News on the media

• Aspiran lograr historia clínica electrónica en dos años
  eHealth Reporter, Uruguay, 12 Oct. 2012
• Médicos de UPAs do Rio vão ter ajuda a distância de especialistas
  Estadão, Brasil, 9 Oct. 2012
• Inauguran oficina registral en Hospital de Santa María de Nieva
  Registro Nacional de Identificación y Estado Civil, Peru, 4 Oct. 2012
  
• Ssa lanza campaña de prevención en redes sociales
  El Universal, Mexico, 3 Oct. 2012
• Médicos realizan unas 1.270 consultas por telemedicina anuales
  La Nación, Costa Rica, 29 Sept. 2012

Interviews

Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Assistant Administrator of Global Health at USAID, speaks about eHealth during the CRICS9.

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In Other Regions of WHO

From the Regional Office for Europe

Efforts are currently ongoing for the development of a national eHealth strategy in the Republic of Moldova. WHO, with resources from the Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine are working directly with country representatives in Moldova to shape the strategy development process and ensure that stakeholders within the Ministry of Health receive assistance in addressing key eHealth issues of local importance.

Thailand: eHealth strengthening fight against malaria drug resistance

Recommended Readings

Pan American Health Organization. Strategy and Plan of Acion on eHealth (2012-2017). 51st. Directing Council; 26-30 September 2011; Washington (DC): PAHO; 2011 (resolution CD51/13).

World Health Organization. eHealth [online]. 58th World Health Assembly; 16-25 May 2005; Geneva, Switzerland: WHO; 2005 (resolution WHA58.28).

World Health Organization and the International Telecommunication Union, The National eHealth Strategy Toolkit. Geneva: WHO, ITU; 2012.

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App of the month

eGSHS App: Monitor Children's Health in the Americas
The first PAHO/WHO app for iPhone and iPad allows users to access data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) electronic database. The purpose of the GSHS is to provide accurate data on health behaviors and protective factors among students 13 to 15 years of age concerning alcohol, drugs, diet, hygiene, mental health, physical activity, sexual behaviors, tobacco, violence, and unintentional injuries. This application helps countries and international agencies to compare, visualize and share health indictors in different formats such as tables, bars and trends, in both Spanish and English. Read More...

Notices

• Online Course: Access to Information Sources and Management of Social Networks, Virtual Campus of Public Health, PAHO/WHO (in Spanish)
• Online Course: Using New Media Strategically in response to HIV, JSI Research and Training Institute
• Grant: "Understanding Clinical Information Needs and Health Care Decision Making Processes in the Context of Health Information Technology", Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.
  Closing date: 5 August 2014
• Grant: Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology, National Institutes of Health.
  Closing date: 7 September 2013
• Grant: Small Research Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT), Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.
  Cloinge Date: November 13, 2013

eHealth Experience: Ministry of Health in Peru

The projet Information Systems for the online registry of the Certificate of Live Births is one of the telehealth initiatives in Peru. This innovative project, with the theme "My Right to Identity" enables immidiate registration of the newborn and mother in the delivery room, also including data of the health personnel that participated during childbirth.

Walter Curioso, Director General of the Office of Statistics in the Ministry of Health in Peru, described it as a user-friendly system that requires only a computer, internet and a printer. He said that the project is already running in 44 establishments and it could be in 150 by the end of the year.

This web system for the Registry of Live Births, coordinated by the Ministry of Health and the National Registration of Identity and Civil Status (Reniec), will reduce the amount of errors in issuing inaccurate data and statistics, replace manual registration of the certificate of live birth, and will issue the certificate with an identification number of the newborn. Read More...