dc.contributor.author | Bucher, Sherri L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Cardellichio, Peter | |
dc.contributor.author | Muinga, Naomi | |
dc.contributor.author | Patterson, Jackie K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Thukral, Anu | |
dc.contributor.author | Deorari, Ashok K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Santorino, Data | |
dc.contributor.author | Umoren, Rachel | |
dc.contributor.author | Purkayastha, Saptarshi | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-08T13:41:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-08T13:41:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-10 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bucher, S. L., Cardellichio, P., Muinga, N., Patterson, J. K., Thukral, A., Deorari, A. K., ... & Purkayastha, S. (2020). Digital health innovations, tools, and resources to support helping babies survive programs. Pediatrics, 146(Supplement_2), S165-S182. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.must.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/1438 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Helping Babies Survive (HBS) initiative features a suite of evidence-based curricula and abstract simulation-based training programs designed to provide health workers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with the knowledge, skills, and competencies to prevent, recognize, and manage leading causes of newborn morbidity and mortality. Global scale-up of HBS initiatives has been rapid. As HBS initiatives rolled out across LMIC settings, numerous bottlenecks, gaps, and barriers to the effective, consistent dissemination and implementation of the programs, across both the pre- and in-service continuums, emerged. Within the first decade of expansive scale-up of HBS programs, mobile phone ownership and access to cellular networks have also concomitantly surged in LMICs. In this article, we describe a number of HBS digital health innovations and resources that have been developed from 2010 to 2020 to support education and training, data collection for monitoring and evaluation, clinical decision support, and quality improvement. Helping Babies Survive partners and stakeholders can potentially integrate the described digital tools with HBS dissemination and implementation efforts in a myriad of ways to support low-dose high-frequency skills practice, in-person refresher courses, continuing medical and nursing education, on-the-job training, or peer-topeer learning, and strengthen data collection for key newborn care and quality improvement indicators and outcomes. Thoughtful integration of purpose-built digital health tools, innovations, and resources may assist HBS practitioners to more effectively disseminate and implement newborn care programs in LMICs, and facilitate progress toward the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal health goals, targets, and objectives. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Laerdal Foundation, Latter-day Saint Charities, Vitol Foundation, and Save the Children Federation. Life-Saving Instruction for Emergencies design and development funding was provided through a crowdfunding initiative by the University of Oxford and the Saving Lives at Birth seed funds (round 6). Support for the development of electronic Helping Babies Breathe and electronic Helping Babies Breathe 1 mobile Helping Babies Survive powered by the District Health Information System 2 (mHBS-DHIS2) field testing activities was provided by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the University of Washington (Dr Umoren; OPP1169873). Development and proof-of-concept funding for mHBS-DHIS2 was provided, in part, to Dr Bucher by the Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine (2012–2014); contextual analysis (2015–2016) by Johnson & Johnson corporate giving (4581903); and Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis Center for Teaching and Learning, Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Institute (summer 2017; academic year 2017–2018). Essential Care for Every Baby Digital Action Plan app development and additional mHBS-DHIS2 server hosting were supported by Indiana University School of Medicine (Bucher) and Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis School of Informatics and Computing (Dr Purkayastha). Dr Santorino Data received funding from Grand Challenges Canada for the development and testing of the Helping Babies Breathe Prompt application; support for development and b-testing of Liveborn was provided, in part, by a University of North Carolina Junior Faculty Development Award to Dr Patterson; the authors have indicated they have no other financial relationships relevant to this article to disclose. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Pediatrics | en_US |
dc.subject | Digital Health | en_US |
dc.subject | Innovations | en_US |
dc.subject | Tools | en_US |
dc.subject | Resources | en_US |
dc.subject | Support | en_US |
dc.subject | Helping Babies | en_US |
dc.subject | Survive Programs | en_US |
dc.title | Digital Health Innovations, Tools, and Resources to Support Helping Babies Survive Programs | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |