This is an outline for a workshop session titled Trends in Health and ICT - Incredible Opportunities for Technologists and Librarians at SPHMMC, which was given on January 28, 2015. This is from a workshop on January 26 - February 2, 2015 with representatives from the Information and Communication Technologies Department and Library Department at St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The workshop was facilitated by Kathleen Ludewig Omollo and Bob Riddle. The workshop documents are shared at http://slideshare.net/tag/sphmmc-ict-2015.

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Workshop: Strengthening Capacity for Information Resources and ICT to Support Growing Academic
Programs at SPHMMC, Facilitators: Bob Riddle, Kathleen Ludewig Omollo, University of Michigan
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Session 5: Trends in Health and ICT - Incredible Opportunities for Technologists and Librarians at
SPHMMC, January 28, 2015
Learning
Objectives
1) Review the major changes in national health programs in Ethiopia in the past 15
years
2) Review the major changes in health programs at SPHMMC in the past 8 years
3) Discuss the dimensions of clinical care, education, and research
4) Review the intersections of ICT with health
5) Identify sources to stay up to date on developments in ICT and/or health
Discussion
Questions
1) What changed when SPHMMC grew from a hospital into a medical college in 2007?
2) How did these changes affect technology and the library at SPHMMC?
3) What do you think are some of the challenges at the 13 new medical schools?
4) How do these recent national medical education and health care policy changes
affect technology and electronic resources?
5) How does the U.S. model for medical education differ from Ethiopia?
6) How does the U.S. model for medical research differ from Ethiopia?
7) How does the U.S. model for medical care differ from Ethiopia?
8) About what do medical schools, hospitals, and health professionals care?
9) How can you use this to better communicate with them as customers and partners?
10) How can you use this information to inform your role or job description at SPHMMC?
11) How can we make SPHMMC a model for librarians and technology staff at other
medical schools in Ethiopia? How can we make it a destination where the NMEI
schools want to send their staff to learn about the best, most effective and efficient
way to design technology for medical education, research, and care?
Terms and
Concepts
Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), Residency, Sub-specialty, New Medical Education
Initiative (NMEI), Health Extension Program (HEP), Community Health Workers (CHW),
Information Resources, Informationist, Technologist, Health Information Technician (HIT)
References 1) The United States Global Health Initiative. (2011) Ethiopia Global Health Initiative
Strategy. http://www.ghi.gov/country/ethiopia/documents/159724.htm
2) Embassy of the United States in Addis Ababa. (2012) First Group of Health
Information Technicians Graduate: U.S. Government Funds Three- Year Health
Information Management Training Program. Press Release.
http://ethiopia.usembassy.gov/pr_19.html
3) Nejmudin Kedir Bilal, Christopher H. Herbst, Feng Zhao, Agnes Soucat, and
Christophe Lemiere. (2011) Health Extension Workers in Ethiopia: Improved Access
and Coverage for the Rural Poor. Yes Africa Can: Success Stories from a Dynamic
Continent. World Bank.
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/AFRICAEXT/Resources/258643-
1271798012256/YAC_Consolidated_Web.pdf
4) World Health Organization. (2010). “Scaling Up Education and Training of Human
Resources for Health in Ethiopia. Moving towards achieving the MDGs: Country Case
Study by the Global Health Workforce Alliance.”
http://www.who.int/entity/workforcealliance/knowledge/resources/ethiopia_casestudy_
2010/en/index.html.
5) Feysia, Berhanu; Herbst, Christopher H.; Lemma, Wuleta; Soucat, Agnes. (2012).
The Health Workforce in Ethiopia: Addressing the Remaining Challenges. World
Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2226.
6) Jack, William; De Laat, Joose; Hanson, Kara; Soucat, Agnes. (2010). Incentives and
Dynamics in the Ethiopian Health Worker Labor Market. World Bank.
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/5951.
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Discovering the Real World : Health Workers' Career Choices and Early Work
Experience in Ethiopia. World Bank.
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/5936.
8) World Bank. (2012) Ethiopia: Data. http://data.worldbank.org/country/ethiopia
9) Understanding and Navigating Constant Change in the Academic Medicine
Landscape, Michael Warden, Johmarx Patton, Kathleen Ludewig Omollo
10) Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach, 1e, Romona Nelson PhD RN-BC
ANEF FAAN
11) Building Academic Partnerships to Reduce Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: A Call to
Action and Way Forward, Frank W. J. Anderson
12) Careers in Health Information Technology, Brian T. Malec PhD