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1. Introduction
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2. Translating data into action: essential components of a TB recording and reporting system
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3. Designing an optimal information system
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4. Recommended process of development
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5. Resource requirements
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6. Measuring the impact of the information system
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References
Further reading: Publications related to information systems
- WHO’s m-Health tool published in 2011: New horizons for health through mobile technologies
- WHO’s 2012 guide on ERR: Electronic recording and reporting for tuberculosis care and control
- PATH and WHO developed a toolkit in 2013 to help public health managers plan the implementation of information and communications technology (ICT) in health information systems; it draws on lessons learned during project Optimize, a 5-year partnership between WHO and PATH to help optimize the vaccine supply chain: Planning an information systems project: a toolkit for public health managers
- A 2015 article in the Lancet that describes how locally tailored responses that are informed by appropriate data can be crafted and used: Data for action: collection and use of local data to end tuberculosis
- UN report on m-Health: mHealth for development
- WHO’s 2016 summary of plans to profile and support the development of priority digital health products to support the scale-up of WHO’s End TB Strategy: Digital health for the End TB Strategy: developing priority products and making them work, and Target Product Profiles for digital health products for the End TB Strategy
- A 2017 paper from India that looks at the feasibility and yield of presumptive TB case referrals with rural health care providers using mHealth technology: Using mHealth to enhance TB referrals in a tribal district of India
- Information on India’s mHealth tool for TB: https://nikshay.gov.in/AboutNikshay.htm
- A 2016 article that describes ongoing mHealth approaches to monitor and enhance TB treatment adherence: mHealth for tuberculosis treatment adherence: a framework to guide ethical planning, implementation, and evaluation
- Project description of PATH’s digital system supports adherence to TB treatment in Viet Nam: Using mHealth to combat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis across Vietnam
- A 2015 report from WHO: Digital health for the End TB Strategy
- GLI’s 2016 guide that provides valuable information on logistics, results reporting, data management, monitoring and evaluation, and standard operating procedures around specimen referrals: Quick guide to TB diagnostics connectivity solutions
- WHO’s 2018 publication on adherence-related technologies: Handbook for the use of digital technologies to support tuberculosis medication adherence