Inter-sectoral collaboration, commitment, and action are crucial to strengthening regional diagnostic capacity to tackle Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) detection and surveillance in the Caribbean. This is the objective of a two-year Cooperation among Countries for Health Development (CCHD) project between the Government of Argentina,…
This morning Head of the EU Delegation to Jamaica, Belize, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bahamas and the Cayman Islands, Ambassador Her Excellency Malgorzata Wasilewska, visited the PAHO/WHO Country Office to meet with PAHO/WHO Representative, Dr Noreen Jack, and the PAHO team. Accompanied by Mr Nicolaus Hansmann, Team Leader, EU Technical Office in…
A project being developed by the Ministry of Health, Environment and Nature (HEN) of Curaçao is creating an electronic system that physicians and health care institutions can use for timely, consistent and correct reporting of causes of death and communicable diseases. The project, one of the winners of the winners of the call for proposals for…
One of the main challenges for the health sector in Nicaragua is the integration of information from diagnostic laboratories with surveillance systems. To help improve this process, from October 2017 the validation and subsequent implementation of the Laboratory Information Management System (SMIL), an automated system developed by the Ministry of…
The medical records system at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital is antiquated and cumbersome. The entire process remains paper-based and with tens of thousands of medical records kept on-site. Indeed, all records since 1984 remain stored at the facility. The increase in temporary staffing necessary to handle the influz of paper forms has…
July 16, 2019 - Belize has achieved a 99,8% reduction in indigenous cases between 2000 and 2018, from 1486 to three. As of July 2019, Belize reported zero indigenous malaria cases which confirms the possibility of having eliminated the disease by 2020 as projected by the Pan-American Health Organization/World Health Organization PAHO/WHO.…
To design a model of sustainable intersectoral action aimed at strengthening actions for the elimination of malaria in the state of Campeche, supported by a dynamic and open access information system for health that facilitates its good management and leadership. This is the objective of a project developed in the Dr. Federico Gómez Children's…
A project to design an electronic application with the potential of integration to electronic records was one of the winners of the call for proposals for the implementation of IS4H projects promoted by the Pan American Health Organization. Developed by the Department of Biomedical Informatics of the University of Utah, in the United States,…
Medical Mission Primary Health Care of Suriname has a project to improve data quality for evidence based decision making that seeks to develop and implement a web based routine Health Information System that enables real-time collecting, registration and reporting of surveillance data, to ensure a timely response on public health emergencies and…