Health systems managers need objective ways to evaluate digital health solutions and assess which solutions are worthy of investment, adoption, and promotion. In this hands-on session, we'll explain three different evaluation criteria, and walk participants through using each method to evaluate digi...

Watsi is a nonprofit that builds technology to finance healthcare. Watsi has developed a software platform called Meso to administer national health insurance in resource-limited countries to facilitate progress towards universal health coverage (UHC). Running health insurance systems at scale is op...

Nigeria has been implementing Performance-based financing (PBF) projects to improve the quality of healthcare for many years now. As the managers of this program we will share our perspective on the project’s evolution from its beginning. We will begin with a description of why our government deci...

We share lessons from the 6-year journey of piloting to nationally scaling an eLMIS system for Senegal called “Yeksi-Naa”. Since 2013, IntraHealth and Dimagi have partnered in Senegal to implement the Informed Push Model (IPM) with Senegal’s Ministry of Health and Social Action (MoHSA) and Nat...

Abstract The National Cancer Control Program (NCCP) maintains the Sri Lanka Cancer Registry (SLCR). This registry contains socio-demographic, histologic and some staging data on cancers. Currently, there is no systematic process to gather outcome data of any cancer in Sri Lanka. The National Cancer ...

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...

Male circumcision confers a significant level of protection against heterosexual HIV acquisition among men. Since 2009, voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has been a key HIV prevention intervention in Tanzania. With nationwide MC prevalence nearing 80% among males aged 15-29 years, it become...

Poor quality of health care results in poor health outcomes. Improving and monitoring quality of health care in LMICs presents unique constraints: (i) increasing scale and scope of the health sector, (ii) lack of enforced standards leading to a lack of continuity in scoring and benchmarks across hea...

Automation of the Zambian Supply chain system has received increased attention in the last few years like many developing countries. This has occurred in tandem with similar initiatives in the wider eHealth environment. While these yield strategic opportunities in strengthening health service delive...

Zenysis Technologies is a big data and artificial intelligence software company dedicated to accelerating global development goals and improving lives everywhere. Established in 2015, the company is led by software engineers and data scientists from Google, Amazon and NASA. The Zenysis software take...

Sexual transmission of HIV is the most common cause of HIV infection in Mozambique, therefore the ability to identify and offer HIV counseling and testing (HIVCT) to sex partners (SP) of individuals living with HIV is of utmost importance. This task has been extremely complex using paper-based tools...

In challenging and fragile contexts, scaling up digital health solutions has depended heavily on private funding and short-term investments, often failing to build adequate capacity locally to enable digital solutions to be brought to scale. Making technology solutions stick in fragile contexts and ...

As the digital partner working to create a platform for Nigeria’s Performance-based financing (PBF) system, Bluesquare has been working closely with the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA). Our implementation of digital tools has had to adapt as the PBF needs, capacity, and the...

The WHO has been advocating for task shifting and task sharing in human resource-limited health systems. However, there is limited evidence of task shifting or task sharing in the management of electronic health records (EHR). We implemented an EHR system at 10 rural health centres in Malawi, where ...

Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) is a neonatal resuscitation training and educational program which has rolled out in 80+ low/middle-income countries (LMICs). From 2012 - present, a multi-disciplinary team of investigators from Indiana and Moi Universities, in collaboration with key partners, has develo...

Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) is a constellation of clinical signs and/or symptoms which presents with acute fever, acute change in mental status and/or new onset of seizures which are caused due to inflammation of the brain. Due to its complex multiple etiologies, AES continues to be one of the...

The Ethiopian Ministry of Health (FMOH) has been using two independent, propriety HMIS systems, covering to different regions within the country. This parallel structure has posed challenge to integrate datasets from different regions, conduct national level analysis without manual data integration,...

Monitoring and improving quality of health care in LMICs presents unique constraints, including increasing scale and scope of the health sector, poor use of monitoring data and delayed course correction. Enhanced supervision is estimated to have the highest potential impact of all health system inte...

OpenLMIS is an open source electronic logistics management information system (LMIS) built to manage health commodity supply chains in low- and middle-income countries. OpenLMIS is a growing initiative to provide a full-feature electronic LMIS solution to Ministries of Health and other global partne...

This session will provide an interactive demo of a recently launched mobile app and dashboard for TB screening and case notification in Nigeria that was developed in partnership with the National TB Program (NTP). Independent clinicians who are not affiliated with the NTP in Nigeria do not have prop...

Surveillance systems are the backbone of malaria elimination programs, providing information on where and how transmission is occurring and how interventions should be targeted. However, countries face substantial challenges in rolling out integrated information systems that collect timely, high qua...

With the proliferation of information systems in the health sector, it is important to embrace the interoperability principle of “collect one, use many times” whenever possible in order to reduce the data collection burden on health workers who are capturing this data or managing the data. This ...

The impact of absenteeism on health system operations cannot be overstated. Beyond the objective waste of scarce government resources on paying health workers who do not show up at their assigned duty stations, the psychological impact of absenteeism is far-reaching and insidious. Otherwise hard-wor...

A Master Patient Index (MPI) is an electronic medical database that holds information on every patient registered at a healthcare organization. It also includes data on physicians, other medical staff, and facility employees. Master patient index is a database that is used all over the world in heal...

Lack of reliable client identification significantly impacts the quality and provision of health care services. As a result of the changing epidemiological landscape, chronic diseases are a prevailing cause of hospitalizations. Many developing countries face challenges with uniquely identifying clie...

Right to Care (RTC) continues to implement innovations that decrease the time between data collection and data utilization for program improvement through technology and processes that shift the perspective of data from retrospective program analysis to that of real-time surveillance and response. R...

iHRIS is an existing global digital health good with deployments in over 20 countries, however it was showing its age. The user interface and underlying architecture were cutting edge when it was developed in 2007, but were generating complaints in 2018. How then to overhaul an existing global good ...

NACOSA is a network of over 1,800 civil society organizations working together and in partnership with the Global Fund, PEPFAR and other public and private sector partners, to turn the tide on HIV, AIDS and TB in Southern Africa, particularly among children and youth, key populations and women and g...

‘Online SBCC Materials Approval (OSMA)’ is an online software application(http://osma.mohfw.gov.bd) designed to digitize and simplify the activities of the IEC Technical Committee constituted for approval of quality HPN SBCC materials assuring the compatibility of policy and social values, infor...

Implemented by the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Nigeria’s PBF system utilizes a suite of tools to incentivize improved healthcare provision. This system depends on high quality data collected from facilities, verification of this data across different sources, and payments assoc...