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    Leveraging Information Technology to Bridge the Health Workforce Gap

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    2013-11
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    Bollinger, Robert
    Chang, Larry
    Jafari, Reza
    O’Callaghan, Thomas
    Ngatia, Peter
    Settle, Dykki
    McKenzie-White, Jane
    Patel, Kunal
    Dossalf, Amir
    Al Shorbajig, Najeeb
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    According to some estimates, the world needs more than 4 million additional physicians, nurses, pharmacists, laboratory technicians, midwives, community health workers (CHWs) and other front-line health workers.1 However, there is also a shortage of faculty that can provide high-quality training and mentorship for current training programmes2 and continuing education opportunities for health workers. The use of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) can help to overcome these challenges.3,4 Recent global investments in fibre and wireless infrastructure, as well as innovations in e-learning, electronic health (eHealth) and mobile health (mHealth) and in the social media, can be leveraged to train, deploy, support and empower health workers.4–8 The International Telecommunication Union estimates that, in only four years (2007–2011), mobile broadband subscriptions in the developing world increased by more than tenfold: from 43 million to 458 million. Mobile devices and internet access are becoming increasingly necessary professional tools for health-care workers at all levels in developing countries. New fibre and wireless infrastructure, as well as the rapid growth of computer processing power, provide an unprecedented opportunity to scale up health worker training and improve its quality, as well as to optimize health service delivery and strengthen health systems.

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    Community health workers (CHWs); Information and communication technologies (ICTs); E-learning, electronic health (eHealth), mobile health (mHealth); Wireless; Electronic medical records; Video conferencing; Webcasting
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    ResearchGate
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