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Given the shifts in the ecosystem over the past several years and in response to community feedback, Digital Square recently launched a special call for applications, Notice G, which is dedicated to funding digital health technologies worldwide that qualify as global goods. Existing global goods are invited to participate in this call.
Read MoreUser experience (UX) design is driving value in digital health and shaping the future of health care worldwide. Through UX design, companies provide meaningful digital health products that facilitate positive interactions and experiences for end-users.
Read MoreSince its inception in 2016, Digital Square at PATH has worked with ministries of health to align adaptable, interoperable digital technologies with local health needs. Through a five-year extension of PATH’s cooperative agreement with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Digital Square will continue its work to connect health leaders to scalable, sustainable digital health interventions that advance health equity and enhance local capacity to drive and sustain digital transformation.
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 MoreDigital technology has changed the way health information is collected, used, and communicated, and it has the potential to dramatically improve health service delivery. Health workers are better able to track and serve patients, health officials are better able to allocate resources, and patients have greater access to information to fulfill their health care needs. However, poor coordination in the digital health sector has led to duplicate systems, fragmented data, and frustration for health workers, decision-makers, and patients alike. The sector is recognizing this historic lack of coordination as a barrier to its collective success. To address it, governments and donors are forging a new way forward.
The Coordinating Digital Transformation case study series explores three examples of how stakeholders came together to create mechanisms for coordinating digital health investments and implementations, and as a result are improving the quality and use of health data.
Read MoreDigital 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.
Read MoreDigital Square is pleased to announce its new Executive Director, Skye Gilbert.
In this role, Skye will help guide the future of Digital Square’s co-investment, global goods, country capacity, and regional partnership work. When she is not busy driving towards health equity, Skye can be found rock climbing or skiing in the mountains. Read more about her motivation for leading Digital Square.
Read MoreThe Digital Square team, along with other members of PATH’s Digital Health Program will be joining colleagues and collaborators from around the world for the 2018 Global Digital Health Forum. This year, the Forum explores how new frameworks like the Classifications of Digital Health Interventions can help us design a shared language for digital health. With a shared language, digital health practitioners are better able to create holistic, seamless digital health systems that make use of different tools, partners, and workflows to meet the diverse and ever-changing needs of a country’s health care system.
Read MoreWhether on the political, scientific, or cultural front, the world today is in a state of flux. Reviews from BCG, McKinsey, Deloitte, and Accenture highlight major demographic shifts, the increasing importance of technology in health, and the convergence of business and technical considerations. Digital platforms and solutions are emerging as a source of hope, inspiration, and connection.
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