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. 2018 Oct 10;6(Suppl 1):S5-S17.
doi: 10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00230. Print 2018 Oct 10.

Establishing Standards to Evaluate the Impact of Integrating Digital Health into Health Systems

Alain Labrique  1 , Lavanya Vasudevan  1   2   3 , William Weiss  1 , Kate Wilson  4
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Establishing Standards to Evaluate the Impact of Integrating Digital Health into Health Systems

Alain Labrique et al. Glob Health Sci Pract. .

Abstract

The key milestones in the rise of digital health illustrate efforts to bridge gaps in the evidence base, a shifting focus to scale-up and sustainability, growing attention to the precise costing of these strategies, and an emergent implementation science agenda that better characterizes the ecosystem—the social, political, economic, legal, and ethical context that supports digital health implementation—necessary to take digital health approaches to scale.

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Map of Digital Health Pilot Projects in Uganda in 2010 Source: Sean Blaschke, UNICEF, written communication, May 2016.
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WHO Model Illustrating Health System Constraints Source: Mehl (2014).
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WHO Classification of Digital Health Interventions Released December 2017 Source: WHO (2018).
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Methods and Objectives of Monitoring and Evaluation Activities Across the Lifespan of a Digital Health Program Source: World Health Organization (2016).
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WHO-ITU National eHealth Strategy Toolkit eHealth Building Blocks Abbreviations: ITU, International Telecommunication Union; WHO, World Health Organization. Source: WHO and ITU (2012).
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The PATH-Vital Wave Data Use Cycle Source: PATH (2016).
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