Back in January, I was invited to participate as a Technical Leader for this year’s Global Health Council Conference: New Technologies + Proven Strategies = Healthy Communities Many conversations, meetings, planning, and emails later, this week we stand in the midst of the best GHC Conference I have yet attended.
Already this week I have heard great [...]
The Spring 2009 issue of Global Health Magazine features the article “Is Open Source Good for Global Health?” by Dykki Settle, director of health informatics for the Capacity Project:
Everywhere you turn these days, it seems that global health is going digital. New terms like eHealth, mHealth, and telehealth have sprung into common usage in meetings, [...]
The appropriateness (or not) of open source in international development and global health is one of my favourite conversations. Despite our large investment in open source and active promotion of it, I still believe that open source can’t yet touch proprietary models for their innovative potential. One of the most innovative technologies I [...]
Dykki Settle is the team leader of the HRIS Strengthening team for the Capacity Project. Over the last five years, this team has developed iHRIS, a suite of open-source human resources for health software, strengthened health worker information systems, and started building a comprehensive picture of the health workforce in nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2008, Dykki became Director of eHealth for the Capacity Project, where he continues to support IntraHealth's global eHealth activities.