Blog by Julie Potyraj, Community Manager, Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University e: jpotyraj@publichealthonline.gwu.edu As we move into an era where our phones do everything from lowering the temperature in our homes to arranging a ride, it comes as no surprise that these devices also offer a new way to meet and engage […]
Category: role of IT systems
Myth or reality? Are social media triggering an explosion in sexually transmitted infections?
On the whole, where STIs are concerned, social media have tended to be considered as a potential force for the good in public health, offering a new resource for the management of HIV patients, or opportunities for disseminating health messages via peer education (Swanton & Mullan (STIs); Peer group education (STIs/blog)). Recently, however, there have […]
Should ART provision be decentralized to health centres in low and middle income countries?
With the realization of the value of ART as a means of preventing HIV transmission, the question of how best to retain HIV-diagnosed in care becomes all the more pressing. Recent STI blogs have covered such topics as the potential role of computer-generated reminders in retaining patients (sti blogs03/05/13), as well as the re-engagement of […]
Computerized “clinical decision support systems” (CDSS): their potential for improving HIV follow-up in low-resource settings
Kit Fairley (http://sti.bmj.com/content/87/Suppl_2/ii25.full) in this journal offers an overview of the many ways in which information technology can be used in the area of STIs. This is most obviously through the role of electronic medical records (EMR); but also through the possibility these offer for clinical decision support systems that can be used to generate […]