HELINA 2011: Conference Presentations Available

HELINA 2011, the 7th Health Informatics in Africa Conference, was held on  28th – 30th November 2011 in Yaounde, Cameroon, with the theme “Health Information Systems: Scaling up solutions to transform healthcare delivery in Africa”.

PDF versions of the conference presentations are available for download at the HELINA website – see http://www.helina-online.org or direct at http://www.helina-online.org/en/conferences/handouts.html

Among the presentations available, which address health informatics experiences from a wide range of African countries, are:

• Ethical issues in telemedicine – Dr Walinjom FT Muna, Cameroon Association for Telemedicine
• National roll out of District Health Information Software (DHIS 2), central server and cloud based infrastructure in Kenya, 2011 – Ayub Manya, Ministry of Health, Kenya
• Interoperability and Standards – Dr Christopher Seebregts, Medical Research Council, South Africa
• Integrated HIS architecture of interoperable systems: Sierra Leone and West Africa- Johan Saebo, Edem Kossi, Jorn Braa
• Health Informatics Capacity Development through South-South, North-South and South-North Collaboration: The INDEHELA Experience – Mikko Korpela (Finland), Retha de la Harpe (South Africa), Emilio Mosse (Mozambique) and Abimbola Soriyan (Nigeria).

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