Even in crisis or emergency situations, such as the one we are experiencing for Covid-19, the habit of rejecting everything that is not 100% effective is not lost, emphasizing its limits and possible problems.
Design
WHO publishes a guide on how to integrate digital interventions into health programmes
The guide complements the WHO guideline with recommendations on digital interventions for health system strengthening.
Health information systems must be “medicine by design”
In the tender specifications of health information systems, the medical component is often of little relevance. The focus is on technological, administrative and organizational aspects.
Interoperability by-design in application design
I note with great amazement that, with few exceptions, we continue to design healthcare applications as “islands in their own right”, but then worry, once the development is over, how to integrate them with other systems.