Journal article
eRegistries: Electronic registries for maternal and child health
JF Frøen, SL Myhre, MJ Frost, D Chou, G Mehl, L Say, S Cheng, I Fjeldheim, IK Friberg, S French, JV Jani, J Kaye, J Lewis, A Lunde, K Mørkrid, V Nankabirwa, L Nyanchoka, H Stone, M Venkateswaran, AM Wojcieszek Show all
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | BMC | Published : 2016
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Abstract
Background: The Global Roadmap for Health Measurement and Accountability sees integrated systems for health information as key to obtaining seamless, sustainable, and secure information exchanges at all levels of health systems. The Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescent's Health aims to achieve a continuum of quality of care with effective coverage of interventions. The WHO and World Bank recommend that countries focus on intervention coverage to monitor programs and progress for universal health coverage. Electronic health registries - eRegistries - represent integrated systems that secure a triple return on investments: First, effective single data collection for health wo..
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Funding Acknowledgements
[ "The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) funded the harmonized Reproductive Health Registries project (GLO-4279 QZA 12/0355 harmonized Reproductive Health Registries) that led to the eRegistries Initiative (QZA-14/0022 Every Mother and Child Counts). This was led in partnership by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the WHO Department for Reproductive Health and Research, with Queensland University (Australia), the University of Oxford (UK), and the Health Information Systems Program (Vietnam).", "The contribution by JFF, JVJ and VN was supported in part by the Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC; project number 223269), which is funded by the Research Council of Norway through its Centers of Excellence scheme and the University of Bergen, Norway." ]