Notice B

Promoting the collaborative development of proposals for investments in digital health global goods

Digital Square supports investments in digital health global goods, which are tools that are adaptable to different countries and contexts. Mature digital health global good software is software that is (usually) Free and Open Source (FOSS), is supported by a strong community, has a clear governance structure, is funded by multiple sources, has been deployed at significant scale, is used across multiple countries, has demonstrated effectiveness, is designed to be interoperable, and is an emergent standard application.

We are using an open proposal process. Your concept notes and proposals will be publicly posted, giving you and other submitters the opportunity to find collaborators and provide and receive feedback from your peers.

Proposals (62 total)

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Notice B: SORMAS-MI: Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) - Maturity Improvement through Community Engagement, Internationalization and Applicability Enhancement.

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 03/09/2020 - 15:42 Last revised by Digital Square on Tue, 03/10/2020 - 05:38.
Primary Author: Gérard Krause
Application Status: 
Approved – Contingent on Funding

SORMAS (Surveillance and Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System) is an open source mobile and web
application to detect outbreaks, manage response measures, validate cases, coordinate laboratory confirmation and
perform follow-up of contact persons. SORMAS is fully integrated in the public health governance structures and contains 11
user-specific interfaces and disease specific management algorithms for 10 high priority epidemic prone diseases. SORMAS

Notice B: Spatial Decision Support Tool for Indoor Residual Spraying Implementation (mSpray)

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 03/09/2020 - 14:41 Last revised by Digital Square on Tue, 03/10/2020 - 05:37.
Primary Author: Laurie Markle
Application Status: 
Approved – Contingent on Funding

Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is a critical but expensive intervention to reduce malaria burden, and thus must be deployed and monitored
judiciously. While IRS has been a malaria prevention practice for many years, there are some shortcomings. IRS coverage is measured as a
percentage; the number of houses sprayed relative to the number of houses found. However, this assumes that 100% of the houses in a
particular area are found, and of these, at least 85% are sprayed in order to achieve a protective effect (WHO, 2013). However, Akros data

Notice B: Strengthening and Expanding HEARTH open source tool and community

Submitted by Caitlin Bowman (Digital Square) (Digital Square at PATH) on Mon, 03/09/2020 - 13:04 Last revised by Digital Square on Tue, 03/10/2020 - 05:38.
Primary Author: Christopher Seebregts
Application Status: 
Approved – Contingent on Funding

The use of Health Information Exchanges (HIE) is growing in low resource settings as Ministries and Departments of Health move towards
connected health systems that provide better care to beneficiaries. The improvements in health provider access to complete clinical data, patient
linking across disparate systems and standardised terminology and registries enable not only better patient care but also more efficient
operational reporting and cost reduction. One of the key challenges to data exchange is the complexity of the technology required to set up and

Notice B: Strengthening and Expanding the Open Health Information Mediator (OpenHIM)

Submitted by Caitlin Bowman (Digital Square) (Digital Square at PATH) on Mon, 03/09/2020 - 13:02 Last revised by Digital Square on Tue, 03/10/2020 - 05:38.
Primary Author: Christopher Seebregts
Application Status: 
Approved - partially funded

The introduction of electronic health information systems into health services in most developing countries has been driven by donors looking
to capture data about specific health issues (i.e. HIV/AIDS and TB) for research or impact monitoring and evaluation purposes. Data
requirements have been illness specific and the electronic systems stand alone. The result has been the growing problem of siloed health
information limited by the nature of the data collected and stored within the system as well as project specific access rights. This has led to

Notice B: Strengthening Metadata Management for Governments and Formalizing OCL Governance

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 03/09/2020 - 15:15 Last revised by Digital Square on Tue, 03/10/2020 - 05:38.
Primary Author: Jonathan Payne
Application Status: 
Approved – Contingent on Funding

This proposal is being submitted on behalf of the Open Concept Lab community, a consortium of partners being represented, for this proposal,
by Apelon, Cooper/Smith , OpenMRS, and Regenstrief Institute. The Open Concept Lab (OCL) is an existing “global good” consisting of an
open-source terminology management system (distributed under MPLv2 with a healthcare disclaimer) to help collaboratively manage, publish
and use metadata in the cloud alongside the global community. Imagine GitHub for indicators, terminology, and metadata-- a one-stop shop to

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