As the amount and quality of health data generated within Sub-Saharan Africa grows, the focus is moving from production to the actualization of the value of the data. The question is thus, how do we obtain actionable information and insights from these resources? The above question should be answere...

The main objective of this poster session will be to show how the “Be Data Driven” principle from the Principles of Digital Development was a key central strategy used for the conceptualization and development of the integrated information system for the monitoring of the contraceptive insurance...

Dharma Platform is a mobile-first, impact-first, data management solution that gathers primary source data to feed robust visualizations and machine learning tools. This is empowering organizations, on a global scale, with critical insights to increase their humanitarian aid efforts. Built in respon...

Near ubiquitous access to mobile phones globally has catalyzed discourse on the potential of phone surveys for use in the monitoring of population health. In contrast to resource and time intensive face to face surveys, phone surveys offer respondents the option of being interviewed over a personal ...

The soaring levels of health inequity have prompted experts in various fields to come together and team up to think through innovative ways of providing targeted care. One such consideration is leveraging predictive analytics to determine which individuals are most at risk of negative health outcome...

Geospatial data are more and more available in low- and middle-income countries. Thanks to advanced methodologies - based on satellite imagery, remote sensing and modeling - population data are more and more available and accurate. Initiatives like Worldpop (https://www.worldpop.org/) and GRID3 (htt...

Following a routine health information system (RHIS) performance assessment in 2015, MEASURE Evaluation started working in Mali to reinforce its local health information system (SLIS) and hospital information system (SIH). The 2018 Performance of Routine Information System Management (PRISM) evaluat...

Mortality and cause of death data are an important aspect of national health information. Countries need to know how many people die each year, in order to design effective public health policies (Mahapatra, 2007). In Kenya, the Civil Registration Services (CRS) registers vital statistics. Although ...

The use of open-ended questions can be a blessing or curse for mobile health platforms and the researchers who want to improve them. Qualitative data are rich, offering unexpected insights and perspectives that standard closed questions are likely to miss. But analysing open-ended questions, comment...

Over 200 projects have been run globally in the last decade using Mobile Network Operator to answer health, agriculture, education and transportation questions to name just a few. Despite the myriad investments in this space, there has not been a consistent process that has been developed so that an...

1. Brief Summary The Government of Kenya launched the Big 4 Agenda in 2018 and identified Food Security, Affordable Housing, Manufacturing and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as the areas to drive growth in the country over the next four years. UHC is a component of the Sustainable Development Goals...

As responsibilities for health planning and service delivery increasingly devolve to lower levels, it is imperative to get timely and accurate data in the right place at the right time to empower frontline health workers to inform critical program decisions. While dashboards and visualization techno...

Over the past decade, we have made marked progress in formalizing the field of digital health. From a 2018 World Health Assembly Resolution to the 2019 launch of the Digital Health Guidelines, digital health has gained unprecedented centrality in the health systems strengthening discourse. A number ...

The rapid and vast proliferation of mobile technology has revolutionized the ability of health systems to achieve better outcomes, including improved geographic monitoring of immunization services. Expanded access to new technologies including Global Information System (GIS), and online mapping tool...

Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MoH) is required to revise its Health Management Information System (HMIS) data collection and reporting tools to cater for the ever changing and increasing national and international data demands. The revision is meant to enhance evidence-based planning, decision maki...

MEASURE Evaluation’s technical assistance to Burkina Faso’s Ministry of Health in strengthening its routine health information systems (RHIS) began in 2018. In September 2018, MEASURE conducted a Performance of Routine Information System Management (PRISM) assessment to evaluate the strengths an...

RHINoVision is both an innovative concept for visualization of routine health information and a software application that is part of the open source Decision Support System developed at JSI that builds on the methodology outlined in the MEASURE Evaluation “Building a Web-Based Decision Support Sys...

eHealth architecture frameworks are often developed and implemented in a manner that does not prioritize a core component, the Health Worker Registry or human resource information system (HRIS), which is typically non-existent, of poor quality, or underutilized, hindering advancements in digital hea...

Responsible data practice has implications in the digital health landscape and is a topic on many development practitioners' minds. Protecting the privacy and security of patients and stakeholders through proper collection, use, and handling of digital data is a huge concern- especially when there a...

In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) blood lead levels in children under 6 are a public health hazard with levels much higher than US or European children. Research about children lead levels in SSA is scarce. One 2013 article published in the journal “Tropical Medicine & International Health” noted ther...

The digital health community dedicates significant resources to implementation, monitoring, evaluation and research activities and then publishing the results. While these publications are meant to share learnings and transfer knowledge to help implementers, policymakers and donors design and carry ...

In response to the huge maternal and newborn mortality indices, the Health and Human Services Secretariat with support of WHO set out to implement a Quality of Care (QOC) initiative for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH). Two problems with significant outcomes were targeted namely; Administra...

We will present three presentations on how individual-level and stock data from electronic immunization registries (EIRs) have been used within a research context in multiple countries and the implications for use of these data by health programs. The presentations will cover the themes of “data i...

Background: Our poster presents the implementation and results of several divergent approaches to health record linkage in Botswana’s National Data Warehouse (NDW). Botswana’s NDW integrates health records originating in several hundred health care facilities captured by a variety of mechanisms,...

Ethiopia has made significant investments in digitizing the public health supply chain which has resulted in an increased availability of data. However, data availability alone is not enough to transform the supply chain performance. One also needs to institute a “data use culture” to drive impa...

MEASURE Evaluation’s technical assistance to the Cote d’Ivoire Ministry of Health in strengthening its routine health information systems (RHIS) dates back to 2004. MEASURE’s two Performance of Routine Information System Management (PRISM) assessments in 2008 and 2012 subsequently led to RHIS ...

Globally, health programs are increasingly replacing manual systems with open source Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Systems. EMRs can provide efficiencies in documentation and retrieval of clinical records for individual patient care. This in turn translates to faster and better quality of care. Ad...

Reliable access to contraceptives is a key component to empower women, reduce maternal mortality, and build stronger communities. To date, 21.4 million women of reproductive age in developing countries who want to prevent pregnancy are not using modern contraceptive methods. While many primary healt...

Despite relative success of the Malawi immunization program, Save the Children in collaboration with the Expanded Programme of Immunisation (EPI) Unit and Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) Unit of the Ministry of Health, identified low visibility of EPI logistics data and a lack of...

With the rapid emergence of Digital Immunization Registries (DIRs) across low-middle income countries for achieving better immunization outcomes, this session will focus on providing participants with our experience of developing, testing and scaling up the Zindagi Mehfooz (Safe Life; ZM) Digital Im...