Since 2013, Central American Health Informatics Network (RECAINSA), a network integrated by volunteers and health sector professionals, has been seeking to open spaces of exchange for experiences and good practices in Digital Health in Central America, working with key actors of public and private s...

The session will present the Digital Health Leadership Program of the African Alliance of digital health networks. The Digital Health Leadership Program is designed to help develop the technical capacity in African digital health leaders, particularly in government agencies, to develop, manage, and ...

Many countries are eager to adopt information and communications technology for healthcare but are lost on how to go about doing so. This lab session will share theory and practice of IT governance as applied to national digital health program management. It will share the AeHIN National Capacity-bu...

Two years ago the opening keynote of the Forum asked panelists and participants to place their bets on the future of digital health. One of the most common (and, we're happy to report, winning!) bets was on increased donor coordination. USAID created Digital Square to enable that co-investment, and ...

With the 2019 launch of the WHO Digital Health Guidelines the role of digital technologies in support of universal health coverage is becoming more mainstream. In the last five years, South Africa’s National Department of Health (NDOH) has overseen a range of digital services to support maternal, ...

The global digital health community extolls the importance of coordination and local ownership of digital health programs, especially during nation-wide digital transformation. However, many countries face entrenched and complex challenges in their health systems, especially when trying to establish...

In 2017, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Cameroon commissioned a landscape analysis of health information systems (HIS) using a maturity model framework to collect and interpret stakeholder input. This approach acknowledges that HIS ecosystems are made up of technical solu...

Universal health coverage is one of the targets under the Sustainable Development Goal 3 with the aim of guaranteeing the right to health and reducing extreme poverty. Achieving UHC means increasing the access to quality health services while providing financial risk protection. In 2018 the Governme...

After adopting federalism in 2015, Nepal established 753 autonomous local government units (urban and rural municipalities) led by locally elected leaders. For these municipalities, community health is often a conflicting priority with many political leaders showing a preference for investing in inf...

Supply chain is procurement. Plain and simple. Population health is concerned with the health of entire communities. Population health is focused on the social determinants of health. Population health is compassionate, is analytical, is forward facing. Supply chains and population health don’t re...

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, includin...

WHO and PATH along with colleagues from University of Cape Town and the Botnar Foundation will share the results of a recent effort to define data governance priorities and practices for the global health community, to inform its quest to achieve universal health coverage for all people. We will use...

In this session, we will present and discuss how to design and deploy digital solutions that are integrated in complex ecosystems. We will showcase two country-led reforms that are incorporating digital processes in their ci¬vil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems. By using systems thi...

Across the digital health industry, there have been significant efforts to both set national digital health strategies and align ecosystems to achieve them. As more countries develop national digital health strategies, project funding mechanisms are aligning these strategies to their own work plans....

The ultimate goal of digital health information systems is provision of information to multiple users for decision making. Information is of little value if it is not available in formats that meet the needs of multiple users − policy-makers, planners, managers, health care providers, communities,...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is actively encouraging countries to implement National Health Workforce Accounts (NHWA), a system to "progressively improve the availability, quality, and use of data on health workforce through monitoring of a set of indicators” that will advance health care t...