20 Essential Resources: Data management and digital health for COVID-19 vaccination

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DATA MANAGEMENT AND DIGITAL HEALTH FOR COVID-19 VACCINATION

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Digital Square COVID-19 Resources

As with most public health emergencies, consistent and reliable information is essential in efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19. Across the globe, digital health technologies are being leveraged to support communication and information sharing, disease monitoring and surveillance, and the delivery of healthcare services including the COVID-19 vaccine. This collection on data management and digital health technologies for COVID-19 is intended to assist professionals in: 1) examining the role of digital health technologies in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, 2) addressing gaps in the application of these technologies, and 3) adapting and deploying digital tools to support program monitoring and data collection in their own contexts.

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USAID Digital Health Vision

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Considerations: Programmatic COVID-19 Preparedness and Response

USAID (2020)

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Leveraging PEPFAR-Supported Health Information Systems for COVID Response

Emerging Infectious Diseases (2022)

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Contributors Writers: Erin Broas (CCP) and Natalie Apcar (CCP) Reviewers: Adele Waugaman (USAID), Greg Pirio (USAID) and Marla Shaivitz (CCP) About Knowledge SUCCESS Knowledge SUCCESS (Strengthening Use, Capacity, Collaboration, Exchange, Synthesis, and Sharing) is a five-year (2019-2024) global project led by a consortium of partners and funded by USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health to support learning, and create opportunities for collaboration and knowledge exchange, within the family planning and reproductive health community. We use an intentional and systematic approach, called knowledge management, to help programs and organizations working in family planning and reproductive health collect knowledge and information, organize it, connect others to it, and make it easier for people to use.

This collection was curated and published in July 2023. Resource links were active at the date of publication. Image credits: Sarah Grile, USAID/Karen Kasmauski, Riaz Jahanpour for USAID/Digital Development Communications, USAID/Indonesia, KC Nwakalor for USAID/Digital Development Communications, Jack Gordon for USAID/Digital Development Communications, USAID/Egypt, USAID/Ghana, World Bank/Henitsoa Rafalia, Jack Gordon for USAID/Digital Development Communications, USAID/Uganda, Riaz Jahanpour for USAID Tanzania/Digital Development Communications, USAID/Nigeria, UNICEF/UN0626353/Ghosh, and UNICEF/Sean Blaschke.

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This collection is made possible is made possible by the support of the American People through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Knowledge SUCCESS (Strengthening Use, Capacity, Collaboration, Exchange, Synthesis, and Sharing) Project. Knowledge SUCCESS is supported by USAID’s Bureau for Global Health, Office of Population and Reproductive Health and led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) in partnership with Amref Health Africa, The Busara Center for Behavioral Economics (Busara), and FHI 360. The contents of this webpage are the sole responsibility of CCP. The information provided on this webpage does not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or the Johns Hopkins University.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020)

Guide to Global Digital Tools for COVID-19 Response

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Primer on Digital Solutions for COVID-19

Digital Health Centre of Excellence (2022)

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Devex (2021)

Smart Data Management Key to Successful Vaccine Rollouts

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COVID-19: Digital Health Facilitating Telerehabilitation

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USAID Map & Match of Digital Systems for COVID-19 Deployment

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Identifying, Reaching, and Monitoring Zero-Dose and Under-Immunized Children

MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership (2022)

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The Digital Health Centre of Excellence (DICE)

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Digital Solutions to Support National Deployment and Vaccination Plans

Digital Health Centre of Excellence (2021)

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Digital Health & Data Management Implementation Experiences

Shifo Foundation/WHO/M-RITE

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DHIS2 (2020)

COVID-19 Surveillance, Response & Vaccine Delivery Toolkit

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COVID-19 Dashboard (WHO African region)

AFRO GIS Center (2023)

