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 ...

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...

As funding to strengthen digital health and health information systems (HIS) has grown over the past few years, so has the development of tools to assess where a country is on the journey to optimized digital health systems and HIS interoperability. Countries benefitting from external technical and ...

The session will speak about the global developments in the space of digital health at a high level and how India is adopting digital health across the continuum of care. The session will include ; 1. Moderator : a policy maker ( myself , during my role as the advisor to the Union Health Minister, h...

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 ...

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...

Since mid-2016, the JiVitA Project in rural Bangladesh has been carefully tracking all women, pregnancies and births within a 450 sq km area as part of the mCARE-II randomized controlled trial. As part of this work, 100 Government of Bangladesh community health workers were randomized to either use ...

With the emergence of digital health technologies there are still great challenges in being able to effectively share information on new technologies, evidence, best practices and toolkits, to name a few. There are a multiplicity of ways in which global, regional and national networks of digital hea...

Our session will focus on how to bring a mHealth project to scale and create ownership within the Ministry of Health (MoH), using the Integrated e-Diagnostic Approach (IeDA) project as an example. To our knowledge IeDA is one of the largest mHealth projects in sub-Saharan Africa, in terms of coverag...

Transitioning to digital client level information systems that enable longitudinal health service tracking and decision support for health workers remains a complex and arduous process. An extensive requirements gathering process that details the workflows, data needs, and decision support algorithm...

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 gender gap in digital global health is recognized yet little is done to elevate the conversation and move the needle of change. This female-led session seeks to share formal and informal research about the current gender gap across the digital health ecosystem, and empower participants to take a...

MEASURE Evaluation has used the DHIS 2 to build and/or strengthen health information systems in many parts of the world, notably in six sub-Saharan African countries. MEASURE’s work demonstrates comfort with the DHIS 2 technology, stakeholder engagement and ownership, contributions to capacity bui...

Since 2016, the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health has been working to digitize the existing family folder information system for Health Extension Workers (HEWs) in Ethiopia. The proposed Electronic Community Health Information System (eCHIS) was envisioned as both a job aid--designed to improve q...

In the last 5 years, ministries, donors, and implementers have united behind a rallying cry: To move digital development beyond “pilotitis” into proven, sustained impact at scale. Seeds of success towards this goal have begun to sprout, as technology products have leveraged shared investment to ...

There has been remarkable progress in development and implementation of electronic medical records (EMR), laboratory information systems (LIS), and logistics management information systems (LMIS) in resource-limited settings. However, the siloed nature of many implementations means there is tremendo...

One of the greatest challenges to scaling digital health solutions in LMIC countries is in human resource capacity-building for local community and district health authorities. Human resource shortages, high rates of staff turnover and difficulties in accessing training all impede the consistent cap...

Given the marked levels of neonatal mortality that occurs in the first 48h of life, improving the coverage and utilization of antenatal and postnatal care is critical. Several important rate-limiting steps prevent adequate and timely coverage including: non-systematic listing of eligible clients, po...

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...

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...

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...

Countries are shifting from paper/legacy systems to optimized, person-centric electronic health record systems (EHRs). With this shift to digitalization at the primary care level, technical partners redundantly translate clinical practice guidelines across multiple EHRs. There are continuous updates...

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...

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...

For digital health to be successful, its supporting architecture should be easy to implement, operationalize, and maintain over time. This begs the question if the current standard for digital health architecture inherently supports or inhibits reaching the goal of stronger health systems and improv...

Digital innovation can no longer be considered separately from health service delivery. Achieving universal health care (UHC) by 2030, as put forward in Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3), will only be accomplished by leveraging digital and frontier technologies. A collective vision, commitment, ...

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...

The West Africa Health Informatics Team (WAHIT), based at the West African Health Organization (WAHO), is a team of software developers and experts in health information systems (HIS) that provides on-demand technical assistance to countries while building local capacity in the region. Originally fo...