Reports
USAID - mHealth Compendium
First edition technical report produced by the US Agency for International Development.
USAID - mHealth Compendium Edition Two
This second volume of the mHealth compendium, produced by the African Strategies for Health Project for USAID in June 2013, contains twenty-seven case studies which document a range of mHealth applications being implemented mainly throughout Africa, but also in other regions.
Modern Communities of Practice
This document provides guidelines for building communities of practice (CoPs).
Building a community
Maintaining a community
Measuring the impact of a community
At the beginning of each section, there are recommendations for how to accomplish that task. After each section, a mini case study illustrates some of the report’s recommendations.
Building foundations for eHealth in Europe
Building Foundations for eHealth in Europe focuses on the information gathered from the European Region and is based on data from the Global Observatory for eHealth's 2005 global eHealth survey as reported in the Building Foundations for eHealth: Progress of Member States.
How to fulfill the true promise of mHealth
How Mobile devices have the potential to become powerful medical tools. by Francis Collins, NIH director, Scientific American, July 2012
Fogarty launches eCapacity program to spur technology use
Global health partnerships that consider local needs and context are vital to speeding research discoveries to people who need them most, according to speakers at the fourth annual meeting of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), held recently in Washington, D.C.
eHealth tools & services: Needs of Member States
The Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe) was established by the World Health Organization in 2005. As its initial task it carried out the first global survey on eHealth. The survey covered seven key themes in the eHealth domain and one of these is the subject of this report which summarizes the needs for eHealth tools and services of the WHO Member States and their expectations from the WHO Secretariat as expressed in the survey. It is targeted at policy makers, eHealth practitioners, researchers, and academics.
ICT4D Journal Ranking Table
This helpful blog has rounded up journals from around the world, and ranked them via a couple different metrics.
Bellagio eHealth Document
The Bellagio Document is an outline of strict criteria by which the effectiveness of worldwide eHealth/mHealth interventions can and should be evaluated.
Global Observatory for eHealth series (website)
The Observatory’s mission is to improve health by providing Member States with strategic information and guidance on effective practices and standards in eHealth.
Foundations of eHealth: Progress
Now for the first time we have global baseline data on the current state of eHealth, and a set of recommendations for Member States. This report Building Foundations for eHealth will contribute significantly to the evidence base.
Those recommendations for action broadly encompass three areas: strengthening the baseline policies for provision of information and communication technologies for health; supporting citizen protection, equity of access, and multilingualism; and promoting the growth of eHealth capacity, tools and services.
Deloitte - mHealth in an mWorld
mHealth brings more than new technologies. It facilitates a new way of interacting and providing health care. Accordingly, an integrated mobile strategy should be a key component of growth strategies for providers, health plans and biopharma and med-device companies. Innovation and platform leadership are widely seen as the two most important capabilities in mobile and any platform adopted needs to be applicable or interoperable across the entire health care industry.
