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Investing in Digital Public Goods to Help Achieve Health for All
The Center is investing in open-source tech-based solutions that can be replicated in local contexts and are helping to extend the reach and capacity of the health workers to focus on where they can have the best and highest value.
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The Tech Social Enterprise Changing the Way Community Health Workers Deliver Care
An ‘offline-first’ health tech platform from reach52 is allowing community health workers to collect health data even in low-connectivity areas and to use the data to deliver targeted health services.
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Voices From the Front Line
FamilyConnect : A Ministry of Health Initiative Connecting Women and Children to Healthcare Services in Uganda
Mobile phones have become a major enabler for governments to provide quality health services to the population. One such tool is FamilyConnect, used by the Ministry of Health in Uganda to improve the uptake of reproductive and child health services in public health facilities.
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Praekelt.org’s HealthConnect for COVID-19 Illustrates Importance of Investing in Technology that Strengthens Health Systems
How a small organization was able to quickly implement a ground-breaking communications strategy for WHO in the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic
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Re-imagining Health Services for the Digital Age
What could health services look like in the digital age? And how can we ensure that health workers are supported, and not simply disrupted?
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Turning the Tide on COVID-19 Through Smart Digital Solutions
The Johnson & Johnson Center for Health Worker Innovation and VillageReach have collaborated to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 through digital solutions that improve access to accurate COVID-19 information for people across the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi and Mozambique, and provided remote training on COVID-19 for over 15,000 health workers.
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Global Interventions
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The Duality of Digital Self-Care: Decreasing Health Worker Workloads, While Increasing Access to Care for Clients
Digital technology, when applied well, serves to extend the reach of health workers and to reinforce and enhance relationship-driven in-person care, not to fully replace it.
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Innovation in Maternal Health Services During COVID-19
The Center is supporting partners such as ARMMAN and m2m use digital technology to extend maternal health services during COVID-19—and to safeguard these services against future health crises.
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Five Lessons From a Decade of Supporting Mothers in Low-Resource Settings With Technology
For over a decade I was fortunate to manage a portfolio of global programs funded through the Johnson & Johnson Foundation that have worked to educate and empower pregnant women and new mothers in low-resource settings by providing vital health information through mobile technology.
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