[Re: https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/mhealth-innovate-69-idea-topic-6-using-... ]
Hi Brendon
Thanks for your suggestion of using the CFIR framework. Would you see informal use of mobile phones as the intervention in the framework or were you thinking of the informal use guidance as the intervention? We haven't given a lot of thought to how guidance might be implemented and how, for instance, this might change healthcare workers' willingness to cover the costs of their mobile phone use. As use becomes more formalised, it seems likely that healthcare workers will ask why their costs are not covered by their employer. It would be good to hear others' views on this.
Best wishes
Simon
Member of the mHEALTH-INNOVATE research team
HIFA profile: Simon Lewin is a health systems researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/simon.lewin), the South African Medical Research Council (www.mrc.ac.za) and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (https://www.fhi.no/en/kn/ceir/). He has a keen interest in how research evidence can be used to inform decisions for health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and at the global level in multilateral organisations such as the WHO. As Co-Lead of Cochrane People, Health Systems and Public Health, he has played a key role in strengthening Cochrane’s work in the field of health systems and in developing Cochrane methods for qualitative evidence synthesis. Cochrane is a HIFA supporting organisation and Simon is a member of three HIFA working groups: CHWs; mHealth-Innovate (informal use of mobile phones by health workers) and Support-Systems - How can decision-making processes for health systems strengthening and universal health coverage be made more inclusive, responsive and accountable? https://www.hifa.org/support/members/simon Email: simon.lewin AT ntnu.no