the field of personal connected health to inspire market and policy innovation, research and collective action for sustained adoption of personal connected health technology. The vision is better health and well being for all through increased personal responsibilities and connectivity as well as improved care delivery enabled by technology.
1-2 An Introduction to Clinical Informatics: History, Domains, and CareersCorinn Pope
2014 Clinical Informatics Slides. Section one part two on an introduction to clinical informatics: history of informatics, domains within informatics, and careers as an informaticist
U.S. consumers are accustomed to purchasing almost anything online; and they expect choice, information and convenience when doing so. With the wide-scale adoption of a consumer-centric retail model across all industries, health insurers are being advised to get on the retail bandwagon. This slideshare and accompanying white paper discusses why the best path forward for health insurers is to deploy an e-commerce platform specifically designed to support all channels and all lines of business. Such a platform will ensure both front-end and back-end capabilities are addressed in a manner that is optimized for healthcare, and it should include search and decision support, personalization and upsell options for the consumer, as well systems integration, billing and payments, and extensive analytics and reporting for the insurer.
Virtual knowledge network NIMHANS Echo : Innovative tele- mentoring model for skilled capacity building in addiction & mental health by Prabhat Chand , NIMHANS, India
Read how NextGen® solutions can handle multiple diagnoses data from all of your critical channels and help you achieve true interoperability through our integrated solution.
Healthcare systems are the organization formed to meet the health needs of the population. It is an approach of maintenance or improvement of health through prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery or cure of disease, injury, and some other mental & physical impairments in individuals.
eHealth as a tool to support health practitioners November 2013Rajeev Rao Eashwari
“Telemedicine begins with a vision of connecting people to people, connecting resources to needs, and connecting healthcare problems to health care solutions”
eHealth Practice in Europe: where do we stand?chronaki
eHealth as the use of Information and communication technologies in the practice of health care comprises Electronic health records, Healthcare information exchange cross-jurisdictions, Personal health records, Telehealth, telemedicine and remote monitoring.
There are several efforts to reflect and measure the practice of eHealth including efforts by the OECD and WHO, but in general there is little reported sharing of health data particularly with patients. Specific barriers frequently mentioned are supporting policies and coherent widely implemented standards.
The presentation discusses relevant efforts and programs supported by the European Commission such as the eHealth DSI, eStandards, ASSESS CT, and openMedicine aiming at large scale eHealth adoption It calls for engagement of European Society, its national societies, and its members.
Virtual health is supporting continuing efforts to further humanize health care by extending and expanding the concept of a patient-centric care delivery model into one that is truly life-centric.
Virtual health uses telecommunication and networked technologies to connect clinicians with patients (and with other clinicians) to remotely deliver health care services and support well-being. For providers, committing to virtual health at a personal and organizational level affords ever-increasing opportunities to deliver the right care at the right time in the right place, in a connected and coordinated manner.
By strengthening and facilitating a therapeutic alliance between clinicians and patients, virtual health is an important step on our continuous journey to humanize health care. It works within and around a patient’s life, as opposed to their sickness, to deliver care when, where, and how they need and want it. Also, virtual health works its way into consumers’ daily routines by being embedded in electronic devices associated with living life (e.g., smartphones and personal computers) more so than caring for sickness.
The healthcare industry is primed for expanded adoption of virtual health; a 2016 report estimated that the US virtual health market will reach $3.5 billion in revenues by 2022. Several factors are elevating stakeholder interest, including expected physician shortages, continued growth in digital technologies, changing reimbursement models, increasing consumer demand, and the evolving regulatory landscape. One game-changer: Today, nine in 10 American adults use the internet, giving clinicians the capability and flexibility to communicate with and serve health care consumers via the web.
10-3 Clinical Informatics System Selection & ImplementationCorinn Pope
Section ten, module three of the clinical informatics course discusses the information system lifecycle. In this slide deck, we'll cover how to pick a clinical information system that works best for you. Also included are three free practice questions. If you would like more information or resources, be sure to check out our site at http://www.informaticspro.com.
