Source (Online) Child malnutrition is one of the most critical challenges facing Nigeria’s future. Stunting, a key indicator of chronic malnutrition, can irreversibly damage a child’s physical and cognitive development. While national statistics provide a necessary overview, they often conceal the specific, localized crises that demand our urgent attention. Malnutrition is one of the most[...]
ETL stands for Extract, Transform and Load. It’s a data integration process in which data is firstly acquired from one or multiple data sources, then changed or processed and is finally loaded into the data warehouse, databases, and other files such as PDF, Excel or other target systems. The easiest way to understand how ETL[...]
(Image source: robotics and automation news) Last month, we shared insights on how Virtual Reality (VR) can aid phobia treatment in the healthcare industry. In this post, we will take a look at another use case in VR and the focus would be on medical training in the 21st century. With the advent of new[...]
Imagine a scenario where you have a phobia for something (example fear of flying), and this could be solved by just sitting in a controlled environment, watching a movie or playing a game. Don’t you think that would be awesome? Although it’s not as simple as it sounds, virtual reality technology can help people get[...]
Digital technologies usage can be seen today at all levels of preventive care in low and middle income countries. They are used to improve outcomes by assisting health workers to maximize output, prioritize and allocate healthcare resources, predict at-risk populations and prevent high risks of poor outcomes when planning interventions. Suicide remains one of the[...]
Feeding our senses a stimulus that is so similar to what we see in reality, that we interpret it as reality. In all other mediums, your consciousness is interpreting a medium to go to my site. But in VR there is no gap. You aren’t internalizing it. You are internal in it. It’s a quantum[...]
The world is advancing, innovations and technology has improved the way of living. We now belong to an era where digitalization has helped the way we see and think. Let’s talk telehealth!!! According to Wikipedia, telehealth is the distribution of health-related services via electronic information and telecommunication technologies. It allows long-distance patient and clinician contact, care,[...]
OUR NOVEMBER 2020 DHIS2 TRAINING – BEGINNER TO ADVANCED LEVEL Image 1: DHIS2 Training Source: eHealth4everyoneeHealth4everyone’s DHIS2 Beginner to Advanced level training was a three-day training held from the 25th to 27th of November, 2020, in Abuja, Nigeria. The DHIS2 training was organized to build the capacity and skills of persons interested in Data Management, Public[...]
Image 1: Field agent using a mobile data collection application in Northern Nigeria. Source: www.agshare.today Conducting field data collection can be a complex process that demands a lot of human and financial resources. A project lead has to create forms that are precisely defined and unambiguous, as well as plan and coordinate field operations for[...]
Nigeria’s National Health Act 2014 aims to substantially increase revenue and improve Primary Health Care (PHC) services through the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF). To ensure proper implementation of the BHCPF, it became necessary to have strategies in place to enable accountability between different stakeholders responsible for implementation at national, state, local government area and[...]
