GAPS Call to Action
Call to Action: Architecture
Note: Each call to action has high-impact action items and activity steps to guide implementation. It should be noted that this document is not targeted at any country and is flexible for the countries to edit and implement based on their current situation and emerging needs. While doing so, AeHIN expresses its availability to support the countries in custom-developing and implementing target-oriented strategies and actions.
High Impact Actions and Activity Steps
Develop a Blueprint
Develop a simple and easy to understand digital health blueprint aligned with national health strategies, policies, priorities, and needs.
- Conduct local, regional, and international benchmarking of best practices
and learnings - Constitute a working group with a broader representation of stakeholders
- Develop/revise (if already developed) the digital health blueprint aligned
with national and sub-national health priorities - Conduct public consultation
- Enforce the blueprint as a policy/vision document
Align the Blueprint
Align and disseminate the blueprint widely along with the country’s digital/e-governance vision/strategy.
- Involve stakeholders from the national digital/e-governance vision and strategy development mechanism
- Identify shared areas of interest, infrastructure, and funding
- Align the digital health vision with the national digital vision/strategy
- Conduct public consultation
- Institute a clear, accessible, version-controlled document and dissemination process
Future Ready Blueprint
Ensure that the digital health blueprint is integrated and interoperable with both health and non-health systems and the blueprint is future ready and updated periodically for emerging healthcare and technology needs.
- Enforce principles of one health in the digital health ecosystem and the digital health blueprint
- Decide on centralized/de-centralized approach as per the health system design and functions in the country
- Emphasize on data security, privacy, and protection
- Identify and integrate programmatic needs and data dependencies into the blueprint
- Promote private sector participation and innovation in designing new projects and new technologies to solve emerging health problems
Cost the Blueprint
Develop a time-bound comprehensive costed implementation plan based on the blueprint.
- Ensure that a costed implementation plan (if needed in phases) is included as part of the digital health blueprint
- Ensure monitoring and evaluation mechanisms are in place within the costed implementation plan to track how activities contribute to the targeted outcomes
Get Involved
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