Tanzania’s new digital health road map offers a pioneering example of “putting national government in the driver’s seat” and of systems based approaches to e-health, experts say.
Tanzanian officials unveiled the investment road map, which outlines a range of digital health interventions for using data to improve health services and outcomes, during the Global Digital Health Forum 2016, held in Virginia. The plan is one component of an 18-month project implemented by international NGO PATH with $2 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Digital health is an umbrella term which refers to innovations that use smart phones, social networks and internet applications to improve health care systems in ways ranging from improving access to services for people living in remote areas to tracking medicine stocks to avoid shortages.
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Sophie Edwards
Sophie Edwards is a Devex Contributing Reporter covering global education, water and sanitation, and innovative financing, along with other topics. She has previously worked for NGOs, and the World Bank, and spent a number of years as a journalist for a regional newspaper in the U.K. She has a master's degree from the Institute of Development Studies and a bachelor's from Cambridge University.
