The 2019 edition of the Descriptors in Health Sciences vocabulary - DeCS 2019 - was launched in June with some technological and terminological developments. Developed from the MeSH - Medical Subjects Headings - vocabulary of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the DeCS serves as a unique language for indexing articles from scientific journals…
August 6, 2019 - On August 7, 2019, as part of World Breastfeeding Week, the Ministry of Health recognized Cleopatra White Polyclinic as a Baby Friendly Health Facility. This is the second urban health polyclinic being certified in Belize City. At the level of districts, all other public hospitals are already certified. This now commits…
Representatives of Information and Knowledge Management of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Offices (Africa, Americas, Southeast Asia, Europe, Eastern Mediterranean and West Pacific), focal points of the Country Offices (Burkina Faso, Liberia, Mozambique, Honduras, Guyana, Somalia and Papua New Guinea), as well as the International…
Brazilian Ministry of Health team led by Rodrigo dos Santos Santana, Program Director of the Executive Secretariat, Soraya Zacarias Drumond de Andrade, General Coordinator of Documents and Information (CGDI), Shirlei Corrêa Rodrigues, Coordinator of Dissemination of Scientific and Technical Information in Health and Sandra Cristina Teixeira, head…
Inter-sectoral collaboration, commitment, and action are crucial to strengthening regional diagnostic capacity to tackle Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) detection and surveillance in the Caribbean. This is the objective of a two-year Cooperation among Countries for Health Development (CCHD) project between the Government of Argentina,…
This morning Head of the EU Delegation to Jamaica, Belize, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bahamas and the Cayman Islands, Ambassador Her Excellency Malgorzata Wasilewska, visited the PAHO/WHO Country Office to meet with PAHO/WHO Representative, Dr Noreen Jack, and the PAHO team. Accompanied by Mr Nicolaus Hansmann, Team Leader, EU Technical Office in…
A project being developed by the Ministry of Health, Environment and Nature (HEN) of Curaçao is creating an electronic system that physicians and health care institutions can use for timely, consistent and correct reporting of causes of death and communicable diseases. The project, one of the winners of the winners of the call for proposals for…
One of the main challenges for the health sector in Nicaragua is the integration of information from diagnostic laboratories with surveillance systems. To help improve this process, from October 2017 the validation and subsequent implementation of the Laboratory Information Management System (SMIL), an automated system developed by the Ministry of…
The medical records system at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital is antiquated and cumbersome. The entire process remains paper-based and with tens of thousands of medical records kept on-site. Indeed, all records since 1984 remain stored at the facility. The increase in temporary staffing necessary to handle the influz of paper forms has…