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Health Data Science Exchange: A concept to turn data into impact

We live in an age of digital health transformation. Everyone—from patients to health workers to health system managers—can benefit from the connections and information that digital technologies provide. Countries are embracing digital systems and approaches as an essential way to improve and expand health services. However, these digital health systems bring with them a flood of data, which requires tools, resources, and capabilities to turn data into actionable insights.

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Beyond interoperability: Working together in the age of digital health

The Global Goods Guidebook is the newest addition to the resources supporting greater collaboration in the digital health sector.  

Digital health is experiencing unprecedented growth in coordination and collaboration. Governments, funders, technology experts, and implementers, are working together in new and innovative ways. Collaboration requires shared language, shared values, and a shared vision. Many of these were codified in 2015 with the Principles of Digital Development—a set of nine principles that guide our actions and partnerships. Then last year, donors endorsed a set of Digital Investment Principles. The Digital Investment Principles describe the role investors have in promoting scalable, sustainable, accessible, interoperable, and evidence-based digital health systems. Both sets of principles have rallied  stakeholders around our shared responsibility to help countries meet their digital health needs. 

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