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,...

We’d like to discuss how developing countries can transition to a digital system to promote transparency and accountability, while reducing corruption within health systems. As part of this discussion, we’ll present our experience working with USAID on the HIV Reform in Action (HIVRiA) and Healt...

Fishery employs 17% of Senegal’s workforce and provides 70% of the nation’s animal-based protein. About 90% of the country’s fish are caught by “artisanal” fishers whose earnings depend on weather patterns, market prices, access to capital and consumer demand. The Wireless Solutions for Fi...

MiracleFeet will outline key challenges and lessons learned from managing a global deployment of a mobile patient management application used in clubfoot treatment. The application, called CAST, is currently used by 245 users across 25 countries. The app has been well-received by end users and has i...

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...

CONTEXT - transmission of HIV can occurred between mother and baby in broadly three opportunity phases: in utero, intra-partum or postnatal (likely breastfeeding) PROBLEM - despite the new guideline and broad adoption of both treatment and EID testing, south Africa has not been able to routinely est...

Healthy Kids / Brighter Futures (HK/BF) is an organization based in Zambia training teachers to serve as frontline health workers in Zambian schools for their child and adolescent student populations. Having deep relationships with both the Zambian Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, HK/BF...

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...

This session describes an agriculture extension program that transformed business management processes of 434 smallholder cooperatives growing rice, maize and millet crops in Senegal through the use of smartphone applications. For the Naatal Mbay program, RTI and Dimagi built CommAgri, an applicatio...

This session will introduce the attendees to the innovative low-resource design of the cloud-based, mobile, and universally accessible Electronic Health Record for refugees: Sijilli. The health information of Sijilli is originally collected on a data entry-friendly software. The health data includes...

Jacaranda Health’s two-way text messaging platform (PROMPTS) educates and empowers mothers in Kenya to seek care at the right time. It is rapidly scaling, with 40,000 users projected by the end of 2019. A feature of the platform that has high demand is the ability for mothers to have their questio...

Large -scale implementation of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) in healthcare continue posing challenges in controlling costs, standards, and coordination of diverse stakeholders. Health Enterprise Architecture (HEA) refers to the structured alignment of health sector needs to ICT impl...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) deployed Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Systems to support administrative, financial and clinical management of its hospitals. The new EMR software did not capture the monitoring parameters and indicators for HIV care. Several implementing partners operated acro...

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...

This session will explore how to effectively incorporate machine learning solutions to guide allocation of funding, staff, and supplies to optimize health outcomes in global health programs. It will share best practices and use cases for how to: - frame machine learning within the context of a holis...

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...

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...

Introduction: Digitally-empowered community health workers (CHWs) can effectively address preventable disease. To achieve impact, digital CHW programme design needs to consider selection criteria of CHWs including knowledge, skills and attributes like time-management, respect and diligence. In eight...

This presentation will share Hesperian Health Guides’ experience testing and releasing a scalable mobile app on Safe Abortion. The format and content of this app was shaped through multiple iterations of field testing with diverse representatives of potential users across the globe. Hesperian is a...

This reference tool and accompanying narrative user's guide will help tool developers, governments, and other funders alike assess the value of software global goods and further determine what investments are necessary to ensure these tools have sufficient investments/revenue to cover core operating...

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...

Since 2016, the Digital Health & Interoperability Working Group (Working Group) has enabled a collaborative, community-based approach to implementing digital systems that support global health. The Working Group brings together nearly 250 technical partners from over a dozen countries to standardize...

The time is ripe for employing big data to detect epidemics and improve health care. Doing so can help battle child mortality in Burkina Faso where 1 in 10 children do not survive to the age of 5 today. Terre des hommes built an e-diagnostic tool for childcare, IeDA, which starting in 2014 now cover...

Nigeria, the most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa with a population of 190 million is currently experiencing an epidemiological health transition with growing rates of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs). NCDs, especially diabetes mellitus, hypertension and stroke, have emerged as a major public...

With funding from the Human Development Innovation Fund (HDIF) , Dimagi implemented mLabour in eight private health facilities in Tanzania from July 2016 - January 2019. mLabour is a digital decision-support tool that helps skilled birth attendants to deliver timely and efficient evidence-based intr...

The introduction of digital health interventions requires re-examining existing workflows and operations in health facilities in order to ensure that interventions are used efficiently. Finding the optimal integration of an intervention into a facility workflow requires that an intervention is desig...

Regional and peer-learning networks provide a platform to bring together leaders and practitioners in the digital health space. Focused on knowledge sharing and capacity building, these networks are often a source of inspiration and support for country-level stakeholders in the sector. Networks have...

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...

The Open Health Information Mediator (OpenHIM) is an open-source software application designed to ease interoperability between disparate information systems by providing a single point of entry into the services of a health information exchange (HIE). It provides secure communications and data gove...

For more than a century Afghanistan has been unstable, facing decades of war, social problems, and intense poverty. As a result, large part of the population suffers from a variety of mental health problems. The Government recognises the situation and has prioritised mental health, but progress is s...