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Healthcare Information for All by 2015: Preliminary findings and future direction
Information Development (2014)
  • Christine Hagar, San Jose State University
  • Heather Kartzinel, San Jose State University
Abstract
This paper reports on the Mobile Healthcare Information For All By 2015 (mHIFA) initiative led by the Health Information For All 2015 (HIFA2015) 2012-2015 Challenge Working Group. It discusses the preliminary findings of a scoping exercise to identify global current, completed and planned projects that use mobile phones to provide healthcare information, particularly maternal, child and first-aid, in low- and middle-income countries, that appear to be aligned to the mHIFA Goal. Despite a plethora of mHealth projects on a wide range of mHealth topics, only nine projects were closely related to the mHealthcare Goal. Findings of the scoping exercise were made available on the HIFA2015 Discussion Forums to instigate feedback from key healthcare and telecom stakeholders. An assessment tool was created to help telecom providers and potential providers to assess relevance to the mHIFA Goal.
Keywords
  • mHealth,
  • low- and middle-income countries,
  • healthcare,
  • HIFA2015,
  • mobile phones
Publication Date
September 19, 2014
DOI
10.1177/0266666914550493
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Citation Information
Christine Hagar and Heather Kartzinel. "Healthcare Information for All by 2015: Preliminary findings and future direction" Information Development Vol. 32 Iss. 3 (2014) p. 354 - 361 ISSN: 0266-6669
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christine_hagar/26/