mHEALTH-INNOVATE (36) Do you use your phone to search for healthcare information? track supplies? refer patients?

23 April, 2022

Dear HIFA colleagues,

Thank you everyone for your contributions to the discussion so far! Every message is important and will be considered as we synthesise the discussion in support of the mHEALTH-INNOVATE project, a major research project involving Norwegian research institutes, Makerere University and WHO.

Over the past week we have looked at "How do you use your phone to communicate with colleagues, patients and families?". Please feel free to continue to send messages on this topic.

This week we turn our attention to question 3:

"3. How do you use your phone for other work-related purposes? (eg searching for healthcare information and guidance, tracking supplies, referring patients...)"

Do you use your phone to access healthcare information? If so, can you give an example of *why* you might use it (perhaps to help to make a diagnosis or to find the correct dose of a medicine or to make a clinical care decision?) Do you use it to access health information websites, and which websites do you use most?

To contribute to the discussion, simply reply to this email message or send an email to: hifa@hifaforums.org

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Best wishes, Neil

Joint Coordinator, HIFA mHEALTH-INNOVATE

https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/mhealth-innovate-1-what-can-we-learn-he...

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HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is global coordinator of the HIFA global health movement (Healthcare Information For All - www.hifa.org ), a global community with more than 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting on six global forums in four languages in collaboration with WHO. HIFA brings stakeholders together to accelerate progress towards universal access to reliable healthcare information.

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