Ensuring more and better funding for digital health transformation
Building political support for increased and better coordinated investment
Transform Health continues to play a leading role advocating for more funding and better resource allocation for digital health. Building on the successful launch of the report Closing the digital divide: More and better funding for the digital transformation of health in 2022, we have been taking forward the recommendations and engaging stakeholders during key events and moments to drive political action on this agenda.
Key moments and events
Through these high level events, Transform Health has been building political support for increasing funding for digital health and encouraging governments to adopt the six recommendations laid out in the report Closing the Digital Divide.
Providing governments and others with resources to make better investment decisions
Supporting stakeholders prioritise effective and accountable digital health investment
Transform Health and partners are supporting efforts and driving action towards more transparent, effective and accountable digital health investment, including through the development of a Digital Health Investment Checklist. The Checklist sets out key criteria to guide strategic choices for effective digital health investment that supports the equitable, inclusive, sustainable digital transformation of health systems, to achieve UHC. The criteria are framed around six strategic choices, together with priority investment areas. Access the checklist and find out about the strategic consideration and priority investment areas.
The Checklist was developed through an inclusive process, that involved consultations and input from Transform Health’s digital health investment working group; an online survey; input from Transform Health’s national coalitions; a youth consultation; as well as input received during a workshop co-hosted with YET4H, PATH, health.enabled and held during the World Health Assembly.
Transform Health has been working with partners to drive action towards improved tracking of domestic and donor digital health investments, using existing mechanisms such as National Health Accounts, the OECD-DAC reporting system, and integrated into routine UHC monitoring.
We believe that by standardising the tracking and reporting of digital health investments, countries can better identify where funding is being channelled and where it is needed. It also allows civil society and others to advocate for the necessary resources to be effectively and equitably allocated, and to advocate for improved coordination and prioritisation of investments that deliver long-term health impact.
It also allows civil society and others to advocate for the necessary resources to be effectively and equitably allocated, and to advocate for improved coordination and prioritisation of investments that deliver long-term health impact.