Blue Frontier’s Collaboration With AMRelay Insights

Responding to the world’s biggest public health challenges, Blue Frontier and the Software for Health Foundation’s Mauro Tobin presented at a virtual conference for AMRelay Insights. Blue Frontier continues to play a key role in the digital roadmap to help busy health professionals gather and communicate data in the field and across geographical time zones, in a secure, timely and robust fashion. The collection of data also enables governments and health organisations to aggregate, communicate, quantify and qualify that data to build up insights and strategies to help combat AMR.

Curbing the Rise of Anti-microbial Resistance

The overall mission of AMRelay is to curb the global rise of antimicrobial resistance by boosting collaboration and joint innovation among its diverse collection of 96 global stakeholders. In a double first, Mo’s presentation was recorded in Southampton, before he flew out to Nepal to assist their Health Ministry with their own AMR strategy and it was then aired while he was still in Nepal. The virtual conference took place over 24 hours and each contributor laid out their approach to AMR with contributions in 15 minute slots from countries around the globe.

What Is the Objective? - Get Data, Use Data, Share Data

Blue Frontier is uniquely positioned to put actionable data in the hands of the right people at the right time to support decision making including antibiotic usage and stewardship. The goal is to increase the richness, timeliness and scope of collected data whilst simultaneously decreasing the data collection burden. The sharing of data is also a key objective of universal health coverage.

Mauro Tobin

"In short, we (along with our fellow innovators) are laying down the digital railway tracks for the future, tracks that will allow AMR relevant data to help ensure the hardest to reach populations and those most affected by AMR are not left behind in the fight against rising anti-microbial resistance."

Going Global

Blue Frontier continues to help provide a framework for innovation with support from E-Shift Partner Network and FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics) with life changing work in LMIC’s (low and middle-income countries) like Vietnam, Zambia, Rwanda, Nepal and Kiribati, to aid these countries in benefitting from wider digital initiatives and advancements.

Having a holistic approach to managing AMR is part of the ‘One Health’ strategy to connect the health of humans, animals, and our environment. AMR is the term used for the ability of bacteria, fungi or viruses to mutate and evade treatment and is a very real but hidden danger which not only affects all nation’s health but our ability to perform operations or plan interventions in medical procedures like chemotherapy.

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