Classification Of Digital Interventions Services And Applications In Health

Classification of digital interventions, services and applications in health

Digital adaptation kit for postnatal care

Digital Adaptation Kits (DAKs) are part of WHO’s SMART guidelines initiative. This aims to ensure that the content of WHO’s evidence-based guidelines is accurately reflected in the digital systems being used at country level. The DAKs provide software-neutral, operational, and structured documentation based on WHO recommendations related to clinical care, health systems and use of data, to systematically and transparently inform the design of digital systems. Standard components of each DAK include: (1) linked health interventions and recommendations; (2) generic personas; (3) user scenarios; (4) generic business processes and workflows; (5) core data elements mapped to standard terminology codes (e.g. the international classification of diseases); (6) decision support; (7) programme indicators; and (8) functional and non-functional requirements. This DAK focuses on PNC, and aims to provide a common language across various audiences – maternal, newborn/infant and child health and other programme managers, software developers and implementers of digital systems – to ensure a common understanding of the appropriate health information content within a defined health programme area, as a mechanism to catalyse the effective use of these digital systems.

WHO Science Council meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 30-31 January 2024

This is a visual summary of the meeting of the WHO Science Council which took place on 30 and 31 January 2024.