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Action Line IFM
C7: e-Health
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Organised by WHO
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Wednesday 12 May 2010, 11:15–12:45
Room L
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Description
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The World Summit on the
Information Society's Action Line C7 on e-Health calls for
collaborative efforts of governments, planners, health
professionals, and other agencies along with the
participation of international organizations for creating
reliable, timely, high quality and affordable health care
and health information systems . It further calls for
promoting medical training, education, and research through
the use of ICTs, while respecting and protecting citizens’
right to privacy.
Objective of the
meeting:
To review progress and challenges of e-Health 5 years
after the WSIS Tunis phase and to debate about what should
be the priorities for the future.
*English & French interpretation will be
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Programme
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The
Meeting will consist of 3 short presentations followed
by an open debate with the audience in an interactive
Question-and-Answer session.
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11:15-11:30
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Welcome and overview of the
Action Line for e-Health, WHO
This introduction to the Action
line will highlight the main elements and some of the
unforeseen challenges to achieving the WSIS targets.
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11:30-11:45
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WHO's Global e-Health
Survey, Misha Kay, WHO
From building ICT and policy
foundations to deploying experimental projects,
countries are implementing e-Health in a myriad of ways.
This session will share the findings from the World
Health Organization Global Observatory for eHealth 2009
country survey on e-Health. The survey represents a
unique global effort to assess progress, gaps and
approaches countries are taking to address their health
needs using ICTs.
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11:45-12:00
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WHO-ITU-World Bank effort
to support National e-Health Roadmaps, Hani Eskandar,
ITU
Observation of e-Health status in
many countries reflects a landscape of isolated, small
scale applications unable to effectively communicate and
to share information with other health systems or to
scale up to support a larger patient and care provider
base. This isolation can also undermine the ability of
decision makers to understand the health situation in
the country, to drive meaningful planning or to guide
policy formulation. Lack of a strategic framework and
roadmap to guide national e-Health development can
result in uncoordinated efforts, wasted resources and
the failure of e-Health solutions to achieve desired
health outcomes. In this session, a new joint effort
between WHO-ITU-World Bank to support the elaboration of
National e-Health Roadmaps will be presented.
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12:00-12:45
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Looking ahead for e-Health:
Hearing from the stakeholders, A Q&A debate facilitated
by Denise Silber, Basil Strategies
What does the future hold for
e-Health? What should be the role of public and private
actors? What are some of the shared challenges and how
could they be addressed? Are the WSIS targets still
relevant? This interactive Question- and-Answer session
with the audience will enable all perspectives to be
heard. Come share your views in this audience debate,
led by e-Health expert and moderator Denise Silber,
Basil Strategies.
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INTERACTIVE FACILITATION MEETING (IFM)
