AKDN eHRC focuses on increasing eHealth awareness among health care professionals and building their capacity, enabling them to effectively implement eHealth solutions and activities. The Centre considers it important to increase eHealth adoption and facilitate its integration in the health care system. AKDN eHRC has therefore designed a year-long online certificate course to help health professionals understand eHealth concepts, appreciate the value of eHealth solutions, address the challenges around eHealth service delivery and implement effective eHealth programmes in their respective settings.
To enhance the eHealth capacities of health personnel, AKDN eHRC has utilised its expertise, resources and experience, in partnership with faculty from international institutions that include George Washington University, USA; Dalhousie University, Canada; McMaster University, Canada; and the Aga Khan University, to develop and deliver the course using asynchronous online methodologies.
Specific target audience for the course include doctors, nurses, technicians, pharmacist, allied health professionals, public health professionals, medical and biomedical engineers, researchers, academicians, administrators and managers working in the health care sector of low- and-middle income countries. The course will be open to a global audience from April 2016. However, for the first year, AKDN eHRC is offering the course to AKDN health care personnel. The course was launched in April 2015 to over 20 participants across Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan.
The course consists of 11 modules and each module will be delivered over a period of three weeks. Visit the course website to learn more about the different modules.