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...

Can we improve the quality of care by putting healthcare workers into the shoes of their clients? 360-degree video delivered through a virtual reality (VR) headset gives us an opportunity to immerse health care providers into the perspective of their clients. During this session, we will discuss des...

Several countries have adopted OpenHIE, a multi-layered high-level architecture for information exchange. Similarly, HL7 fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) is an emerging healthcare standard built on web standards. FHIR is open source with vibrant private support from Apple, Microsoft,...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is actively encouraging countries to implement National Health Workforce Accounts (NHWA), a system to "progressively improve the availability, quality, and use of data on health workforce through monitoring of a set of indicators” that will advance health care t...

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...

The use of technology has the ability to improve the quality and efficiency of health care by rapidly providing health care providers with the information they need to effectively manage their patients. One crucial source of information for health providers is laboratory results. As more low- and mi...

Across the digital health industry, there have been significant efforts to both set national digital health strategies and align ecosystems to achieve them. As more countries develop national digital health strategies, project funding mechanisms are aligning these strategies to their own work plans....

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 ...

The first half of this session will provide participants with insights into what Blockchain is and what it is not. It will highlight when a global health solution will need a blockchain solution. It was give the key distinguishing features of blockchain and how it relates to traditional applications...

Widespread use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) for clinical care has increased the availability of longitudinal, individual level data at both facility and national level. At an individual level, data can help to monitor health outcomes. However, when health outcomes are monitored for cohorts o...