Healthcare Information For All by 2015

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Permalink Reply by Chris Parkinson on January 6, 2009 at 9:42am

I was surprised to see no discussion on this subject.
The idea concept is brilliant to me.
I'm sure there will be plenty of hurdles considering health care is a government run system.
However, it would please me to see a future global health care system that holds the best interest of the patient at heart.
And all walks of life ... would it be possible?
Best of Luck.
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Permalink Reply by Monterico Adrian on June 2, 2009 at 2:40pm

so, what steps will you do to make this HIFA success?? is there anything i can help? i'm a medical informatics programmer anyway..

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Permalink Reply by Neil Pakenham-Walsh on June 2, 2009 at 10:14pm

Since I last wrote, HIFA2015 has expanded to become a global movement with over 2400 members in 148 countries, ranging from WHO senior executives (over 100 WHO staff memebrs from HQ, regions, country offices) to community health workers. (by the way, HIFA itself is not building a new health information delivery system - there is no magic bullet to this complex issue, and each of HIFA2015's members are themselves *independently* involved in a myriad of different health information delivery projects for different needs of different health workers). Please join us! We need more medical informatics programmers to provide advice to ther members, and also to help us as a community to harness our collective expertise and experience in the HIFA Knowledge Base, which is currently inadequate technically for the task (it is currently flat html - we are aiming to move this to a combination of WordPress-RefBase-Wikimedia).

Note: we are curently running on a shoestring and are almost wholly dependent no violunteers, but have applications pending with Gates and DFID.

Best wishes,
Neil
Dr Neil Pakenham-Walsh MB,BS
Coordinator, HIFA2015
Co-director, Global Healthcare Information Network
16 Woodfield Drive
Charlbury, Oxfordshire OX7 3SE, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1608 811338
Email: neil.pakenham-walsh@ghi-net.org
HIFA2015: http://www.hifa2015.org
http://www.hifa2015.org/2009-challenge

Join HIFA2015 and CHILD2015 - send your name, organisation and brief description of your professional interests to hifa2015-admin@dgroups.org and child2015-admin@dgroups.org (or direct to Neil PW at neil.pakenham-walsh@ghi-net.org )

"Healthcare Information For All by 2015: By 2015, every person worldwide will have access to an informed healthcare provider"

With thanks to our 2009 Sponsors: British Medical Association, Network for Information and Digital Access, Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of Nursing

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