In line with the annual Global Health Council meeting theme (where we will be live blogging and tweeting from), this month’s Global Health Magazine focuses on technology for humanity, the below is from the HRIS blog:

• Are Cell Phones Leading the mHealth Revolution? — Health workers are tapping into mobile phones in the developing world as use of the portable handhelds leapfrogs exponentially over landlines and lagging Internet access.
• AIDS Hotline for Ethiopian Health Workers — The National AIDS Resource Center in Addis Ababa has established the Fitun Warmline, a toll-free telephone service designed to provide health-care professionals across Ethiopia with quick, accurate and up-to-date answers to their questions about HIV/AIDS care and treatment.
• Credit Card Know More About You Than Your M.D.? — One of the biggest challenges facing health systems around the world might come as a surprise, because it’s not about doctors, drugs or money. From Boston to Beijing to Bamako, governments and health systems face an information challenge – specifically the lack of information.

HRIS In Focus The HRIS Strengthening Blog, May 2009

You should read the whole article.