A crucial part of Digital Square’s work is removing the barriers to women’s equal access to digital health services and decision-making at all levels of the digital health ecosystem.
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The 2023 Global Digital Health Forum emphasized the need for localized, country-led digital transformation, gender-equitable digital health programs, climate change adaptation, and normative guidelines.
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By 2050, the world's population is projected to reach 9.7 billion and 64% of people are expected to live in urban areas. Digital health solutions can help address challenges and enhance urban health care systems.
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Tanzania’s Unified Community System is an information system designed to enhance health service delivery at the grassroots level.
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In November, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) took a decisive step toward digitally transforming its health care system by formally adopting the enterprise architecture (EA) framework.
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Digital Square collaborated with the Government of Zanzibar to develop an innovative digital platform—the Mass ITN Distribution System—to streamline the data capture process for planning, user registration, and distribution of insecticide treated nets to households for malaria prevention.
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In collaboration with the Government of Tanzania, Digital Square analyzed Tanzania's existing immunization ecosystem to identify gaps, challenges, and opportunities for strengthening digital immunization systems in Tanzania.
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In Malawi, the DIPC project is building the nation's electronic immunization registry (EIR) to capture and provide access to immunization data in real-time, resulting in a system that is more efficient and responsive to pandemics like COVID-19 than the current paper-based immunization registration system.
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The Youth Ownership of Digital Health (YO.DH) initiative is a pioneering platform designed to empower the next generation of emerging thinkers and future leaders to drive digital health, providing a space for collaboration and leadership development.
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Digital Square took a comprehensive approach to understanding the current state of Ghana's immunization health domain in partnership with GHS. The team first conducted a desk review of Ghana's health and digital governance documents, and then deployed a survey to regional IT managers, and consulted with ministry of health leaders to validate the assessment and identify areas for improving the digital health immunization ecosystem.
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Digital Square is supporting Senegal's Ministry of Health and Social Action in its digital health transformational journey. This culminated in the launch of an enterprise architecture to achieve a holistic and sustainable digital transformation of the healthcare system.
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Digital Square has helped advance digital adaptation kits (DAKs), tools that provide standardized documentation distilling WHO’s health and data recommendations into a format that countries can localize and incorporate into digital systems.
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Hear from Digital Square’s new executive director, Bilal Mateen, in an interview covering his background and what he views as the most significant challenges and opportunities in digital health.
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The Sustainability Calculator was developed by analyzing costed digital health roadmap data from 13 African countries with a digital health maturity level between 1 and 3. This data was then used to generate a suggested high-level cost-per-person estimate by digital health maturity level. All budget line items within the roadmaps were coded as development, deployment, or operations by Digital Square’s market analytics experts to understand the proportional breakdown of each category.
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In 2023, 41 participants from 4 countries completed a year-long digital health executive education program. Read the participants’ takeaways here.
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115 global goods innovators, developers, implementers, and donors met for five days of "un-conferencing." Read summit highlights here.
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Digital Square is excited to announce the launch of its second-round global call dedicated to content global goods under Notice G. This call, Notice G1, seeks to support the discoverability, accessibility, and promotion of content global goods, which are crucial for building better digital health systems for low-middle-income countries.
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The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and PATH’s Digital Square initiative are partnering with ministries of health in Ghana, Malawi, and Tanzania to select and adapt digital tools to strengthen immunization systems through the Digital Innovation in Pandemic Control (DIPC) project. The project launched in November 2022 and will run through November 2024.
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Digital Square is excited to announce the fourth edition of our Global Goods Guidebook, featuring a comprehensive overview of the 36 software global goods approved by Digital Square’s Notice G0 Open Application Process. Through the Guidebook, Digital Square aims to showcase the value of global goods; support the advocacy for ongoing adoption of global goods by countries; and generate additional sustained interest, investment, and support for global goods. This Guidebook has historically been one of our most requested and referenced resources, and this updated version aims to continue to serve as a trusted tool for country leaders, partners, and funders.
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Digital Square announced today that Dr. Bilal Mateen has been appointed new Executive Director, effective July 31, 2023. Dr. Mateen is an energetic and innovative leader with extensive experience in digital health, both as a clinician and practitioner of philanthropy. Prior to joining the Digital Square team, he has served as the Clinical Technology Lead and Senior Manager for Digital Technology at the Wellcome Trust – one of the world’s largest charitable foundations.
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