Description of Session
As a global development community, we are making enormous strides in setting the groundwork for sustainable and scalable digital health development and increasing our knowledge of effective digital health strategies. A pillar of this effort is the investment in and adoption of global goods, including, but not limited to open source health information systems, standards, and knowledge repositories. However, there are challenges in practically scaling global goods and the long term sustainability of those systems as a part of the greater HIS ecosystem in countries and in multi-country projects. This panel will provide use cases that illustrate the strategies and best practices towards overcoming the challenges to effectively scaling global goods in countries. 1. Creating an enabling environment by building the governance structures, capacity, processes, and systems to enable scale 2. Developing versatile platforms that address the unique needs of different countries and programs. 3. Architecting, configuring, customizing, and building capacity for systems at scale, and for growth and expansion so that they can be independently scaled by countries and their partners. Each perspective will consider the people, processes, and systems necessary to support data use at scale including: - Maturity of governance systems. - Building HIS Capacity - Aligning data from multiple sources and making it easily findable and usable by those who need it when they need it - Ensuring stakeholders across the health system can access the information that they need, when they need it, in an easily digestible format - Establishing sustainable data management processes - Making tradeoffs between customization and general usability - The existing fragmentation of data sources and systems - Maintaining systems at scale
