Health Data Collaborative Digital Health & Interoperability Global
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Who they are
Health Data Collaborative is an inclusive
partnership of international agencies, governments, philanthropies (goodwill to fellow members of the human
race; especially: active effort to promote human welfare), donors and
academics, with the common aim of improving health data.
The Health Data Collaborative is not a
formal partnership. They operate with a light, nimble governance structure,
based on a shared vision that by working together to strengthen country
information systems, they can contribute meaningfully to better decision-making
and better health.
Nor is the Health Data Collaborative a fund. It
is not directly responsible for financing health information systems, but for bringing countries, donors and other
partners together to make sure investments are made in the most efficient and
effective way.
What they
do
Goal:
Better Data. Better Health.
The Health Data Collaborative is a joint effort
by multiple global health partners to work alongside countries to improve
the availability, quality and use of data for local decision-making and tracking progress toward the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The SDGs are an ambitious set of targets adopted
by world leaders in 2015 that envision a world with zero poverty, shared
prosperity and security, and where no one is left behind.
The Health Data Collaborative exists to empower
countries to achieve the targets set out in the health-related goals,
especially but not exclusively those in Goal
3: ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all at all ages.
Achieving these goals will require accurate and timely data in order
to understand how much work needs to be done, to stay on track, and to keep
leaders accountable.
But around the world today, many countries don’t
count who is born, who dies, and other important details about people’s health.
Health data is often fragmented and piecemeal.
That makes it harder to make good decisions
about where to target resources to improve health and help people to live
longer, healthier and more productive lives.
The Health Data Collaborative will address those
challenges by getting global health partners to align their financial and technical resources around a common agenda
for measurement and accountability.
Time Line
2015- Summit on Measurement and Accountability
for Results in Health
2016 – 2017 Phase 1: Endorsement and Consensus
At least five countries engaged in Health Data
Collaborative, with completed assessments and investment plan for health data
systems and strengthening monitoring of health-related Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs).
Launch of package of tools and guidance to support
strengthening of country health data systems, with enhanced coordination of
global health data initiatives.
2018 – 2024
Phase 2: Investments in Plans for Country Health Data
Systems
By 2024, 60 low and middle-income countries and
supporting donors are using common investment plans to strengthen health data
systems.
Major donors lead efforts to transition from
program-specific investments in information and reporting to country reporting
national priorities and health-related SDGs using national health data systems.
2025 – 2030
Phase 3: Sustainable Measurement and Accountability
Countries to transition away from international
development assistance, with sufficient support for strengthening and
sustaining robust health data systems.
Where they work
Many low-income and lower-middle income
countries lack good quality data on a range of health indicators, and that is
where the Health Data Collaborative will focus its work.
Their aim is that by 2024, 60 low-income and
lower-middle income countries, and supporting donors, will be using common
investment plans to strengthen health data systems, and that by 2030 countries
will transition away from international assistance, with sufficient support for
strengthening and sustaining robust health data systems.
That said, the Health Data Collaborative is open
to all countries, to allow for countries of any income level to share
experiences and learn from each other.
How they work
Their role is to build upon existing efforts by
establishing a network of working groups that will address specific technical
issues and identify and fill technical gaps.
The working groups develop standards, indicators
and other tools that help countries to collect, analyses and use good health
data.
The working groups are time-limited groups of
technical experts from partners, countries, academia and civil society that are
brought together to work collectively on specific deliverables of the
Collaborative’s work plan.
Working Groups:
1.
Facility and community data:
-Routine health information systems
-Community data
-Facility surveys
-Measurement of Quality of care
-Logistics management and information
systems
2.
Disease surveillance
3.
Population data sources:
-Household surveys
-CRVS
4.
Digital health and interoperability
5. Health systems monitoring:
-Health workforce
-Health financing
6.
Data analytics and use
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