Workshop on ICT and Health Information Management, Telemedicine and Mobile Health
The Ghana ICT for Accelerated Development (ICT4AD) Policy which represents the Vision for Ghana in the information age has as its overall objective to engineer an ICT-led socio-economic development process with the potential to transform Ghana into a middle income, information-rich, knowledge-based and technology driven economy and society. The Strategic Focus of the Policy is to simultaneously target the development of the ICT sector and industry as well as use ICTs as a broad-based enabler of developmental goals, with emphasis on the development, deployment and exploitation of ICTs to aid the development of all other sectors of the economy.
Despite the fact that this ICT4D policy has been in place over the years, very little has been achieved in terms of mainstreaming ICTs fully into the health sector of the country especially the areas of using ICT tools to manage records of patients’ and general health information management as well as telemedicine and mobile health.
It is to create the awareness about the enormous benefits that the country will derive if she fully integrates ICT into the health delivery system of Ghana that the Ghana Information Network for Knowledge Sharing (GINKS) through its partner organisation, Savana Signatures is organising this sensitization workshop.
DATE: Friday, 16th December 2010
VENUE: Savelugu Nantong District Assembly Hall, Savelugu Nantong District, Ghana.