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The Rockefeller Foundation and PATH announced the Digital Results Improve Vaccine Equity and Demand (DRIVE Demand) project, a two-year, US$5 million partnership with PATH’s Digital Square initiative to deploy and expand the use of digital health tools in Jamaica, Mali, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Zambia.
Read MoreAs the pandemic continues to rage, public health officials are combating third or fourth waves of COVID-19 even as they are beginning to vaccinate their populations. We have seen countries around the globe, such as the United States, struggle to rollout the vaccine quickly, efficiently, and equitably amid the many demands that COVID-19 has placed on public health systems. These challenges are no different for low-to middle-income countries (LMICs), where public health systems are already stressed.
Read MoreFor the last five years, Digital Square has been working with ministries of health to align adaptable, interoperable digital technologies with local health needs. As the COVID-19 pandemic intensified, Digital Square was perfectly placed to coordinate the adaptation of existing digital health global goods to meet countries’ needs to fight COVID-19.
Read MoreIt’s early 2015, and the weekly coordination meeting is about to begin. Colleagues from a dozen different organizations are gathered to support the Guinea Ministry of Health as it responds to the growing Ebola outbreak. Everyone here brings their own specialty—from epidemiology and health workforce support to digital health and data systems.
Read MoreEach quarter, Digital Square shines the spotlight on global goods and innovators in our community through our Global Goods Community Newsletter. Annah Ngaruro is a Project Management Institute-certified Project Management Professional and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional with 20 years of experience developing and supporting health information systems for variety of US government agencies. She is currently the DATIM Data Exchange and Interoperability portfolio lead responsible for providing the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy (S/GAC) Program Results for Impact Monitoring and Epidemic Control (PRIME) with portfolio leadership and product ownership for the data exchange and interoperability portfolio within the DATIM systems teams.
Read MoreDuring any disease outbreak, real-time communication between national health authorities and frontline health workers is critical to protecting health workers and saving lives. IntraHealth International’s mHero application—a two-way, mobile phone-based communication system that connects ministries of health and health workers—is designed to do exactly that.
Read MoreThere is an unprecedented effort underway to develop safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines. Through COVAX, lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) may receive enough vaccine doses for 20% of their population. Only if the vaccine is efficiently and equitably delivered will it stem the spread of the pandemic and speed economic recovery for hundreds of millions of people. LMICs will require robust and mature digital solutions to achieve this immense task.
Read MoreEach quarter, Digital Square shines the spotlight on global goods and innovators in our community through our Global Goods Community Newsletter. This interview was first shared in May 2020.
Read MoreOver the last six months, MedicMobile has built a series of CHT-powered tools to respond and mitigate the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic, as well as supporting new and existing partners to embed these tools into their systems to prevent the spread of disease, protect the most vulnerable, and provide care for those impacted by COVID-19.
Read MoreDigital technologies play an important role in the COVID-19 global response. Countries have leaned on digital and data systems to monitor, track, and manage their caseloads. They use data provided through these systems to better allocate resources and gain a clearer understanding of how COVID-19 is impacting their communities.
But with a large and growing selection of tools available, how do countries and donors know what tools are available? And importantly, what tools best suit their unique needs?
Read MoreIn a world of rapidly changing digital technologies, eHealth has become a major enabler for government to deliver quality services to the population using digital information and communication technologies.
To further this front, UNICEF Uganda in conjunction with IntraHealth International and GoodCitizen have supported the Ministry of Health to deploy a groundbreaking technology that will seamlessly integrate two of the Ministry of Health’s Community Health Information Systems, the RapidPro based FamilyConnect and the iHRIS based Community Health Worker (CHW) Registry.
Read MoreAs the global response to COVID-19 accelerates, thoughtful leaders in every sector are asking: how can we structure our response to not only respond to the needs of today, but to ‘build back better’ once the crisis is over?
Each quarter, Digital Square shines the spotlight on global goods and innovators in our community through our Global Goods Community Newsletter. This interview was first shared in May 2020.
Read MoreSince 2013, Uganda has worked closely with DHIS2 Tracker developers to configure and test Tracker to support case investigation and lab linkage of notifiable diseases. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 case investigation data needs were added to Uganda's eIDSR system.
Read MoreWhen LEGO blocks were first created, they were designed around “the system”—that is, all bricks will fit together with all other bricks forever. Pieces vary in color and shape, but the underlying system allows a brick produced 50 years ago to fit snugly with one produced today. New pieces can be added and designs customized for specific projects but, in the end, all LEGO bricks work together.
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