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This resource is USAID’s first dedicated policy guidance for its investments in digital technologies that support health programs in its partner countries. The Digital Health Vision addresses the challenges of fragmentation, lack of sustainability, and limited interoperability of many digital health technologies used in USAID’s partner countries. To address these challenges, the Vision outlines a systems-level approach to supporting partner countries’ health sector digital transformation. The document presents a roadmap for how USAID can strategically support its partner countries as they strengthen the digital transformation of their health sectors, especially by encouraging careful planning, interoperability, strong governance, and long-term sustainability. About USAID USAID is the world’s premier international development agency and a catalytic actor driving development results. USAID’s work advances U.S. national security and economic prosperity, demonstrates American generosity, and promotes a path to recipient self-reliance and resilience.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the clear need for the world to be better prepared the next time a public health emergency of this scale strikes. The detailed learnings from COVAX partners captured in this paper provides key considerations for designing future pandemic preparedness and response architecture. It is essential to global health security that these considerations are acknowledged, anticipated, analyzed, and responded to – with improvements made and solutions put in place in advance of the next pandemic.

USAID (2022)

USAID Digital Health Vision

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This collection of resources can help those engaged with vaccination efforts to plan and deploy data and digital tools effectively. It provides tools to support professionals in balancing the sometimes-competing imperatives to act quickly while strengthening existing systems and addressing long-term sustainability.

This webpage contains information on Digital Square Programs supporting the COVID-19 pandemic response and strengthening routine immunization systems. It also features articles, webinar recordings, illustrations, and other resources focused on how digital tools are being adapted to support country responses to COVID-19. About Digital Square Digital Square is a thriving digital health marketplace. It is a PATH-led initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a consortium of other partners.

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Digital Square COVID-19 Resources

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Coordinating initiatives, establishing data protocols, reusing digital tools, and working with the private sector are essential to a strategic emergency response. The recommendations outlined in this resource on data and digital technologies can prepare USAID Mission staff, partners, and other professionals to develop plans for coordinated investment in and mobilization of digital solutions.

This resource includes steps that responders and decision makers can take to increase institutional readiness to prevent, detect, and respond to COVID-19 and its effects, using a strategic approach to leveraging country digital technologies and data systems. It frames the preparation and response planning process in terms of “What can be done today? This week? This month?” and outlines lessons learned from the West African Ebola Outbreak Response. About USAID USAID is the world’s premier international development agency and a catalytic actor driving development results. USAID’s work advances U.S. national security and economic prosperity, demonstrates American generosity, and promotes a path to recipient self-reliance and resilience.

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Considerations for USAID Mission Staff for Programmatic COVID-19 Preparedness and Response: Digital Technologies and Data Systems

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Setting up a new health information system for any disease takes considerable effort and time and involves high-level strengths and needs assessments, resource allocation, technical development, pilot testing, training, and implementation. This article shows that existing health information systems can be expanded or enhanced to support COVID-19 clinical case management, surveillance, laboratory results, and dashboards, and can improve timeliness and usefulness of data for decision-making.

This article describes efforts by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that enhanced existing HIV/AIDS health information systems in support of the COVID-19 pandemic response. It describes CDC activities in Haiti as an illustration of efforts in PEPFAR-funded countries. It discusses how investments to establish and maintain standards-based health information systems in resource-constrained settings can positively affect health systems beyond their original scope. About Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published monthly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, promotes the recognition of new and reemerging infectious diseases around the world and improves the understanding of factors involved in disease emergence, prevention, and elimination.

Emerging Infectious Diseases (2022)

Leveraging PEPFAR-Supported Health Information Systems for COVID-19 Pandemic Response

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This article provides examples of how countries can manage data during COVID-19 vaccine rollouts. Outcomes from Rwanda’s movement to a digital health registry and other data systems indicate that smart data management can be an efficient and successful tool for addressing a country’s data needs.

This blog post discusses the role of advanced planning and smart data management in the rapid initiation of a COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Using examples from Rwanda and Sierra Leone, it describes the advantages of digitized health systems, the use of electronic cards for tracking vaccination status, the development of software for vaccine stock management, and other uses of digital technology for vaccine rollout. About Devex Devex is the world’s leading independent news organization covering global development. A social enterprise, it connects and informs over 1 million development, health, humanitarian, and sustainability professionals through news, business intelligence, and funding and career opportunities.

Devex (2021)

Smart Data Management Key to Successful Vaccine Rollouts

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Telemedicine serves essential functions during the COVID-19 pandemic, including allowing continuity of care for patients who can benefit from remote rehabilitation consultations while ensuring greater protection for those who are members of vulnerable groups. It is also a safe way to provide continuity of care for chronic or long-term treatments where non-disruption is key to success. This resource offers an introductory overview of telerehabilitation and recommendations for telerehabilitation practice.

