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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.
Read MoreDigital 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.
Read MoreHear 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreIn 2023, 41 participants from 4 countries completed a year-long digital health executive education program. Read the participants’ takeaways here.
Read More115 global goods innovators, developers, implementers, and donors met for five days of "un-conferencing." Read summit highlights here.
Read MoreDigital 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreDigital 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.
Read MoreDigital 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.
Read MoreDigital Square grounds its approaches in Enterprise Architecture, building on the successes and lessons learned across PATH. We partner with countries to implement or strengthen the technical structure of a holistic, interoperable digital system and expand country capacity to manage it over the long-term.
Read MoreThe strategy reaffirms Digital Square’s existing vision and mission, updates our theory of change and metrics for measuring impact, and—perhaps most importantly—articulates what we believe our role is in the digital health sector. It also captures pivotal shifts in how we approach each area of our work: improving alignment and co-investment in digital health, strengthening the global goods ecosystem, and supporting countries’ digital transformation.
Read MoreDigital Square at PATH is excited to announce 36 global goods from 19 countries spread across six continents as the successful applicants of the first round of Notice G. Launched in late August 2022, Notice G was a unique call for software applications, focused on a revised evaluation of Digital Square’s current approved global goods and identification of new global goods. Unlike previous calls, Notice G was not associated with funding, allowing us to open up the process to focus on a tool’s alignment with open source principles and maturity.
Read MoreIn September 2022, DICE launched the delivery of a course that aimed to equip health leaders with the skills necessary to lead digital health systems planning in their countries, resulting in scalable, sustainable, and interoperable systems. The 12-week “Digital Health: Planning National Systems'' online course was developed to empower ministry leadership with the technical concepts and planning tools necessary to steer and orient national digital health stakeholders.
Read MoreGDHF 2022 convened over 500 digital health advocates in-person in Arlington, Virginia, and invited an additional 1,500 participants online, creating a hybrid space where partnership and innovation could bloom.
Read MoreThe Rockefeller Foundation and PATH announced the Digital Results Improve Vaccine Equity and Demand (DRIVE Demand) project, a two-year, US$5 million partnership with PATH’s Digital Square initiative to deploy and expand the use of digital health tools in Jamaica, Mali, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Zambia.
Read MoreCosts are a major consideration when planning a digital health intervention. Digital Square’s new Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Tool is an interactive budgeting and benchmarking resource intended to help health leaders understand and develop realistic budgets for digital health projects.
Read MoreDigital Square is pleased to announce its endorsement of the Charter for Digital Public Goods (DPG Charter), a multi-stakeholder campaign to align and mobilize diverse stakeholders and initiatives around a compelling shared vision for digital public goods (DPGs).
Read MoreWe believe that supporting and scaling locally led innovations can help ensure that the implementation of digital programs is equitable.
Read MorePATH supports local entrepreneurs to expand access to and sustainability of digital health tools.
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