1. Capacity Building
for Digital Health
Leadership
Manish Kumar, MPH, MS
Liz Millar, MPH
MEASURE Evaluation
University of North Carolina
February 5, 2019
Webinar

2. Agenda
8:00-8:10 Introduction Manish Kumar
8:10-8:40 Digital Health
Capacity Building
Derrick Muneene, Hani
Eskandar
8:40-9:55 Discussion Liz Millar
8:55-9:00 Conclusion Manish Kumar

3. Digital technology for health
• Digital health plays an increasingly important role
in meeting health system information needs.
• Strong leadership and governance are crucial to
coordinate interventions and build capacity.
• Strategies to build capacity must adapt to
country-specific digital health and health
information needs.

4. Learning agenda questions

5. HIS for health system improvement
The HIS Stages
of Continuous
Improvement
Toolkit
Intervention tools and
packages for HIS
strengthening
Assessment
tools for specific
HIS areas
Interoperability
Toolkit
Health system
Service
delivery
A strong health information system (HIS)
What is a
strong HIS?
What are the
stages of
progression to a
strong HIS?
Leadership/
governance
Healthcare
financing
Health
workforce
Medical
products,
technologies
Information
and
research
Digital Health
Curriculum
Data
Demand Use
Tools

6. Resources to build capacity
• Health Information Systems
Strengthening Resource
Center
o RHIS curriculum
o Health informatics curriculum
• WHO-ITU digital health
curriculum
for digital health

7. Resources
HIS Strengthening Resource Center:
https://www.measureevaluation.org/his-strengthening-resource-center
RHIS Curriculum:
https://www.measureevaluation.org/our-work/routine-health-information-
systems/rhis-curriculum
Health Informatics Curriculum:
https://www.measureevaluation.org/resources/health-informatics-for-low-
and-middle-income-countries-short-course-for-health-information-system-
professionals/health-informatics-for-low-and-middle-income-countries-
short-course-for-health-information-system-professionals
Links

8. This presentation was produced with the support of the United States Agency
for International Development (USAID) under the terms of MEASURE
Evaluation cooperative agreement AID-OAA-L-14-00004. MEASURE
Evaluation is implemented by the Carolina Population Center, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partnership with ICF International; John Snow,
Inc.; Management Sciences for Health; Palladium; and Tulane University.
Views expressed are not necessarily those of USAID or the United States
government.
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