gdhub VOICES GDHUB

gdhub voices #8

In #cancercare, digital health is enabling and improving many factors, from decentralization to quality of diagnostics. But #digitalhealth alone is not the solution, it has to be an integrated part of the big picture. 

Mathieu Morand from the City Cancer Challenge Foundation discussed this and more in our latest episode of #gdhub VOICES with host Cléo Schwerzmann.

The #HealthDataPrinciples are the result of a global collaborative effort: over 200 digital health experts from 130 organisations around the world came together to develop these Principles in an inclusive, bottom-up process stewarded by Transform Health.

These principles will launch on April 7th 2022, but you can already learn more about these in this #gdhub episode:  Kirsten Mathieson, Policy Lead at Transform Health, is providing insights into the development of the ‘Health Data Governance Principals’, a set of globally unifying, human rights-based Health Data Governance Principles that can provide a common vision for health data governance. Hosted by Cléo Schwerzmann (gdhub).

#openIMIS is a success story. 

The open-source software solution for social protection schemes was originally created in 2012 in Tanzania but has since grown to be implemented in numerous countries reaching over 8 million beneficiaries.

In episode #5 of gdhub VOICES, our guests Olivier Praz from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Saurav Bhattarai from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) share valuable insights from the last years and give us their take on how and why OpenIMIS will continue to increase its impact. Hosted by Clèo Schwerzmann (gdhub).

We cannot understand the impact of cyberattacks if we don’t have the data, and oftentimes, if we have the data, it comes from the perpetrator themselves. The Cyber Incident Tracer #HEALTH aims to show the trends and the evidence of the disruption to inform decision-making. 

Klara Jordan from the Cyberpeace Institute discussed this and more in our latest episode of gdhub VOICES with host Dr. Caroline Perrin (gdhub).

An electronic Decision Support System provides guidance for healthcare workers, improving interactions with patients, rational antibiotic prescriptions, and consultations overall. But what exactly makes this tool so successful? And how can it be adapted to various contexts? Anteia Win from Médecins sans frontières (MSF) - Doctors without Borders shares answers to these questions and more with host Dr. Caroline Perrin (gdhub).