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DIGITAL HEALTH:TAKING A PRINCIPLED
APPROACH
Subhashini (Shubha) Chandrasekharan PhDAAAS Fellow, USAID Global Development LabAAAS Fellow, USAID Global Development LabAsst. Professor, Duke Global Health Institute
April 27, 2016MA4Health Conference
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Digital Health Today
Photo: Alex Graves
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Lab’s Approach for Stronger Health Information Systems
Programming will help the West Africa region prevent, detect, and respond to future disease epidemics through four interrelated areas of focus:
Governance:Institutional and human capacity of managers in HIS governance, leadership, and data- driven
Platforms & Interoperability:Targeted software platforms for
HIS are connected to enable health information exchange
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LAB EBOLA RECOVERY STRATEGY FOR IMPROVED HEALTH DATA
Improving the quality and use of health data for disease surveillance and health service delivery in West Africa will address key issues identified during the Ebola outbreak
leadership, and data- driven management improved
Technical Capacity:HIS software engineering expertise in the region developed and sustained
health information exchange
Connected Health Workers:Use of real-time data systems by connected health workers
for health service delivery
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Principles of Digital DevelopmentDESIGN WITH USER * ECOSYSTEM * SCALE * SUSTAINABILITY * OPEN * REUSE * PRIVACY / SECURITY *
COLLABORATIVE * DATA DRIVEN
Open DataOpen Data
Fuels innovation
Spurs economic growth
Improves government accountability & transparency
Increases citizen engagement
ResponsibleResponsible DataData
Important Considerations for Data Collection & Use
Is there potential harm to a community
Does the data include
sensitive information?
Is the data potentially
harmful
How long should the
data be kept
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Moving forward: What tools are needed?
Help us identify practical, actionable recommendations and tools to overcome barriers posed by putting the Principles into practice. Recommendations might include:
Funding Privacy &Security
Build Knowledge/Capacity
Standards/Semantics Ability to Iterate Guidance
Policies/Processes
Permission to Fail
Tools, e.g. How-to Manuals
Principles?
Principles? Heuristics!
sounding board rules of thumb intuitive sounding board rules of thumb intuitive judgments best practices common sense