The complexity of scaling up an mHealth intervention: the case of SMS for Life in Tanzania from a health systems integration perspective.
Carmen Sant FruchtmanSelemani MbuyitaMary Mwanyika-SandoMarcel BraunDon de SavignyDaniel Cobos MuñozPublished in: BMC health services research (2021)
This study shows the importance of engaging appropriate stakeholders from the outset, understanding and designing system-responsive interventions appropriately when scaling up and ensuring value to a broad range of health system actors. These shortcomings are common among digital health solutions and need to be better addressed in future implementations.