Healing Hands Clinic : Success Story of India's Best Piles, Fissure and Fistu...HealingHands3
Healing Hands Clinic (HHC) is a certified center of excellence for Piles, Fissure, and Fistula treatment in India. Our branches are present at Pune, Mumbai, Nashik, Banglore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, and Dubai. Each of the clinics has Internationally recognized surgeons and state-of-the-art facilities to provide holistic treatment for all.
To date, more than 1.5 lakh patients have been satisfactorily treated for their diseases at Healing Hands Clinic. A maximum number of Stapler surgeries in Asia has been performed at all the centers of HHC. The country’s first Laser Haemorrhoidoplasty ( LHP ) was performed at HHC.
Determine what is Health Information Technology
Explain Types of Health Information Technology & Healthcare Software System
Illuminate Telehealth Technologies And Their Contribution In Improving Teleconsultations
Give details about Potential Benefits of Telemedicine
Explain barriers that have slowed the development of telemedicine.
Explain Health Technology Assessment and its purposes
Describe types and examples of Telemedicine Technology
U.S. consumers are accustomed to purchasing almost anything online; and they expect choice, information and convenience when doing so. With the wide-scale adoption of a consumer-centric retail model across all industries, health insurers are being advised to get on the retail bandwagon. This slideshare and accompanying white paper discusses why the best path forward for health insurers is to deploy an e-commerce platform specifically designed to support all channels and all lines of business. Such a platform will ensure both front-end and back-end capabilities are addressed in a manner that is optimized for healthcare, and it should include search and decision support, personalization and upsell options for the consumer, as well systems integration, billing and payments, and extensive analytics and reporting for the insurer.
Virtual knowledge network NIMHANS Echo : Innovative tele- mentoring model for skilled capacity building in addiction & mental health by Prabhat Chand , NIMHANS, India
Read how NextGen® solutions can handle multiple diagnoses data from all of your critical channels and help you achieve true interoperability through our integrated solution.
Healthcare systems are the organization formed to meet the health needs of the population. It is an approach of maintenance or improvement of health through prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery or cure of disease, injury, and some other mental & physical impairments in individuals.
eHealth as a tool to support health practitioners November 2013Rajeev Rao Eashwari
“Telemedicine begins with a vision of connecting people to people, connecting resources to needs, and connecting healthcare problems to health care solutions”
eHealth Practice in Europe: where do we stand?chronaki
eHealth as the use of Information and communication technologies in the practice of health care comprises Electronic health records, Healthcare information exchange cross-jurisdictions, Personal health records, Telehealth, telemedicine and remote monitoring.
There are several efforts to reflect and measure the practice of eHealth including efforts by the OECD and WHO, but in general there is little reported sharing of health data particularly with patients. Specific barriers frequently mentioned are supporting policies and coherent widely implemented standards.
The presentation discusses relevant efforts and programs supported by the European Commission such as the eHealth DSI, eStandards, ASSESS CT, and openMedicine aiming at large scale eHealth adoption It calls for engagement of European Society, its national societies, and its members.
Virtual health is supporting continuing efforts to further humanize health care by extending and expanding the concept of a patient-centric care delivery model into one that is truly life-centric.
Virtual health uses telecommunication and networked technologies to connect clinicians with patients (and with other clinicians) to remotely deliver health care services and support well-being. For providers, committing to virtual health at a personal and organizational level affords ever-increasing opportunities to deliver the right care at the right time in the right place, in a connected and coordinated manner.
By strengthening and facilitating a therapeutic alliance between clinicians and patients, virtual health is an important step on our continuous journey to humanize health care. It works within and around a patient’s life, as opposed to their sickness, to deliver care when, where, and how they need and want it. Also, virtual health works its way into consumers’ daily routines by being embedded in electronic devices associated with living life (e.g., smartphones and personal computers) more so than caring for sickness.
