ICT for Health

Some useful e-Health sites

• ICT4D's malaria site
• The Primary Care Electronic Library at St. George's, University of London. Lists over 1,000 internet sites relevant to primary health care.
• Interactive database on HIV-AIDS educational resources developed in partnership between Imfundo, Interactive Health Network and IBE (UNESCO)
• CellScope - research from UC Berkeley on cell-phone microscopes for use in rural areas
• Global Health Council
• The Communication Initiative's Health Window
• UNAIDS
• International eHealth Association
• Kaiser Network - health policy as it happens
• WHO's statistical information system
• UK eHealth Association
• International Medical Informatics Association
• Health Informatics Worldwide
• Health on the Net Foundation
• David Crespo's mHealth site
• Hodges Health Career-Care Domains model developed by Peter Jones - provides links to a wide range of health related sites

Africa

• Soul City, South Africa
• Webcast of 2003 African Union Summit Forum on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
• Imfundo's CD ROM on malaria prevention and treatment undertaken for the Government of Tanzania
• Telemedicine Research Centre, Medical Research Council, South Africa
• Telemedicine in rural Uganda
• University of Transkei Telemedicine Unit
• HELINA-L Health Informatics in Africa - bulletin board on use of informatics to help healthare in Africa

Asia

• Khushii Telemedicare
• Jiva's Teledoc sustainable healthcare for rural India
• Ca:sh - Community Access to Sustainable Health - Open Source software for medical data - developed in India
• UNESCAP paper on telemedicine in China

Latin America

• Pan-American Health Organization
• Brazilian Society for Health Informatics (in Portuguese)

About the Collective in your own language:

Resources

• Shinda Malaria - animated magazines in Kiswahili on malaria prevention
• Undergraduates on the ICT4D course at Royal Holloway, University of London have recently completed health related web-sites:
  • Eyes for development
  • Yellow Fever in Africa
  • Waterborne disease advice centre
• Cisco healthcare industry solutions
• I4D Online - April 2006 issue with much information on eHealth across the world

Organisations providing medical assistance

• Medical Assistance in Africa (MDH) - a non-profit NGO providing medical assistance to needy people in rural areas of Africa
• Médecins Sans Frontières