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1 Introduction
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... , are ambitious. Setting an agenda for the next 15 years, targets have been established to drastically reduce maternal mortality and premature mortality from noncommunicable diseases; end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases; achieve universal health coverage; and ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services, among others.
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... The three main areas of digital health include the delivery of health information to health professionals and health consumers through the Internet and telecommunications; using ICTs to improve public health services, such as through education and training of health workers; and using health information systems to capture, store, manage, or transmit information on patient health or health facility activities. Applications of digital health are being used to reduce inefficiencies, improve access, reduce costs, increase quality, and personalize care (FDA, 2017)
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... As several speakers emphasized throughout the workshop, developing digital health-focused PPPs based on government- and community-identified priorities can help connect the dots among the many stakeholders within the digital health landscape, foster coordination and integration, engage both public and private sector stakeholders in tackling existing challenges, and increase the potential for impact. To explore how the use of technology can facilitate progress toward globally recognized health priorities, including the SDGs, the Forum on Public–Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety (PPP Forum)
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... . Focusing on opportunities for technologies -- including products, systems, and services -- to advance and accelerate global health priorities, the workshop will feature invited presentations and discussions to examine the following: •  urrent efforts to increase investments in, development of, and access to C global health technologies and technology-based interventions; •  ecision making for when to use or develop technologies and what are D appropriate technologies, including engaging governments and commu nities in prioritizing, designing, and evaluating global health technologies and technology-based interventions; •  earning from other sectors to better understand how to incentivize higher L levels of participation for development and scaling of global health tech nologies and technology-based interventions, including how challenges have been managed; •  pproaching cost-effectiveness assessments for global health technolo A gies and technology-based interventions; •  ddressing privacy, ethics, and security concerns with data collection and A data sharing; •  nsuring technologies are accessible to those who need them the most, E meaning "the last mile" populations; and •  ow policy and regulatory frameworks can function as enablers in the H development and deployment of technologies.
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... The study also found that the eight countries applied one of three different governance mechanisms for digital health: a health ministry mechanism, a government-wide digital agency mechanism, or a dedicated digital health agency mechanism. Concluding her remarks, Aerts posed four questions for the workshop participants to consider over the course of the day: 1.


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