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