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PATH at the 2021 Global Digital Health Forum
PATH at the 2021 Global Digital Health Forum

Every year, the Global Digital Health Forum provides an opportunity for PATH and its partners to come together, share our work, and build a thriving community of digital health practitioners. This year, the Forum explores how digital technologies expand the reach of health services, improve the responsiveness of health systems, and accelerate our collective progress toward global health goals.

Sessions will provide a broad view of how COVID-19 has shifted our sector, ways the digital health community can better support frontline health workers, and why our work today has long-lasting implications for the future of health in the digital age.

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Global good partners in profile: Taylor Downs, OpenFn
Global good partners in profile: Taylor Downs, OpenFn

Each quarter, Digital Square shines the spotlight on global goods and innovators in our community through our Global Goods Community Newsletter. Taylor Downs is the Head of Products at OpenFN, whose mission is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of public health and humanitarian interventions around the world. Taylor oversees product strategy and development and is responsible for the long-term sustainability of the solutions that OpenFN provides for the “technology for development” sector.

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Global good partners in profile: Annah Ngaruro, ICF
Global good partners in profile: Annah Ngaruro, ICF

Each 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.

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Openness and value in the digital health sector
Openness and value in the digital health sector

The value of open source software goes far beyond cost. Open source software does provide a set of cost-effective, adaptable options for countries, but the benefits of open source are more complex and nuanced than cost savings. The growth of the open source ecosystem is due in large part to an ethos of openness that has reduced barriers of entry for new solutions, allowed countries the flexibility to deploy customizable solutions to meet their needs, and provided key capacity-building opportunities for emergent entrepreneurs and technologists in the countries where these systems were being deployed. Open source software can also deepen country ownership of their digital health systems, expanding a country’s choices for data hosting, vendor support, and applications beyond a single health vertical or program.

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Introducing the DHIS2 Community of Practice
Introducing the DHIS2 Community of Practice

Nearly a decade ago, the global community that uses District Health Information System 2 (DHIS2) began reaching out to one another in forums and email chains to work through complex problems. They wanted to know if others had encountered a challenge, and, if so, how they solved it. Could they avoid “reinventing the wheel”? What lessons could be learned from the experience of others and could they apply them to their challenge?

Everyone was longing for one central place to connect with each other—to find relevant resources, share user stories and solutions, and ask for support…

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