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REGIONAL MINISTERIAL MEETING
ON
"E-HEALTH"
IN
AFRICA
ACCRA,
GHANA, 10-11
JUNE
2009Message delivered by
Dr
Abdelhay
Mechbal
on
behalf of
the
World Health
Organjzation
Honorable Vice President, Republic
of
GhanaHonorable MinistersHonorable DelegatesDear Colleagues and Participants
in
the meetingIt's my pleasure to
convoy
to you the best regards
of
Dr
Margaret Chan, DG
of
WHO
and herregret for not been able to be with you today.This meeting, represents a milestone
in
a series
of
regional consultations leading to the Economicand Social Council's Annual Ministerial Review to be held
in
Geneva
in
July 2009, as it brings a
number
of
cross-cutting issues together.
The
health sector being knowledge-intensive and requiring systematic and sustained collection
of
data, its analysis and the utilization
of
infonnation for decision
making,
highlights the timeliness
of
having this meeting on eHealth. Use
of
information and communication technology has
become
of
strategic importance to enable collection,generation, and utilization
of
information. In2005 the World Health Assembly adopted ResolutionWHA58.28establishing an eHealthstrategy for WHO.
The
resolution calls on governments to
fonn
national eHealth bodies to guidepolicy and strategy development in eHealth including data security, privacy, interoperability,cultural and linguistic issues, infrastructure,funding, monitoring and evaluation.
WHO
has been working with UN sister agencies and pal1ners to implement eHealth systems andservices.
Among
these has been the International telecommunication Union and the EuropeanCommission.
And many
others presents in today's meeting.
WHO
has initiated a
number
of
activities and projects aiming at supporting member states in theirefforts to develop and sustain eHealth at the national level.
The
World Health Report 2008 andthe progress reports on Millennium Development Goals have identified the use
of
ICT as anenabler and a tool to enhance equity and universal access to health services.
The
use
of
Internet topromote health literacy, the use
of
databases to monitor progress, the use
of
tele-health to reachout to remote communities, the use
of
mobile phones to monitor health situation and diseasesurveillance and the wide spread
of
e-learning programmes, health mapping and geographicinformation systems are
just
examples
of
how eHealth can support health systems and services.
Among
the global activities that are ongoing within
WHO
in
this field are:
J. 
eHealth governance. Building and promoting governancestructures that address therights
of
individuals,rules and responsibilities
of
national,regional and globalorganizations
in
the networked world;
2. 
eLearning and access to health and biomedical research. HINARI is a public privatepartnership that enables low and mid income countries to access
over
6000 medical
journals
free or at a very low cost
in
J
08 worldwide
Of
wich 40 in Africa.
 
REGIONAL MINISTERIAL MEETING ON"E-HEALTU" IN AFRICAACCRA, GHANA, 10-11 JUNE 2009
Message
delivered by
Dr
Abdelhay Mechbal on behalf
of
the World Health Organization
Honorable Vice President, Republic
of
GhanaHonorable MinistersHonorable DelegatesDear Colleagues and Participants
in
the meetingIt's my pleasure to convoy to you the best regards
of
Dr Margaret Chan, DG
of
WHO
and herregret for not been able to be with you today.This meeting, represents a milestone
in
a series
of
regional consultations leading to the Economicand Social Council's Annual Ministerial Review to be held
in
Geneva
in
July 2009,as it brings a
number
of
cross-cutting issues together.
The
health sector being knowledge-intensive and requiring systematic and sustained collection
of
data, its analysis and the utilization
of
information for decision
making,
highlights the timeliness
of
having this meeting on eHealth. Use
of
information and communication technology has
become
of
strategic importance to enable collection, generation, and utilization
of
information. In2005 the World Health Assembly adopted ResolutionWHA58.28establishing an eHealthstrategy for WHO.
The
resolution calls on governments to form national eHealth bodies to guidepolicy and strategy development in eHealth including data security, privacy, interoperability,cultural and linguistic issues, infrastructure,funding, monitoring and evaluation. WHO has been working with UN sister agencies and partners to implement eHealth systems andservices.
Among
these has been the International telecommunication Union and the EuropeanCommission.
And many
others presents
in
today's meeting.
WHO
has initiated a
number
of
activities and projects aiming at supporting
member
states
in
theirefforts to develop and sustain eHealth at the national level.
The
World Health RepOIt 2008 andthe progress reports on Millennium Development Goals have identified the use
ofICT
as anenabler and a tool to enhance equity and universal access to health services.
The
use
ofInternet
topromote health literacy, the use
of
databases to monitor progress, the use
oftele-health
to reachout to remote communities, the use
of
mobile phones to monitor health situation and diseasesurveillance and the wide spread
of
e-Iearning programmes, health mapping and geographicinformation systems are
just
examples
of
how eHealth can support health systems and services.
Among
the global activities that are ongoing within WHO
in
this field are:
1. 
eHealth governance. Building and promoting governance structures that address therights
of
individuals, rules and responsibilities
of
national, regional and globalorganizations in the networked world;
2. 
eLearning and access to health and biomedical research. HINARI
is
a public privatepartnership that enables low and mid income countries to access
over 6000
medical
journals
free or at a very low cost
in
108 worldwide
Of
wich 40
in
Africa.
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