This resource provides information on telerehabilitation, a branch of telemedicine in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) and, in advanced cases, remote-control technologies such as robotics are used to directly provide remote rehabilitation activities. It describes why telerehabilitation is essential during the COVID-19 pandemic, how it can be strengthened, its limits, and considerations for its use. About Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) PAHO is the specialized international health agency for the Americas. It works with countries throughout the region to improve and protect people’s health.

Pan American Health Organization (2021)

COVID-19: Digital Health Facilitating Telerehabilitation

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Findings and recommendations from this report can be used to inform project investments in health information systems and data tools. They are also relevant for immunization funders and decision makers who are considering how to invest in strengthening health information systems to identify, reach, and monitor zero-dose and under-immunized children, and which gaps to prioritize for closing.

This landscape analysis describes information systems and tools to identify, reach, and monitor zero-dose and under-immunized children, with a focus on how they are being used in MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity (M-RITE) project countries, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kenya, Mozambique, and Nigeria. About MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership (MCGL) MCGL supports governments, local partners, and initiatives at national and international levels to advance technical leadership and achieve goals around maternal, newborn, and child health, voluntary family planning, and reproductive health services.

Landscape Analysis of Health Information Systems and Data Tools for Identifying, Reaching, and Monitoring Zero-Dose and Under-Immunized Children

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This resource is designed to help countries, donors, implementing partners, and the global digital health community at large to leverage and adapt existing digital tools in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prioritizing the reuse and adaptation of existing digital tools is vital to quickly scale access to time-sensitive disease information and data.

The USAID-funded Map & Match project documents the landscape of existing, adaptable software tools used at scale in countries and matches those tools with potential uses in outbreak response. Included in the project are country briefs on existing digital tools and opportunities for adaptation, Digital Applications and Tools Across an Epidemiological Curve (DATEC)—a strategic framework for understanding how digital tools can be adapted and used during different phases of an outbreak—and framework and triangulation tools to measure the scale of digital deployments. Note: This resource is available through Digital Square but specifically serves to guide the selection/adaptation of digital health tools, and has therefore been included in this list of essential resources. About Digital Square Digital Square is a thriving digital health marketplace. It is a PATH-led initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a consortium of other partners. About USAID USAID is the world’s premier international development agency and a catalytic actor driving development results. USAID’s work advances U.S. national security and economic prosperity, demonstrates American generosity, and promotes a path to recipient self-reliance and resilience.

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USAID Map & Match of Digital Systems for COVID-19 Deployment

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This resource provides examples to planners, funders, and implementers looking to use digital health tools for pandemic and post-pandemic responses. It was created to guide digital investments in support of the COVID-19 vaccination response and is aimed at strengthening primary health care and health systems. It supports planners and implementers in designing for digital health systems that are sustainable and help enable integrated care.

This resource offers vivid illustrations of how countries have adapted and scaled existing tools and systems to meet emerging, urgent needs during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they have prepared for future threats. The primer showcases case studies that highlight the use of data and digital health tools to support immunization service delivery, including planning and management, cold chain and supply logistics, and service delivery. Note: This resource is available through Digital Square but specifically serves to showcase digital health tools, and has therefore been included in this list of essential resources. About the Digital Health Centre of Excellence (DICE) DICE provides coordinated technical assistance to countries to support the sustainable and scalable deployment of carefully chosen and mature digital health solutions to address issues such as the planning and distribution of medicines and vaccines, service delivery and supply management, epidemiological surveillance and case detection, monitoring coverage of service uptake, training of health workers, and others. About Digital Square Digital Square is a thriving digital health marketplace. It is a PATH-led initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a consortium of other partners.

Digital Health Centre of Excellence/Digital Square (2022)

Primer on Digital Solutions for COVID-19

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This guide consolidates information on the primary digital tools that are being reported to the CDC and the functions that are commonly asked about. It is a dynamic resource that is updated as additional tools are reported from field offices and can support responders and implementers in selecting tools that are applicable and useful to their contexts.

