eHealth Priorities
and Practice
Mr Mark Landry
Health Information Technical Officer
World Health Organization
Western Pacific Regional Office
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Outline
1 National Level: Strategies and plans
position eHealth for success
2 Regional Level: Technical support,
peer-to-peer assistance, knowledge
sharing and learning
3 Global Level: Tools, standards,
guidance, resolutions, initiatives
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25/30/2016
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Philippines eHealth Framework
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Malaysia ICT for Ministry of Health
VISION FOR HEALTH, BLUEPRINT AND TELEHEALTH POLICY
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIC PLAN
• THIS/HIS
• Nat’l Blood
Bank
• Public
Health Lab
• Training
Colleges
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Program/Function
based initiatives
MSC Flagship
initiatives
• Telehealth
• MyKAD
• HRMIS
• E-Perolehan
• E-SPKB
• PMS
Facility based Initiatives
Health Related
ICT ROAD MAP
•Nationwide
(HMIS)
•Statewide
(TPC)
•Public/Clien
t
•Access
(HOL)
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Malaysia Scenario Of Integrated Health Services
Step 1
Step
1: Access health portal & perform HRA
PLHP created
Step2,2:choice
Choice 1:
1
Step
Contact call centre
Step2,
2: Choice
Choice 22:
Step
Step 33: Consultation, EMR created
Step
Appointment
to see doctor
Individual
Step
Step44: LHR repository
MyKad
Seeking advice at point of care
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CME for decision
support
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Step 5:
5
Step
Data WarehousingSupport Health
&
Financial Planning.
Hong Kong eHealth Consortium
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Asia eHealth Information Network
www.aehin.org
 Launched in August 2012
 Community of eHealth and Health Information
Systems (HIS) professionals in South and
Southeast Asia (200+ members, 25+ countries
to date)
 Peer-to-peer assistance, knowledge learning
and sharing, strategic reuse, optimizing partner
assistance, Webinars, training
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Asia eHealth Information Network
www.aehin.org
2012 – 2017 Strategic Areas:
 Enhance leadership, sustainable governance, and
monitoring and evaluation.
 Increase peer assistance and knowledge exchange and
sharing through effective networking.
 Promote standards and interoperability within and
across countries.
 Build capacity for eHealth, Health Information Systems
(HIS), and Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS)
in the countries and in the region.
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Pacific Health Information Network
www.phinnetwork.org
HIS and eHealth community of professionals across 17 Pacific
Island Countries and Territories focussing on the following
strategic priorities (2011 – 2016)
 Leadership & Multi-Sectoral Governance
 Institutional Capacity and HIS Workforce Development
 HIS Policy, Strategic Plans, and Guidance
 HIS Advocacy and Dissemination
 Data Quality & Evidence-Based Decisions
 Information & Communications Technology
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WHO eHealth Programmes and Projects
www.who.int/ehealth
 World Health Assembly Resolution on eHealth
(WHA58.21) in 2005 by WHO Member States
 Global Observatory of eHealth
 eLearning
 National eHealth Strategy Toolkit
 Standardisation and interoperability
 Resources, governance, Call for Innovation
 Initiatives: Accountability for Women’s and Children’s
Health; mHealth (NCDs, MNCH, family planning)
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Thank You
Mr Mark Landry
(e) landrym@wpro.who.int
(t) +63 2.528.9835
(s) skype.mark.landry
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