Watch live and recorded webcast at: www.worldbank.org/edevelopment/live (please register at: http://go.worldbank.org/BGZ8XU3KF0 )
Jointly sponsored by World Bank Group, UN Foundation/mHealth Alliance and FNIH, in collaboration with NIH and many others, the World Bank Day @ mHealth Summit will raise awareness of the possibilities for mobile-enabled innovations for improving health care and health care outcomes in developing countries and seeks to:
Contribute to putting m-health on the map of the mainstream public health agenda in developing countries.
Explore options as to how to translate mHealth applications into measurable health outcomes.
Provide concrete examples of experience at the country level – what questions to ask, what to look for, what tools are available, and what are the policy implications for implementation.
Establish a basis for future collaboration and continued dialogue on mHealth.
This unique one-day workshop will bring together lessons, innovations, and perspectives from over 30 practitioners and policy makers from key organization in the m-Health field. The workshop will discuss specific case studies and country perspectives on mHealth and address scaling up mobile innovations in World Bank Health Sector Projects. World Bank @ mHealth Day is an integral part of the mHealth Summit focusing on Mobile Technologies as a platform for health research and health care delivery. The mHealth Summit is an unprecedented event that will bring together researchers, policy-makers, collaborators and visionaries from around the world to exchange ideas, novel approaches, research and findings surrounding mHealth issues both in the United States and in developing countries.
Register for the webcast at: http://go.worldbank.org/BGZ8XU3KF0