The guide compares the District Health Information Software (DHIS2), the Surveillance, Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS), Go.Data, Open Data Kit (ODK), Epi Info, CommCare, KoboToolbox, Excel, and paper. Each has been deployed in various countries for contact tracing, investigations, and/or, in the case of DHIS2 and SORMAS, national surveillance. Paper is also included because it continues to be used and there are a number of resources available online for the COVID-19 response. About Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) CDC is the nation’s leading science-based, data-driven, service organization that protects the public’s health. CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety, and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020)

Guide to Global Digital Tools for COVID-19 Response

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By better coordinating the development of digital health global goods, stakeholders can reduce duplication and ensure that platforms are not only more aligned with national priorities, but that they strengthen health systems.

This resource is a comprehensive guidebook of global goods, organized by the WHO Classification of Digital Health Interventions.The guidebook begins with an overview of the global goods ecosystem, including practical information about the procurement and implementation of global goods and clarification about the related category of digital public goods. Each entry includes key information relevant for a wide range of stakeholders and decision makers including description, interoperability details, adaptation for use for COVID-19, screenshots, and tool type. About Digital Square Digital Square is a thriving digital health marketplace. It is a PATH-led initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a consortium of other partners.

Digital Square (2022)

Global Goods Guidebook

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These toolkits are designed to accelerate high-quality implementation of health information systems and digital solutions for public health programs. Installable metadata packages facilitate the uptake of global data standards and best design practices while enabling flexibility for localization and customization for country workflows. The technical guidance, implementation guides, demo databases, and training materials included with the metadata packages provide the resources needed for a country to hit the ground running and implement customized solutions.

This resource contains metadata packages of standards-based, best-practice configurations that countries or organizations can install and modify on their own District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2). The COVID-19 Surveillance & Response Toolkit includes metadata packages to accelerate case detection, situation reporting, active surveillance, and response for COVID-19. The COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Toolkit contains metadata packages to strengthen national immunization systems, introduce fit-for-purpose digital solutions, and leverage local expertise for equitable COVID-19 vaccine delivery. Each package is accompanied by a corresponding System Design Document, which provides details about the use case and configuration of the package, and an Installation Guide on preparing, importing, and adapting the package. About DHIS2 DHIS2 is an open-source, web-based platform most commonly used as a health management information system (HMIS). DHIS2 software development is a global collaboration managed by the HISP Centre at the University of Oslo (UiO).

DHIS2 (2020)

COVID-19 Surveillance, Response & Vaccine Delivery Toolkit

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This resource provides a consistent and reliable information system across countries. It functions to maintain and update COVID-19 epidemiological data, promote international coordination and awareness of the situation in the Americas, and facilitate the most updated information available to countries, in order to reinforce national surveillance systems.

The Geo-Hub for COVID-19 includes a series of dashboards and epidemiological data updated daily across four sub-regions and 54 countries/territories in the Americas. The resource includes an interactive dashboard showing cumulative cases and deaths; cumulative incidence rate; new cases and deaths; as well as several other epidemiological indicators reported by countries and territories. About the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) PAHO is the specialized international health agency for the Americas. It works with countries throughout the region to improve and protect people’s health.

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Geo-Hub COVID-19 - Information System for the Region of the Americas

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This resource presents key takeaways from implementing digital health solutions in Latin America. In particular, it offers insights on the preconditions that favored accelerated implementation of digital health solutions and the mechanisms that will favor the sustainability of these solutions beyond COVID-19.

This blog post features key topics addressed in the webinar “Primary Health Care and Digital Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences from Latin America and the Caribbean Region,” the first of a series of webinars organized by the World Bank’s Primary Health Care Performance Initiative. The webinar provided an overview of the key challenges and lessons learned in Latin America and the Caribbean and showcased the country experiences of Uruguay and Colombia. About the World Bank The World Bank Group works in every major area of development. It provides a wide array of financial products and technical assistance and helps countries share and apply innovative knowledge and solutions to their challenges.

World Bank (2020)

Digital health solutions in primary health care during COVID-19: Lessons from Latin America

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This resource provides access to current and reliable data on COVID-19. The dashboard enables efficient assessment of case volumes and severity to promote response coordination and inform resource allocation. It provides insights about the epidemiology of and response to COVID-19 within the WHO African region.

