| Description |
The
project proposes to bring together various collaborators and their
existing resource materials, currently in diverse formats, in order to
develop a series of at least 5 generic practical Health Care Technology
Management Procedure Guides. These guides will be designed as tools for
various levels of the health service in developing countries (equipment
users, facility managers, managers in health service provider
organizations and external funding agencies) in the daily procedures to
follow when managing equipment, whether in the government, NGO, or private
sectors. These
guides will be published and disseminated to the intended beneficiaries,
available in paper and downloadable forms. It is intended that they will
fall under the umbrella of the WHO’s global collaboration to produce
their ‘Healthcare Facilities and Technology Management Tool Kit’
series of publications, and to this end the project will have an Advisory
Group of personnel from international organisations who will define
strategies for and review the documents. A number of targeted
beneficiaries will also be involved in the project.
Ziken
has already produced a manual for policy makers on the management of
healthcare technologies. Its collaborators on this project, FAKT
and ECHO, all
have experience in developing and disseminating resource materials in this
field. The strategic collaboration of WHO and the inclusion of the guides
in WHO publications increase the scope for dissemination.
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