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: QEWDjs: Quick/Quality Easy/Enterprise Development & Integration for Healthcare

Submitted by Caitlin Bowman (Digital Square) (Digital Square at PATH) on Mon, 03/09/2020 - 12:35 Last revised by Digital Square on Tue, 03/10/2020 - 05:38.
Primary Author: Tony Shannon
Application Status: 
Not Approved

Healthcare IT at present is simply not good enough and poor integration/interoperability is one of the key issues facing the sector, adversely
impacting clinicians at the frontline and impacting the care process.
QEWDjs is an open source web development and integration framework, grown out of work with the VistA Electronic Health Record
programme in the USA, supported by the non profit Ripple Foundation, England, that is promoting and supporting the adoption of an open

Notice B: Scaling Mobile Health Worker Video Training Program Across West Africa

Submitted by Caitlin Bowman (Digital Square) (Digital Square at PATH) on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 15:09 Last revised by Digital Square on Tue, 03/10/2020 - 05:39.
Primary Author: Okey Okuzu
Application Status: 
Out of Scope

Our proposal is to scale a video-based maternal and child health (MCH) training program for frontline health workers (HW) to the West African Sub-region and extend to each country, demonstrated benefits of interactive training for frontline HWs. These benefits include addressing the urgent need for improved knowledge, skills, motivation and retention of the health workforce, especially in remote settings.

Notice B: Scaling Telemedicine with the Virtual Doctors Project in Zambia and Malawi

Submitted by Caitlin Bowman (Digital Square) (Digital Square at PATH) on Mon, 03/09/2020 - 11:58 Last revised by Digital Square on Tue, 03/10/2020 - 05:39.
Primary Author: Tyrell Junius
Application Status: 
Out of Scope

For Universal Health Coverage to be achieved, proven digital health solutions must provide evidence of impact to maximize health outcomes.
Digital health solutions must benefit the most marginalized communities in order to bridge the gap for access to quality health services. For
Zambia, and much of sub-Saharan Africa, there is a major shortage of doctors. With over 16.5 million people, Zambia has less than 2,500
doctors - and whilst two thirds of doctors live in urban/metropolitan areas, over 60% of the population lives in rural Zambia. Rural health

Notice B: Scaling the capacity for BLIS ( Basic Laboratory Information System) Implementations across laboratories in Africa

Submitted by Caitlin Bowman (Digital Square) (Digital Square at PATH) on Mon, 03/09/2020 - 14:06 Last revised by Digital Square on Tue, 03/10/2020 - 05:38.
Primary Author: Emmanuel Kweyu
Application Status: 
In Scope - withdraw

Strathmore University requests support for the scaling of in-country technical and implementing capacity for the expanding open source BLIS
(Basic laboratory Information System) user community across selected laboratories in Africa.
As a background Laboratories in developing countries, have a high demand for test services but are under equipped, understaffed and
compounded by workflow inefficiencies. Strathmore University in collaboration with other implementing partners have developed an open

Notice B: Sehat Kahani - Expanding E-Health in Pakistan

Submitted by Caitlin Bowman (Digital Square) (Digital Square at PATH) on Mon, 03/09/2020 - 13:20 Last revised by Digital Square on Tue, 03/10/2020 - 05:38.
Primary Author: Iffat Zafar
Application Status: 
Out of Scope

1.The Problem
Pakistan, a population of 207 million and one of the fastest growing economies of the world still struggles to provide basic healthcare to 51% of
its total population. Around 40 million people live below the poverty line. Almost 30 % of the population lacks access to even primary health
care facilities. There is an acute deficiency of midwives, nurses, and female paramedical staff in rural area. The current density of nurses and

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