The healthcare industry is primed for expanded adoption of virtual health; a 2016 report estimated that the US virtual health market will reach $3.5 billion in revenues by 2022. Several factors are elevating stakeholder interest, including expected physician shortages, continued growth in digital technologies, changing reimbursement models, increasing consumer demand, and the evolving regulatory landscape. One game-changer: Today, nine in 10 American adults use the internet, giving clinicians the capability and flexibility to communicate with and serve health care consumers via the web.
10-3 Clinical Informatics System Selection & ImplementationCorinn Pope
Section ten, module three of the clinical informatics course discusses the information system lifecycle. In this slide deck, we'll cover how to pick a clinical information system that works best for you. Also included are three free practice questions. If you would like more information or resources, be sure to check out our site at http://www.informaticspro.com.
Healing Hands Clinic : Success Story of India's Best Piles, Fissure and Fistu...HealingHands3
Healing Hands Clinic (HHC) is a certified center of excellence for Piles, Fissure, and Fistula treatment in India. Our branches are present at Pune, Mumbai, Nashik, Banglore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, and Dubai. Each of the clinics has Internationally recognized surgeons and state-of-the-art facilities to provide holistic treatment for all.
To date, more than 1.5 lakh patients have been satisfactorily treated for their diseases at Healing Hands Clinic. A maximum number of Stapler surgeries in Asia has been performed at all the centers of HHC. The country’s first Laser Haemorrhoidoplasty ( LHP ) was performed at HHC.
Determine what is Health Information Technology
Explain Types of Health Information Technology & Healthcare Software System
Illuminate Telehealth Technologies And Their Contribution In Improving Teleconsultations
Give details about Potential Benefits of Telemedicine
Explain barriers that have slowed the development of telemedicine.
Explain Health Technology Assessment and its purposes
Describe types and examples of Telemedicine Technology
Determine what is Health Information Technology
Explain Types of Health Information Technology & Healthcare Software System
Illuminate Telehealth Technologies And Their Contribution In Improving Teleconsultations
Give details about Potential Benefits of Telemedicine
Explain barriers that have slowed the development of telemedicine.
Explain Health Technology Assessment and its purposes
Describe types and examples of Telemedicine Technology
Something In my head for a while, Its probably a little dramatic.
Probably ripe for implementation in India.
The reference by no means are complete, prepared the ppt over an extended period, lost track of references or was too lazy to search for them.
Will me more than glad to add them(references) if provided.
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Explain key eHealth and mHealth concepts
Define commonly used eHealth and mHealth terms
Illustrate eHealth and mHealth applications
Describe limitations and considerations for eHealth and mHealth
News from the Coal Face: There’s light at the end of the tunnel. Presented by Dr Andrew Miller, General Practitioner, at HINZ 2014, 11 November 2014, 4.30pm, Marlborough Room
1. Africa eHealth Solutions
Making quality health available to all by
leveraging the power of ICT
AeHS
Andrew Muga and Nic Moens
Directors AeHS
www.africaehs.org
+255745240818 (Tz)- +31630433472 (NL) nic.aehs@gmail.com
1 st Floor, The Arcade Building, Old Bagamoyo Road, Dar es Salaam (Tz)
| Mulderslaan 17 Veenendaal (NL)
2. AeHS is a network of impact driven, social
businesses that develops and maintains new software
solutions and services for curative and preventive
health services.
Main activity:
Installation of eHIS in
hospitals (based on
Afya Pro software)
Other activities:
- Preventive health
- Data base systems for result
based financing programmes
- Telemedicine
- New business development
4. AeHS present in:
Tanzania: AfyaPro has been integrated in
the daily operations of 28 facilities. Number of
users (health professionals) 1320, number of
patients served about 1,4 million. AeHS-Tz is joint
venture between NPK Technologies and Christian
Social Services Commission.
Zimbabwe: AfyaPro is the central system in a wider Results-
based Financing solution financed by the World Bank and
deployed at 6 facilities. AeHS-Zimbabwe is based on ICT
Warehouse.
