Description of Session
This session will provide insights to participants on the motivation for Sierra Leone to conduct a nationwide mapping of digital health enabling environment. UNICEF in 2017 working with stakeholders in health and ICT sectors supported the establishment of an eHealth Coordination Hub. The Hub through UNICEF support then developed the national digital health strategy. To move from development to implementation, the eHealth Coordination Hub commissioned a mapping of digital health enabling environment in the country across all districts and representative health facilities in all the districts. This session will briefly present the process for gathering this information, and will move on to present key finding from this report which will be invaluable as it maps the infrastructure, solutions, funding, governance readiness, capacity, data and information sharing. This session will show participants what tool was adapted and how mobile data collection tool was critical for quality and analysis. The use of the taxonomy of digital health solution for solutions questionnaire development will be discussed. Challenges encountered during the process and how others can easily conduct similar mapping exercise will also be presented. • Participants will learn about suite of freely available tools used for the mapping exercise. • Participants will learn the key findings from the mapping exercise and opportunities in Sierra Leone
