WHO SMART guidelines: optimising country-level use of guideline recommendations in the digital age

Mehl, Garrett; Tunçalp, Özge; Ratanaprayul, Natschja; Tamrat, Tigest; Barreix, María; Lowrance, David; Bartolomeos, Kidist; Say, Lale; Kostanjsek, Nenad; Jakob, Robert; Grove, John; Bernardo, Mariano; Swaminathan, Soumya

doi:10.1016/s2589-7500(21)00038-8

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“…A further push was given to the acceptance of such a framework in February 2021, when WHO launched its SMART Guidelines, that is, that data be standard‐based, machine‐readable, adaptive, requirements‐based, and testable 77 . The VODAN Africa architecture conforms with all of the WHO SMART guidelines.…”

Section: Turning Point 2: Federated Fair Principles Adopted In Africa Fair Communitiesmentioning

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“…The WHO proposition demonstrates that the identification of a similar problem frame, may lead to a slightly different design. The SMART approach launched by WHO 77 shows the political support at the global level for a new approach to create greater meaning in relation to digital data generated in health care. The linking of COVID‐19 data across borders and continents has generated interest among Asian countries in participating in the network, 78 pointing to the likely viability of the concept across continents.…”

Section: Turning Point 2: Federated Fair Principles Adopted In Africa Fair Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Design of a FAIR digital data health infrastructure in Africa for COVID‐19 reporting and research

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The limited volume of COVID‐19 data from Africa raises concerns for global genome research, which requires a diversity of genotypes for accurate disease prediction, including on the provenance of the new SARS‐CoV‐2 mutations. The Virus Outbreak Data Network (VODAN)‐Africa studied the possibility of increasing the production of clinical data, finding concerns about data ownership, and the limited use of health data for quality treatment at point of care. To address this, VODAN Africa developed an architecture to record clinical health data and research data collected on the incidence of COVID‐19, producing these as human‐ and machine‐readable data objects in a distributed architecture of locally governed, linked, human‐ and machine‐readable data. This architecture supports analytics at the point of care and—through data visiting, across facilities—for generic analytics. An algorithm was run across FAIR Data Points to visit the distributed data and produce aggregate findings. The FAIR data architecture is deployed in Uganda, Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Tunisia.

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Section: Turning Point 2: Federated Fair Principles Adopted In Africa Fair Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Turning Point 2: Federated Fair Principles Adopted In Africa Fair Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design of a FAIR digital data health infrastructure in Africa for COVID‐19 reporting and research

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“…It's no different today. Advances in technology are continuing to push back the boundaries of disease (Mehl, et al, 2021). Digital technologies enable us to test for diabetes, HIV and malaria on the spot, instead of sending samples off to a laboratory (Mahmood, et al, 2020).…”

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Implementations of digital technologies in COVID -19 pandemic and other health threats: multi nationals responses

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Gaire²,

Laya

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COVID-19 has created enormous challenges for health systems around the world. An immense range of digital health technologies has been considered as strategies. The aim of this article is to describe the implementation of digital technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic in prevention, diagnosis and treatment globally. Relevant articles published electronically in English using the following terms "COVID-19", "2019-nCov", "coronavirus", terminologies, "severe acute respiratory syndrome 2", SARS-CoV-2", "access to digital health, telemedicine and e-health, challenges and opportunities, in different data sources were researched. A total of 455 articles were found, and 46 published articles about prevention, treatment, and diagnosis approaches were selected. Digital technologies were useful in holistic control, care management and prevention, digital information, data collection, transfer and storage, frontline protection, risk reduction, analysis and adequate system of monitoring information during the pandemic situation, applying teleservice, consultations to specialists via online/offline, intelligent health system, which decreased the burden of patients to health professionals in institutions. In addition, it helped provide safe, rapidly and adequate patient data; and to avoid contamination for healthcare providers, the general population and patients. Still, the use of digital technologies in health is insufficient in many countries. It is essential to expand alternative ways of adapting digital technologies in health practices, but also to implement other studies on the use of digital health technologies beyond the focus on COVID-19.

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“…To resolve these challenges, the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and others are moving toward machine-readable guidelines better suited for the digital age [13] , [14] , [15] . WHO has outlined a vision to move toward a model that supports machine-readable guidelines and enables standards-based data exchange and computerized clinical decision support [16] , [17] . As one of the first steps in that journey, WHO created Digital Adaptation Kits (DAKs) to define system requirements, including minimum datasets and business processes, for specific areas, such as antenatal care [5] , [18] .…”

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Enhancing narrative clinical guidance with computer-readable artifacts: Authoring FHIR implementation guides based on WHO recommendations

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Ratanaprayul

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Journal of Biomedical Informatics

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WHO SMART guidelines: optimising country-level use of guideline recommendations in the digital age

Abstract: for sharing insights that informed the vision; and Brooke Partridge, Liz Grubin, Tamsyn Seimon, and Julie Pohlig for input on communicating the vision.

Cited by 47 publications

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Design of a FAIR digital data health infrastructure in Africa for COVID‐19 reporting and research

Design of a FAIR digital data health infrastructure in Africa for COVID‐19 reporting and research

Implementations of digital technologies in COVID -19 pandemic and other health threats: multi nationals responses

Enhancing narrative clinical guidance with computer-readable artifacts: Authoring FHIR implementation guides based on WHO recommendations

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