Digital Health Solutions and State of Interoperability: Landscape Analysis of Sierra Leone.
Emeka ChukwuLalit GargEdward FodayAbdul KonomanyiRoyston WrightFrancis SmartPublished in: JMIR formative research (2022)
Many digital health solutions are currently used at health facilities in Sierra Leone. The government can leverage current investment in HIS from surveillance and reporting for using big data and AI for care. The vision of using big data for health care is achievable if stakeholders prioritize individualized and longitudinal patient data exchange using agreed use cases from national strategies. This study has shown evidence of distribution, types, and scale of digital health solutions in health facilities and opportunities for leveraging big data to fill critical gaps necessary to achieve the national digital health vision.