Ishrat Husain mHealth Summit December 4-5, 2012

2 Contents 1)What is USAID? 2)Context of Mobile Technology Meeting? 3)How are countries using Mobile Technology? 4)What are the notable innovations? 5)How do countries want to go forward? 6)What are the challenges? 7)Next steps

3 USAID’s mission is to advance broad based economic growth, democracy, and human progress in developing countries. Its ultimate goal: creating the conditions where U.S. assistance is no longer needed USAID’s Role

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5 Purpose To share promising practices with respect to: Adopting, using and scaling up mobile technologies to improve health outcomes. Adopting broad multi- sectoral programming to facilitate scale-up and impact.

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Innovation Highlights

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10 Where do countries want to go from here?

11 Challenges Most countries are at early stage of adoption Scale up should focus on accelerating universal coverage through use of technology to: –Reduce health cost –Provide effective community outreach with information and services –Adopt financing mechanism such as insurance to attain sustainability

12 Addressing the Challenges Continuous sharing of ideas of information through exchange visits among participants Larger sharing of information and ideas through website between all countries on: –Health care cost reduction –Expansion of insurance programs particularly at the community level Providing incentives and facilitate engagement of the private sector

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