This resource contains a dashboard of cumulative cases and deaths, cumulative recoveries, new cases and deaths, and active cases, as well as several other epidemiological indicators, all updated daily. The dashboard also includes an interactive map of COVID-19-affected countries in the WHO African region and graphical representations of data. About AFRO’s Emergency Preparedness and Response GIS Center The AFRO GIS Center combats public health disasters head-on, using digital maps to plan outbreak interventions. Geospatial tools enable users to account for every person in health system planning, ensuring that even the hardest-to-reach populations have equitable access to vaccination and treatment coverage.

AFRO’s Emergency Preparedness and Response GIS Center (2023)

COVID-19 Dashboard (WHO African region)

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DICE provides technical support and resources for the sustainable and scalable deployment of carefully chosen and mature digital health solutions to issues such as the planning and distribution of medicines and vaccines, service delivery and supply management, epidemiological surveillance and case detection, monitoring coverage of service uptake, training of health workers, and others. DICE can also support coordination between donors and development partners at the regional and global levels.

The Digital Health Centre of Excellence (DICE) is a multi-agency consortium co-led by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO). DICE works to improve donor coordination, ensure alignment with the Digital Investment Principles, guide investments into digital public goods and global goods, and provide targeted technical assistance and quality assurance to countries. The center works through existing UNICEF and WHO regional and country structures, bolstering the capacity to identify, develop, and scale digital solutions in support of national health priorities. About UNICEF UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. About the World Health Organization WHO is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners, and people to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable—so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health.

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The Digital Health Centre of Excellence (DICE)

Uganda Resource

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The case studies illustrate a variety of country experiences establishing and implementing digital health and data management solutions. The documentation of interventions, impacts, benefits, challenges, opportunities, and key lessons provides evidence for the success and feasibility of digital data solutions for COVID-19 vaccination responses and can inform future implementation efforts.

This resource includes a compilation of digital health and data management implementation experiences developed by programs across the globe. They include blog posts and case studies on: - Establishing national digital registration for COVID-19 in Uganda (Shifo Foundation) - Training health workers on data management for COVID-19 vaccination in Mozambique (WHO) - Developing a multi-faceted monitoring, evaluation, and learning system for COVID-19 vaccination activities in India (M-RITE) - Leveraging existing digital data solutions for COVID-19 vaccination response in India (WHO) - Strengthening planning and forecasting tools to efficiently distribute and vaccinate hard-to-reach populations in Vietnam (M-RITE) About Shifo Foundation Shifo Foundation works with partners and local governments to replace inefficient, fragmented, and expensive health information systems with simple and cost-effective solutions, making the highest quality of data available everywhere regardless of infrastructure limitations. About the World Health Organization WHO is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners and people to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable—so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health. About MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity (M-RITE) The M-RITE project applies best practices and explores innovations to increase equitable immunization coverage in USAID-supported countries around the globe.

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Bulk Resources on Digital Health & Data Management Experiences in: Uganda, Mozambique, India, and Vietnam

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GIS technologies have become essential tools in vaccine distribution planning, monitoring, and evaluation; answering questions around equity, resource allocation, and coverage; and improving collaboration among COVID-19 responders (from community health workers to Ministries of Health to international organizations). This list of cutting-edge GIS technologies can support countries in selecting tools that are appropriate for their information needs and context.

This resource summarizes different ways Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is being leveraged for COVID-19 vaccine distribution planning, monitoring and evaluation, and ensuring universal health coverage for COVID-19 treatment and vaccination. It provides descriptions of and links to GIS tools for global coordination, mapping vulnerable communities, and contact tracing. It also discusses the role of GIS in digital microplanning, the process of demarcating catchment areas to be covered by each COVID-19 vaccination center, for effective vaccine distribution. About the World Health Organization (WHO) GIS Centre for Health By connecting maps, apps, data, and people, the WHO GIS Centre is dedicated to supporting countries and partners to make informed public health decisions faster and to extend the reach of geospatial information across the organization.

