On December 11 and 12 December, the 5th Annual Global Digital Health Forum will take place in Washington, DC, USA. The theme for this year’s event looks to the World Health Organization’s “Classification of Digital Health Interventions” as a framework to guide the conversation. The event hosts around 300 attendees, with engaging sessions to connect experts of different fields: government stakeholders, digital health technologists, researchers, donors, implementers from across the globe.…

The Pan-African health informatics conference (HELINA) will be hosted by the Kenya Health Informatics Association (KeHIA) and will focus on how technology is being used to strengthen health systems in the African Region. Issues of specific interest are development and implementation of integrated e-Health plans and policies that enable capacity building for eHealth professionals, improving quality of health information and promotion of the meaningful use of health data to support and ground…

On 24-25 November 2018 the Basel Hackathon takes place in Basel, Switzerland. The event is organized by the non-profit organization BaselHack. It consists of 22 experts from different backgrounds and organizations from the Basel region and was created due to their passion for technology. This event’s goal is to inspire talents, thinkers and creative spirits to work together in order to create and develop solutions for the region. After the 30 hour weekend the experts present running prototypes…

Representative of the openIMIS initiative will be present at the 10th World Health Summit on 14-16 October in Berlin (Germany). Conference topics revolve around pandemic preparedness, the Sustainable Development Goals and the realization of health aspects in all policies, access to essential medicines, health systems strengthening, antimicrobial resistance and the digital healthcare revolution.
GIZ will be featuring a session on Digital Health frameworks in countries, where among others a…