Ghana Health Informatics Association

02/01/2017

A fresh new year is once again upon us. It’s the time to be thankful for the blessings of the past year and to take stock of all our achievements. At the same time, New Year 2017 is a brand new year to start afresh, to start strong, and yet another chance to do everything we want to do this year.

01/08/2016

20/05/2015

Congratulations Eli for the timely prompt.
As Health Informaticians, its part of our responsibility to work in harmony towards developing m-Health potentials in Ghana.
Please read the following write up (of the year 2009) that touched on some of the potentials of m-Health in Ghana.
The time for action is now.
http://erhd.org/cgi/erhd/img/ROLE%20OF%20MOBILE%20PHONE%20TECHNOLOGY%20IMPROVING%20TREATMENT%20OUTCOME%20IN%20GHANA.pdf

11/05/2015

*******mHealth and Physicians******

Physicians have always had to be accessible — so they have been rapid adopters of the latest in mobile technology. Years ago, answering services and call centers were the gatekeepers that could get your message to the doctor, if your emergency warranted it. Then came beepers and, later, the first wave of voice-only mobile phones. Today, physicians are rapidly adopting smartphones and tablet computers (for example, one research house says 81% of US physicians use smartphones: American Medical Association, 2012).
But it’s still early in the adoption of smart mobile technology for health care, or what International Data Corporation (IDC) calls “clinical mobility,” and there is a wide range of mHealth uses for physicians. These begin with basic telehealth applications that provide voice or SMS access to medical advice from remote areas (with many examples in the developing world), and simple appointment-scheduling apps. More transformative uses have begun to appear as well, such as mobile telemetry apps that constantly gather and transmit a person’s vital statistics in real time, or mobile e-prescribing apps. Still very rare are emerging mobile collaboration apps that will eventually enable simultaneous real-time access to the latest medical data, patient history and specialist video consultations.

30/04/2015

Current Situation of mHealth

******Mobility leads multiple technologies ready to enable health care********

In fact, multiple technology megatrends support smart mobility’s health care role, including cloud computing (which could provide mobile access to health information and applications), social networks (which have already begun to provide patientcentric information sharing and peer support) and big data analytics (which could provide anywhere, anytime diagnostic insights). And importantly, these technologies are ready to help now. Their value in support of the three primary goals driving health care change — lowering cost, improving outcomes and increasing access — has been demonstrated in a multitude of small pilots and related examples, although these generally lack the size and control group comparisons that health care industry stakeholders require before widespread adoption.

26/03/2015

mHealth (Mobile Health)..What is it? Let's Talk about it. Smart mobile technology is poised to transform global health care with a little help from other technology megatrends, such as social networking, cloud computing and big data analytics.
"mobile devices and applications, working in concert with cloud computing, social networking and big data analytics, will be at the core of global health care transformation. These transformative technologies will continue to lead with ways to help rein in cost, broaden access, change behaviors and improve outcomes.”
Pat Hyek, Global Technology Industry Leader (Ernst & Young)

25/03/2015

Gala

25/03/2015

Proceedings and memorable pictures

25/03/2015

Good morning to all of you. Indeed history has been made as far as health informatics is concerned in Ghana. The much talked about and awaited HELINA Conference had been successfully organized at the ISSER Conference Centre from 7th – 11th March, 2015.

Apparently, we could not have accomplish this without your incredible support. In line with this, I will like to on behalf of the GHIA Council and Executives, extend our deepest and profound gratitude to all of you for your unmeasurable and timely support.

27/01/2015

As the days gradually roll by, the HELINA Conference (March 7-11) draws near and more energy is being pushed into ensuring its fruition. Acting on the feedback from members, the executives in consultation with HELINA reviewed the conference participation fees to ONLY GHIA MEMBERS.

a) Members - GH₵ 350.00
b) Students/Members who just completed school - GH₵ 100.00

We seriously encourage all members to pay-up their participation fees through the following account details:

BANK: GCB
BRANCH: TETTEH QUARSHIE CIRCLE
ACCOUNT NAME: GHANA HEALTH INFORMATICS
ASSOCIATION
ACCOUNT NO: 1261120013533

In other to confirm your registration, kindly do the following:

1) Click on www.ghanahia.org
2) On the left pane, click on Payment Confirmation Form
3) Complete the form and send

After confirming, your payments, we will send you a confirmation message within two (2) working days and then you are ready to go.

I will once again like to appeal to all members to demonstrate their commitment in deeds to ensure that our collective interest of making GHIA a household name is realized.

Ghana Health Informatics Association (GHIA) was Incorporated under the laws of Ghana in 2011. It currently has a membership strength of over 300. It has undertaken series of stakeholder discussions with the Ministry of Health, Ghana Health Service and other relevant professional groupings. GHIA is a…