Country Leadership, Coordination and Management
One of the main challenges identified in the analysis was the lack of technical capacity and resources (human and financial) within the ministry of health to lead and coordinate the digital health ecosystem and drive implementation of the national digital health strategy (where one exists). This is leading to fragmentation, and challenges to scale models and integrate them into government systems in a sustainable manner.
Governments set up effective coordination structures with the right technical capacity, the right level of authority to manage digital health across government departments and to coordinate multistakeholder platforms, to ensure the adoption of digital solutions at scale and in a sustainable manner to implement the national digital health strategy (where one exists).