Wilson, Kate
Dear colleagues - I am pleased to share the following announcement with you.
PATH Names Deputy Director Of Digital Health Solutions
Dykki Settle Will Lead Technical Strategy and Implementation Teams
PATH has named Dykki Settle as deputy director of its Digital Health Solutions group. Settle will build on PATH’s work bridging the gap between global health and how users learn and adopt information and communication technology (ICT), focusing on technical strategy development, overseeing project implementations, and solution assessment. In addition, he will be a spokesperson for the organization on digital health, working with the global software development community to identify recommended platform investments and partnerships.
“We are pleased to have attracted a senior technical leader of Dykki’s caliber to help lead our Digital Health Solutions platform,” said Steve Davis, president and CEO at PATH. “This investment reflects the strong focus that PATH is taking toward integrating appropriate ICT tools across all of our health programs as a key strategy to delivering greater health impact.”
PATH’s Digital Health Solutions group is dedicated to scaling the use of ICT in the developing world to improve health. This work spans the entire software development lifecycle from analysis of information systems to deployment and long-term use of those systems. The Digital Health Solutions group works with government ministries of health, the ICT and global health sectors, and donors to improve the design, development, acquisition, and implementation of management information systems.
Settle will assume the role on June 22. He will be based in PATH’s Seattle headquarters.
A leader in open source health information systems
Most recently, Settle served as the Director of Health Workforce Informatics at IntraHealth International. In that role, he led the design, development, and implementations of the iHRIS Suite of open-source health workforce information system software, the mHero health workforce mobile communications and coordination platform and other tools that are now being rolled out in global, regional and country programs worldwide.
Settle has provided technical leadership in bringing together consortia focusing on health workforce information systems and ICT applications in developing countries, utilizing his open-source experience and expertise to support a global agenda in health technologies and approaches. He has led and supported global health informatics work around the world in more than twenty-five countries.
“Dykki is an outstanding eHealth leader who over the past decade has demonstrated his enormous commitment to country-owned, country-led information systems. This new role, matched with his experience leading open-source and cutting edge surveillance applications, expands PATH’s technical bench and enables us to take on more hands-on implementation projects in Africa and Asia,” said Kate Wilson, director of Digital Health Solutions at PATH. “He will be leading technical teams who can directly support the design, development, and deployment of country-owned, interoperable health information systems that address the needs of our users—whether they be community health workers or national-level decision makers. Our goal is put the power of information in the hands of many leading to better health outcomes.”
Webmaster, Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Architect
Prior to joining IntraHealth in 2001, Mr. Settle led the technology vision, strategy, and operations for a variety of innovative and entrepreneurial organizations. These positions included the first webmaster of the pioneering open source archive and digital library SunSITE (now ibiblio.org), Chief Technology Officer of Ventana Communications, the first publishing company to sell books and offer free content on the Internet, and CEO of e-commerce innovator catalogue.com.
Mr. Settle has a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies in Information and Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill, and is a certified Enterprise Architect with the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).
Kate Wilson
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To learn more about our work in health information systems please see PATH's Digital Health Solutions website