DH-ASK — Digital Health Architecture, Standards and Knowledge — is a set of national digital health products developed to standardise digitally-enabled healthcare and services across Uganda's health system, as called for in Uganda's Digital Health Policy and Strategy.
Standardising digital health
Without shared standards and a common architecture, digital health systems struggle to work together.
The challenge
Uganda has adopted many digital health interventions, but fragmentation limits how well they exchange information.
- Many digital health tools, no shared standards
- Systems struggle to exchange information
- Duplication raises cost and slows decisions
The products
DH-ASK delivers a connected set of national frameworks and guidelines.
- Digital Health Standards
- Enterprise Architecture Framework
- Workforce Capacity Building Framework
- Monitoring & Evaluation Framework
DH-ASK provides a reference framework for an integrated, scalable and interoperable digital health ecosystem.
The accompanying Health Information Exchange and Interoperability Guidelines explain how the architecture and standards are applied to digital health systems, helping implementers build services that securely exchange information and reduce duplication and cost across the health sector.
Collaborators
Uganda Ministry of Health; Makerere University.