Optimising digital health investment
Digital health funding is a catalytic investment to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage. However, current investments are falling short to deliver the long-term and sustainable changes needed to build effective, equitable, stronger, and more resilient health systems and improved health access and outcomes. Transform Health is making the case for more investment and leading efforts to ensure resources are directed strategically, aligned with national strategies, coordinated across stakeholders, and tracked in ways that enable transparency, accountability and learning.
The digital health funding landscape
CHALLENGES
Gaps in domestic and external funding for digital health, particularly for low and lower-middle income countries
Poor coordination, alignment and prioritisation of investment
Limited funding transparency due to the absence of standardised definitions or tracking of investment
NEEDED ACTION
Increased, sustainable domestic and external investment
Improved coordination to reduce fragmentation and duplication
Stronger alignment with national priorities and digital transformation strategies
Better prioritisation of equitable, sustainable digital health transformation
More routine, standardised tracking for greater transparency
Increase domestic and external investment, moving beyond short term, fragmented investments, towards more transformative, sustainable, long-term financing.
Coordinate investment to ensure funding is not fragmented or duplicative.
Align investment with national priorities and digital transformation strategies.
Prioritise investment towards an equitable, inclusive, and sustainable digital health transformation, and to meet the needs of end users and under-served populations.
Improve transparency and tracking of investment, routinely and in a standard way, including using the digital health investment taxonomy.
What we're doing
Convening and making the case for investment
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Furthering analysis and strengthening the case for investment, including through our report, ‘Closing the digital divide: More and better funding for the digital transformation of health’, which sets out a conceptual framework to guide investment and action to support equitable, inclusive, and sustainable digital health transformation.
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Advocating for donors to better track and report on their funding investments by engaging in global, regional and national meetings and processes.
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Advocating with and supporting national and sub-national governments to increase and better prioritise resources for digital health.
Providing technical support for improved tracking of digital health investment in countries
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Engaging in budget processes and supporting the development of costed Digital Health Transformation Roadmaps.
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Supporting better tracking of investment through the uptake and integration of the digital health investment taxonomy by different funders in the digital health ecosystem and its integration into existing tracking and reporting mechanisms.
Gallery
Tools developed to guide our work
Digital health and AI investment classification framework
Digital Health Investment Checklist
Publications and resources
Closing the Digital Divide
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