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eHealth for the Americas...Status and Prospects
 
hosted by World Health Organization


The meeting aims  to review the status of eHealth in Latin American Member States (MS), trough the e-readiness presented by MS. It would explore a framework for the development of national eHealth plans, reflecting a need for a regional eHealth plan, and it will help building partnerships for eHealth in Latin America .


Monday, 15 November 2004, 9.00 - 15.00  

Tuesday, 16 November 2004, 9.00 - 15.00

 

If you intend to attend the workshop please notify Irma Velazquez at velazquezi@who.int  

 



Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Research and product development partnerships for new "tools
" to combat  diseases associated with poverty
hosted by the Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health

 

The purpose of the workshop is to identify where new "tools" (such as drugs, vaccines or diagnostics) are needed to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals, as well as to illustrate the role played by not-for-profit partnerships in their development.


Tuesday, 16 November 2004, 9.00 - 15.00  

 

If you intend to attend the workshop please notify the organizers at  info@ippph.org.




Health Metrics Network: developing routine information systems as a platform for health research
hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

 

In this information and discussion session, a status report will be given on the Health Metrics Network (HMN), and we invite those who have used or are using routine information system data (vital events records, DSS, NHA, census, etc) to briefly and informally describe their research. Discussion will focus on around the current advantages and constraints of using this type of data and how that landscape could be improved in the future. The session will develop ideas on information system design that would meet the needs of health researchers.


Tuesday, 16 November 2004, 13.00 - 15.00


If you intend to attend the meeting please notify Beth Peterman at elizabethp@gatesfoundation.org

 



Health Technology Assessment
hosted by World Health Organization
 

The meeting aims to promote health technology assessment in Latin America , exchanging experiences about safer and more effective technology, optimizations of resources (cost-effectiveness), achieving better impacts, developing health care research according to national needs.

 

Saturday, 20 November, 9.00 - 15.00

Sunday, 21 November, 9.00 - 15.00


If you intend to attend the workshop please notify Irma Velazquez at velazquezi@who.int



Updated 25 October 2004

 
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