Description of Session
As more organisations begin scaling digital health interventions, it is increasingly important for us as a community to share not just successes, but also lessons learned and ongoing challenges. Over the last 18 months, Marie Stopes International has been developing, maintaining, and embedding a mobile data collection app to frontline family planning providers in 11 countries across Asia and Africa that helps providers deliver family planning and other SRH services. This session will present MSI’s development and implementation journey, and will draw on that experience to provide health organisations with potential tools, processes, and frameworks to use when scaling a digital health intervention in multiple countries. Because MSI has deployed a distinctive linked-application set-up using Dimagi’s CommCare mobile data collection platform, we will focus particularly on the advantages and lessons learned of scaling a single global application (with localisations) across multiple country contexts. The presentation will span three categories: application management, application deployment and scale-up, and application embedding, and will conclude with a discussion of our ongoing challenges, which we hope will spark further conversation on the topic.
