Knowledge Base

From the perspective of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH), the aim of this mapping is to chart and review the situation on the use of digital solutions in RMNCAH program implementation, utilization, and provision of services and its enabling environments such as digital health infrastructure and to find about opportunities for effective adoption, integration, and scale-up of digital solutions in RMNCAH.

DIGITAL SQUARE RECOGNIZES A COORDINATED APPROACH TO DIGITAL INVESTMENTS IS ESSENTIAL TO QUICKLY SCALE ACCESS TO TIME-SENSITIVE DATA AND INFORMATION NEEDED TO INFORM AN EFFECTIVE DISEASE OUTBREAK RESPONSE. Without this critical alignment of funding to existing digital health infrastructure, there is a risk of deepening fragmentation of digital tools and data silos that could hamper COVID-19response efforts and undermine health systems. As the world learned during the West Africa Ebola outbreak response, prioritizing the reuse and adaptation of existing digital tools is vital to quickly scale access to time-sensitive disease information and data. The USAID-funded Map & Match project helps countries, donors, implementing partners, and the global digital health community at large to leverage and adapt existing digital tools in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Digital Health Atlas is a WHO global technology registry platform aiming to strengthen the value and impact of digital health investments, improve coordination, and facilitate institutionalization and scale.

This guide provides an overview of the most promising evidence-based digital innovations and procedures that can be deployed at different times during vaccine planning, distribution and scaling up in low- and middle income settings, using the NDVP framework.

The key aim of this guideline is to present recommendations based on a critical evaluation of the evidence on emerging digital health interventions that are contributing to health system improvements, based on an assessment of the benefits, harms, acceptability, feasibility, resource use and equity considerations.

This practical Guide serves as a companion to the “WHO guideline: recommendations on digital interventions for health system strengthening” and provides a systematic process for countries to develop a costed implementation plan for digital health within one or more health programme areas, drawing guidance from the WHO guideline recommended digital health interventions, providing direction to ensure investments are needs-based and contribute effective and interoperable systems aligned with national digital architecture, country readiness, health system and policy goals.

The Early Stage Digital Health Investment Tool (EDIT) is an essential first step for countries that are in the early stages of assessing readiness for digital health interventions or that are developing a more coordinated strategic approach to digital health.

The Digital Pandemic Preparedness Assessment (DPPA) Tool aims to provide a systematic methodology to identify needs for digital tools that integrate with countries’ existing digital ecosystem, while modernizing their overall pandemic preparedness, response and vaccination roll-out planning and execution.

UNICEF provided a digital health platform called CommCare to help Jamaica manage its national vaccine rollout.

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Health Information Systems (MEHIS) Strategy 2017–2022 provides the strategic vision and the targets to help monitor and evaluate the implementation of HSSP II. Additionally, the strategy aims to strengthen health information systems to enable the use of data in decision making. The MEHIS strategy compliments HSSP II, a strategy that will deliver universal health coverage in Malawi and ensure thatall people are able to enjoy a healthy and productive life.

This report presents the digital health tools that are in use in PNG with details of their usage and scale, and, where available, information about implementing agencies, donors and other additional resources.

This report presents the digital health tools that are in use in Mongolia with details of their usage and scale, and, where available, information about implementing agencies, donors and other additional resources.

This report presents the digital health tools that are in use in Vanuatu with details of their usage and scale, and, where available, information about implementing agencies, donors and other additional resources.

This report presents the digital health tools that are in use in Kiribati with details of their usage and scale, and, where available, information about implementing agencies, donors and other additional resources.

This guide provides an overview of the most promising evidence based digital innovations and procedures that can be deployed at different times during vaccine planning, distribution and scaling up in low- and middleincome settings, using the NDVP framework.

Digital solutions have direct value in health
emergencies, specifically where they have been
deployed and scaled for surveillance and contact tracing, data collection, remote health worker
training/motivation, risk communication and
community engagement (RCCE), and demand
generation.

This guidebook serves as a reference of 35 digital health global goods. It is
a living document, updated regularly, and designed to work in tandem with the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Classification of Digital Health Interventions v1.0.

To ensure countries can effectively benefit from digital health investments, “digital adaptation kits” (DAKs) are designed to facilitate the accurate
reflection of WHO’s clinical, public health and data use guidelines within the digital systems countries are adopting. DAKs are operational, softwareneutral, standardized documentation that distil clinical, public health and data use guidance into a format that can be transparently incorporated into
digital systems.

A fin de garantizar que los países puedan beneficiarse de manera eficaz de las inversiones que realizan en salud digital, se diseñaron kits de adaptación digital (KAD) para facilitar el reflejo de las directrices clínicas, de salud pública y de uso de datos dentro de los sistemas digitales que adoptan los países. Los constituyen documentación estandarizada, operativa y neutral de software que sintetiza las directrices clínicas, de salud pública y de uso de datos en un formato que puede incorporarse públicamente a los sistemas digitales.

To ensure countries can effectively benefit from digital health investments, “digital adaptation kits” (DAKs) are designed to facilitate the accurate
reflection of WHO’s clinical, public health and data use guidelines within the digital systems countries are adopting. DAKs are operational, softwareneutral, standardized documentation that distil clinical, public health and data use guidance into a format that can be transparently incorporated into
digital systems.