Why is it taking so long to scale up digital health? Three years ago, Digital Square was launched as a partnership of 40 organizations working together to solve three well-known barriers to scale in digital health: (1) fragmented, uncoordinated investments, (2) lack of investment into interoperabili...

In the last 5 years, ministries, donors, and implementers have united behind a rallying cry: To move digital development beyond “pilotitis” into proven, sustained impact at scale. Seeds of success towards this goal have begun to sprout, as technology products have leveraged shared investment to ...

More and more countries in the world seek to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and Universal Social Protection (USP) for their populations. Interactions between stakeholders in health and social protection systems are very complex and generate a lot of data. That is why Information and Communi...

Individuals in sub-Saharan Africa often struggle to afford healthcare, let alone quality services, due to barriers including lack of investments in health facilities, inadequately trained staff as well as geographic disparities and transportation challenges; women face the disproportionate additiona...

Allied World Healthcare (AWH) radically transforms service delivery models for last-mile primary care services in the Philippines and Cambodia. We train members of the community to use offline-first apps to become healthcare navigators (collecting data, running events, providing support and connecti...

Individuals in sub-Saharan Africa often struggle to afford healthcare, let alone quality services, due to barriers including lack of investments in health facilities, inadequately trained staff as well as geographic disparities and transportation challenges; women face the disproportionate additiona...

The Female Community Health Volunteers program in Nepal was introduced in the late 1980s. Over time, their roles have evolved to agents bridging the gap between health facilities and the community. Since 2012, Medic Mobile, a global non-profit technology organization, has been empowering these front...

Individuals in sub-Saharan Africa often struggle to afford healthcare, let alone quality services, due to barriers including lack of investments in health facilities, inadequately trained staff as well as geographic disparities and transportation challenges; women face the disproportionate additiona...

Working largely on site, teams from the University of Michigan independently collaborated with clinicians and administrators at two large, public teaching hospitals in Kumasi and Accra, Ghana in 2018 and 2019 to propose mobile payments options for emergency department (ED) patients and their familie...

openIMIS is an open-source software tool for the digitalisation and efficient management of health financing workflows. Currently being used to manage a variety of health protection schemes in Nepal, Tanzania, Cameroon, Chad, and DRC, openIMIS offers seamless connections between beneficiaries, healt...

Over the past few years, Dimagi has worked with the government of India to deploy a mobile application built on the CommCare platform to over 300,000 nutrition workers in rural and urban communities across the country. The nutrition workers active on the application span eight states in India and su...

We are all rightly excited about the development of Global Digital Health Goods that can support developing countries improve their health systems. We can also be excited about new efforts like the Principles of Donor Alignment for Digital Health to support the development of these Global Goods. How...