eHealth Nigeria is Hiring! Project Manager for PMTCT Initiative in Kano State.
eHealth Nigeria, with support from Family Health International and the Population Council, is leading an mHealth Initiative to improve the coverage of PMTCT services in Kano State, Nigeria.
For the position of “Community Mobilization Program Officer”, we are looking for a skilled project manager with experience in health program management. Speaking Hausa is a requirement, experience in PMTCT is very helpful, Public Health experience is greatly desired, candidate will need to possess excellent written and oral communication skills, also familiarity with computers is necessary.
Salary range will be =N= 130,000 to =N= 190,000 monthly depending on experience.
Please contact info@ehealthnigeria.org with you inquiries.
A detailed job description is available here: Job Description: Community Mobilization Program Officer
Edge of Joy Film Documents Maternal Health Issues at Kano Hospital
Dawn Shapiro’s Film, The Edge of Joy, takes a look inside the Murtala Mohammad Specialist Hospital in Kano, Nigeria.
From the website:
The Edge of Joy is a documentary film that follows an ensemble cast of Nigerian doctors, midwives and families to the frontlines of maternal care.
Inside a maternity ward, the film chronicles distressed labors, deaths, and miraculous survival. Outside, lack of blood supply transportation and family planning are examined as causes of the cycle that kills more than 36,000 Nigerian women each year.
The central characters in The Edge of Joy are the people deep within the Nigerian culture who know its misconceptions, its limitations, but also its capabilities. Narrated by award winning journalist, Eliza Griswold, and featuring animation by Yoni Goodman, this portrait of pregnancy and childbirth shows the consequences of poor maternal health as it explores the nuances and complexities of bringing emerging health technologies to the developing world.
“‘The Edge of Joy’ is a timely rallying cry against women accepting the perilous status quo.” Global Health Magazine
Watch the Trailer and PBS Newshour Segment
Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour.
1st Year Evaluation of Kaduna EMR System
eHealth Nigeria just finished the 1 Year Evaluation of the Family Health Unit Demonstration Clinic (part of the Shehu Idris College of Health Sciences and Technology) in Tudun Wada, Kaduna Nigeria. The assessment visit on July 14, 2010 was set up to determine how the EMR system is currently being used, assess the EMR advantages and disadvantages, and determine how to improve the system.
The 3 main accomplishments of the EMR implementation are:
- By having access to accurate information, staff is taking the initiative to find more ways to use that data to increase awareness and improve work at the clinic such as making bar graphs and pie charts
- Staff are inspired by the effect the EMR system has on data collection and are asking to use the EMR in more departments
- Entering data into the EMR system is making data collection more accurate and allowing staff to discover problems with data collection, which can then be corrected.
The full report and survey results are available for feedback and comments.
Also check out Evelyn’s blog about the Assessment Visit.
Update:
Final Version of Evaluation Report now uploaded.
eHealth Nigeria Newsletters Online
The 2nd Monthly Newsletter for the eHealth Nigeria team has gone out to our email list subscribers. If you have missed these be sure to check them out online:
If you haven’t had a chance to subscribe you can do so easily using our CiviCRM site.
Returning to Nigeria
To support the improvement of Maternal and Reproductive Health in Northern Nigeria our team will be returning to Nigeria for a 6-month implementation and research phase, July – December 2010. We will pilot the new “Instant EMR” (electronic medical records) with Hospitals in Katsina State as well as deploy the first version of the Nigerian Health Information Exchange (NHIE). The primary research projects will be 1) quantifying the resource, time, and financial cost of health information management and 2) understanding the information and decision making needs of maternal/reproductive health care workers.
Also checkout the most recent press about eHealth Nigeria: “Health sciences student wins $10,000 award to support her work in Nigeria“.
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Moving on the the Finals – UCSC Business Plan
The eHealth Nigeria Team presented a business plan to the UCSC Business Plan competition Semi-Finals. A wonderful panel of Santa Cruz area leaders asked great questions and gave important feedback. eHealth Nigeria will be moving on to the Finals (to be held May 21, 2010)!!
eHealth Nigeria is a CITRIS Big Ideas Finalist (2010)
eHealth Nigeria will be presenting a poster at the CITRIS White Paper Competition at UC Berkeley on April 22nd, 2010. Please join us to learn more about our past and future work and to share your feedback.
See more at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/bigideasposter2010
SICHST Family Health Unit OpenMRS Implementation
For those looking to dive into OpenMRS you can now download and quickly set up the eHealth Nigeria pilot system from the Kaduna, Nigeria. This system implements most of the collection and reporting indicators for Maternal Health as set forth by the Kaduna State Ministry of Health.
You will find the necessary details http://ehealthnigeria.org/implementations/.
We will have more information on-line soon, including scans of past and current paper forms, the HTML forms, and the XForms files.
