In May 2022, the World Health Organisation (WHO) formally launched the Geographic Information System (GIS) Centre for Health in a bid to manage the production and use of geospatial data and tech systems towards strengthening public health interventions. According to the WHO, despite its numerous medical applications and importance in global health, many countries currently lack the benefits of (GIS) to strengthen their health information system.
This may not be unconnected to some technical encumbrances and bottlenecks that may have hindered the optimum utilisation of the systems especially in preparing and responding to health emergencies. The challenges of accessing accurate environmental and demographic amongst other issues around both software and hardware coupled with inadequate technical capacity have become a serious bane to maximum efficacy of GIS in developing countries.
In this vein, there are huge opportunities for developing countries to explore and adopt context-specific systems to improve healthcare delivery. Thus the 14th episode of insights webinar titled; Optimising Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Improve Healthcare Delivery, will discuss how to surmount challenges to scale GIS in a bid to improve different aspects of healthcare delivery.
The webinar will also amplify interventions by ehealth Africa and other stakeholders in the deployment of geospatial data.
We look forward to your contributions in what will be another impactful episode of Insights Webinar!
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