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...

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...

Blockchain Technology enables distributed public ledgers that hold immutable data in a secure and encrypted way and ensure that transactions can never be altered. While Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are the most popular examples of blockchain usage, this “distributed ledger technology” (DLT...

CELEBRATING INNOVATION AND SUPPORTING PROVEN PRACTICES AT SCALE Title: From point to point systems integration to extensible Health Information Exchange Background The health sector in Tanzania, as in many other developing countries is characterized by multiplicity of fragmented health information s...

In 2018, Medic Mobile launched the Community Health Toolkit as a global good with the goal of scaling software to advance Universal Health Coverage and Care. The Toolkit is intended to help community health care systems rapidly adopt ready-to-scale technologies and strategies, and provide a platform...

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...

During this session, we will provide an overview of the development trajectory of the OpenCRVS project, including the following: 1. Historical development of OpenCRVS from the initial development of a CRVS Digitisation Guidebook, development of an open source software solution using a human-centred ...

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...

The Dot fertility app uses machine learning to determine users’ daily risks for pregnancy based solely on their period start dates. While there are thousands of “fertility trackers” on the market, Dot is one of very few apps designed to be used for pregnancy prevention. It is also the only fer...

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...

USAID could join a panel with implementers to present the AI for Global Health: Defining a Collective Path Forward report. The report share four key pieces of analysis to help drive thinking across the global health field about deploying and scaling artificial intelligence in global health: 1). An o...

The session will share how Tanzania is applying Enterprise Architecture approach to address the health system challenges and ensuring the digital technologies are aligned with Tanzanian health sector goals, vision, mission, and objectives. The Government of Tanzania through the MOHCDGEC continues to...

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...

The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), a global consortium with public-private funding, has delivered vital health information to pregnant women, new mothers and their families through SMS text messages and interactive voice calls (IVR) using their mobile phones their mobile phones with mes...

Data driven decisions to improve the quality of Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) care at public health facilities in India has been challenging due to inadequate recording, multiple paper based registers, errors in data recording and reporting, lack of key indicators in service statistics, manual c...

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 ...

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...

LMICs are rapidly moving towards and wanting a holistic view of their population’s health and with eHealth strategies being revised to ensure that interoperability and data exchange are strongly included. To date, there has been a trend of “isolated” digital health intervention focus such as �...

The retention of HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is critical in achieving the global UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets. Given the critical role of retention in care and adherence to antiretroviral therapy, the USAID Boresha Afya Southern Zone program introduced a mobile-based reminder system that...

Since 2011, the Asia eHealth Information Network has created opportunities for capacity-building in health information systems development. It has now summarized four areas of focus in capacity-building: governance, architecture, program management, standards and interoperability (or GAPS). By offer...

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...

With the current global technological advancements, electronic HIS are essential components of health data processing, sharing and use. In recent years, Ethiopia has seen proliferation of eHealth applications developed and introduced by different stakeholders to support the information needs for hea...

Today, the e-Health landscape in most LMICs and particularly Uganda is characterized by fragmented and piecemeal applications deployed by multiple organizations. Worse still, these eHealth systems are usually custom-built using different architectures and technologies, with interoperability and secu...

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...

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...

This session presents experiences from the development and implementation of free, on-demand, interactive voice response (IVR) audio job aids (AJAs) on family planning counseling and service delivery that were created to complement in-person training received by providers in Nigeria. Global evidence...

In 2016, Babylon healthcare, a UK digital health company, entered Rwanda on invitation from the Government of Rwanda to adapt and launch its' innovative digital health service in Rwanda. Babyl, from its call centre in Kigali, provides a nationwide digital health service on both feature and smart pho...

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...

USAID Boresha Afya is a five-year (2016 – 2021) USAID funded program implemented in three geographical zones by Jphiego (Lake and Western), Deloitte Consulting Ltd. (Southern), and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) (North and Central). The overall aim is to improve the quality...

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...