Malawi: Afya Pro is used in 7 health facilities. The AeHS-
Malawi partner is a young company called Hyper Tech.
AeHS-International has a significant network in all yellow
marked countries ( ), based on joint projects in the
countries over past 15 years.
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5. Use Case: Nyakahanga District Hospital
Lutheran Church Hospital, providing, preventive
services and curative services (including: laboratory,
radiology, pharmacy, etc. and outreach
services/clinics). Permanent staff 254 and hospital
capacity is 224 patients’ beds.
Since 2013, the hospital started to use Afya Pro, which
is now completely implemented and covering all
services.
The impact study states: The doctor in charge of
Nyakahanga hospital, together with his board has a
strong positive attitude toward the eHIS AfyaPro.
6. What it meant in Nyakahanga
• More income, better data, better management and
quality of care. Other benefits:
• At the start the staff was computer illiterate, now they are
competent.
• Intransparent/corrupt behaviour replaced by renumeration for
performance.
• Only payment of drugs actual received.
• No confusion on payments (was a big point of unrest in the
community).
• Proper management of stocks and timely re-supply
• Better use of time and capacity.
• An old nurse notes:
“After exposure to the computer through Afya Pro, I decided to learn more and
so I bought my own laptop. My children and husband respect me because I
have learnt to use a computer at my advanced age. We use the laptop at home
and I am able to help my children with the basics”.
7. • Accurate data is rare
In all participating facilities staff members and managers state
that AfyaPro enabled them to have immediate and accurate
data. This resulted in better reporting, decision-making,
planning and management of the health facility.
And through accurate data, better negotiation
with government is possible.
• Heavy income losses due to
intransparancies/under the counter
payments With Afya Pro the revenues from cash
payments by patients increase by 50- 200%.
• Losses from stocks, no control on staff
Pharmacy module controls stocks.
Staff performance can be traced.
Less errors in patient files and more time
for treatment improves quality of care.
• Business case: payback between 1-2 years!
The problems solved by Afya Pro also take away main
causes of a poor health system in Africa:
8. Strong points of AeHS:
• Strong international network, exchanging
solutions, best practices, and
programming/implementation capacity;
• Highly interoperable software. Active
collaboration and connecting software of third
parties
• Semi-open source, international exchange of
software solutions
• Blending local development and programming
capacity with the latest technology insights;
• Robust and practical solutions in view of local
circumstances;
• Long track record with succesfull and
sustainable implementations;
• Scientific community to generate best practices
and research on (social) impact
• AeHS is an engine for innovation
Business case AeHS-International:
- Income from enrollment fees and
subscription fees
- Income from tenders and new business
development
- Social through pro-poor activities, knowledge
sharing and health systems strengthening
Business case national member organizations:
- Consultancy fees for implementation,
maintenance and additional services.
More
solutions
and users
More
affordable
More best
practices
More
capacity
More
practical
innovation
This creates a reinforcing
loop in terms of
functionalities, affordability,
maintenance and number
of users!
9. A goal for AeHS is to be able to fully support the local setting with
interoperable eHealth applications; Smart Community Health
Community health
Telemedicine
District Health M & E
Info and prevention
Referral
Local logistics
Hospital as center with
reach-out and feedback
10. DESIGN
PRINCIPLES
Afya Pro will be powered by the VitalHealth
Platform (based on corporate social responsibility)
OPEN
CONFIGURE
APPS
MODEL
BASED
HEALTHCARE
ONLY
CLOUD
BASED
XML
DRIVEN
Wide variety of
integration options
HL7 vs 2, 3 FHIRR, CCD,
DICOM, …
Decoupling of design
and runtime
Data and context
are kept together
Multi tenant
Private and public cloud
Amazon, Azure, Enovation, …
No code development
earlier results
Quickly adapt to
changes
Continuous change
management
Designed for global
healthcare market
Archetypes, ICD, Snowmed,
LOINC, …
Vital Health is a collaboration between Mayo Clinics (USA) and Noabor Foundation (NL)