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When it comes to sustainability, one of the challenges faced by many open source digital solutions is the availability of sufficiently skilled developers to support and maintain the core product. At OpenMRS, the community discovered that greater adoption strained the availability of a small number of experienced developers, project managers, business analysts, and technical writers.
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 MoreEvery 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. We all know this year has been different. Instead of gathering in person, the 2020 Global Digital Health Forum is an all-virtual convening.
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 MoreWe 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.
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 MoreA coordinated approach to digital investments is essential to quickly scaling access to time-sensitive data and information needed to inform an effective disease outbreak response. Without this critical alignment of funding to existing digital infrastructure, we risk deepening fragmentation of digital tools and data silos in a way that will hamper COVID-19 response efforts and undermine health systems.
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 MoreThe recent emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of strong laboratory systems for detecting outbreaks of infectious diseases, as well as for other personal and population health purposes such as monitoring HIV viral load suppression among patients receiving antiretroviral treatment, or measuring pathogen resistance to antibiotics.
Read MoreDigital Square envisions a world where digitally-enabled health services close the health equity gap. We cannot achieve this vision without actively working to dismantle entrenched and systemic racism. We believe that digital health is an amplifier: it has great potential to accelerate progress towards health equity but without a deliberately anti-racist approach, risks perpetuating inequity. We must actively stand against racism. As an initiative hosted by PATH, Digital Square asserts that racism is an ongoing public health crisis--one that is directly counter to Digital Square's vision, mission, and values.
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.
Read MoreDigital Square’s Open Application Process (OAP) is an innovative approach to procurement that encourages collaborative thinking. The OAP is more than a standard competitive process; the OAP’s platform encourages applicants to share and engage with each other to crowd-source the most interoperable, adaptable tools and technologies for digital health investments.
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 2019.
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