World Health Organization (WHO) GIS Centre for Health (2021)

Cutting Edge GIS Technologies for COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery

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This resource provides key considerations for introducing a vaccine and leveraging digital solutions to support its deployment. It outlines steps and recommendations for developing vaccine delivery strategies, identifying and selecting appropriate digital health interventions, evaluating the capacity of the environment to support the selected digital health interventions, and understanding the influence of national policies and regulations on digital health implementation plans.

This guide provides an overview of the most promising evidence-based digital innovations and procedures that can be deployed at different times during vaccine planning, distribution, and scale-up in low- and middle-income settings, using the National Deployment and Vaccination Plan (NDVP) framework. The proposed actions complement broader guidance and reference the WHO Digital Implementation Investment Guide (DIIG) and the UNICEF digital health guidance for COVID-19 response. About the Digital Health Centre of Excellence (DICE) DICE provides coordinated technical assistance to countries to support the sustainable and scalable deployment of carefully chosen and mature digital health solutions to address issues such as the planning and distribution of medicines and vaccines, service delivery and supply management, epidemiological surveillance and case detection, monitoring coverage of service uptake, training of health workers, and others.

Digital Health Centre of Excellence (DICE) (2021)

Guidance on the use of digital solutions to support the COVID-19 national deployment and vaccination plans

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Resources are grouped into five categories:

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Pan American Health Organization (2021)

Digital Square/USAID (2021)

MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership (2022)

Digital Health & Data Management Systems

Tools for Mapping and Tracking

Guidance and Strategies

Lessons Learned on Digital Health Solutions and Response

World Bank (2020)/JSI (2022)

Geo-Hub COVID-19 - Information System for the Region of the Americas

Pan American Health Organization

World Health Organization (2021)

Cutting Edge GIS Technologies for COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery

Digital Square

Digital Health & Data Management Systems

Tools for Mapping and Tracking

COVID-19 and Digital Data Collection

USAID (2020)

COVID-19 and Digital Data Collection

USAID (2020)

This resource outlines a path to strengthen open, inclusive, and secure digital ecosystems in all USAID partner countries. It specifically focuses on the shift to “digital by default,” referring to the collection of programmatic data digitally (e.g., by tablet, mobile phone, etc.) to the greatest extent possible. This resource defines digital data collection and provides considerations for digital data collection in COVID-19 responses, including key questions, risks, and opportunities. About USAID USAID is the world’s premier international development agency and a catalytic actor driving development results. USAID’s work advances U.S. national security and economic prosperity, demonstrates American generosity, and promotes a path to recipient self-reliance and resilience.

Digital data collection tools play a key role in the continued monitoring of COVID-19 programs and the collection of data relevant to response efforts. The considerations for digital data collection in the COVID-19 response can guide efficient and effective implementation of these tools.

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Digital Health & Data Management Systems

About Ministry of Health, Republic of Indonesia The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia aims to improve public health status through community empowerment and to protect public health by ensuring the availability of health efforts that are complete, evenly distributed, excellent, and just.

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Digital Health & Data Management Systems

Tools for Mapping and Tracking

Digital Health & Data Management System

Digital Square (2022)

Global Goods Guidebook

Tools for Mapping and Tracking

Guidance or Strategies

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Guidance and Strategies

Case Studies

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Digital Health & Data Management Systems

Kenya

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Knowledge SUCCESS

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Case Studies

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Digital Tool

Resource Hub

India M-RITE Resource

Vietnam Resource

Mozambique Resource

India WHO Resource

This resource details Ethiopia’s experience leveraging existing digital tools and developing new technologies for COVID-19 preparedness, prevention, care, and treatment efforts. It discusses the implementation of various digital health innovations that provided high-quality information for timely epidemic response, community education, and critical supply chain adjustments. It also includes factors that led to the rapid development, implementation, and adoption of digital tools. About JSI JSI is dedicated to improving people’s lives around the world through greater health, education, and socio-economic equity for individuals and communities, and to providing an environment where people of passion can pursue this cause.

JSI (2022)

Digital health response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons to inform ongoing and future digital health investments

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This experience from Ethiopia demonstrates the positive role of digital innovations in times of crisis. The lessons from the COVID-19 digital health response can be used for ongoing and future digital health interventions, helping accelerate overall health system digitization in Ethiopia and beyond.

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Digital health response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons to inform ongoing and future digital health investments

JSI (2022)

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