Plenary 2: Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:15-9:35 am
The eHealth Blueprint: Building the Foundation for Integrated Health Systems
All builders know they are lost without an architect, and all architects realize they are only visionaries without a builder. Building stronger health systems – to increase access, affordability and quality in the most poorly resourced settings – requires both the architect and the builders to come up with a blueprint for success. In eHealth, these roles may be filled by the community health worker and the technology developer….
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Shainoor Khoja, Director of Corporate Affairs at Roshan, has established an award-winning Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Department and a comprehensive medical, dental and physiotherapy clinic with laboratory facilities, vaccination and health promotion units in Kabul, Afghanistan. Roshan’s CSR Department encompasses activities in commerce, health, social welfare and education. The focus is on developing innovative solutions using technology to address the needs of a developing country like Afghanistan. Solutions utilize the power of public-private sector partnerships in an effort to bring together unique expertise to create maximum impact. Examples include an initiative to develop a telemedicine solution to address shortcomings in Afghanistan’s health-care system, working to address transfer of money using mobile money, and using microfinance to create social enterprise for women. Shainoor studied in England, Canada and the United States and holds a Bachelors of Physiotherapy, a Masters in Health Management and Postgraduate Certificates from Cambridge University England and Harvard in Corporate Social Responsibility.
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