The digital transformation toolkit was created with the aim of offering managerial, technical, knowledge, communication, and academic resources to all those health professionals, decision-makers, and institutions dedicated to strengthening health information systems, with the vision of achieving universal access to health and universal health coverage in the Region through access to good quality data, strategic information, and digital health tools for decision-making and well-being.
This document explains how to better use this toolkit.
What is the Toolbox?
It is a set of resources and technical documents that provide guidance for the design and implementation of digital transformation in health.
Explore the different tool categories below to access the full set of resources.
Eight Guiding Principles of Digital Transformation of the Health Sector
The digitization of health services implies important cultural changes for both health personnel and the population in general. This guide presents eight guiding principles aimed at guiding the countries of the Region of the Americas in the processes of digital health transformation.
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Universal connectivity is one of the eight guiding principles promoted by PAHO for digital transformation in the health sector. This brief presents key concepts, recommended actions, and indicators to support its implementation and monitoring.
Digital public goods are one of the eight guiding principles promoted by PAHO for digital transformation in the health sector. This brief presents key concepts, recommended actions, and indicators to support progress in this area.
Inclusive digital health is one of the eight guiding principles promoted by PAHO for digital transformation in the health sector. This brief presents key concepts, recommended actions, and indicators to support progress toward more inclusive digital health.
Interoperability is one of the eight guiding principles promoted by PAHO for digital transformation in the health sector. This brief presents key concepts, recommended actions, and indicators to support progress in this area.
Human rights are one of the eight guiding principles promoted by PAHO for digital transformation in the health sector. This brief presents key concepts, recommended actions, and indicators to support progress in this area.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the eight guiding principles promoted by PAHO for digital transformation in the health sector. This brief presents key concepts, recommended actions, and indicators to support progress in the responsible adoption of AI.
Information security is one of the eight guiding principles promoted by PAHO for digital transformation in the health sector. This brief presents key concepts, recommended actions, and indicators to support progress in this area.
Public health architecture is one of the eight guiding principles promoted by PAHO for digital transformation in the health sector. This brief presents key concepts, recommended actions, and indicators to support progress in this area.
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Managerial Tools
This category provides support materials for the construction of technical groups, strategies, planning guides, characteristics and roles of human resources, as well as terms of reference to conduct activities related to the strengthening of information systems for health in the region of the Americas.
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Technical Tools
This category offers documents that facilitate an adequate implementation of policies, recommendations, data governance frameworks, monitoring and evaluation frameworks, analysis, and other rapid evaluation tools for the information systems for health of the countries.
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- Artificial Intelligence in Public Health
- Connectivity and Bandwidth: Key Areas for Improving Public Health
- Introduction to Semantic Interoperability
- Electronic Health Records and the Importance of How to Document
- Why Data Disaggregation is Key during a Pandemic
- COVID-19: Digital health facilitating telerehabilitation
- COVID-19 and the Role of Information Systems and Technologies at the First Level of Care
- Teleconsultations during a Pandemic
- Understanding the Infodemic and Misinformation in the Fight against COVID-19
- Actions to facilitate telecare
- Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Interoperability: Understanding Two Key Concepts for a Better Public Health Response
- The Potential of Frequently Used Information Technologies during the Pandemic
- COVID-19 and the Importance of Strengthening Information Systems
- Webinar Series: Share-Listen-Act, COVID-19: The Potential of Digital Health and Information Systems for Health (IS4H) in the Fight against the Pandemic
- Digital Health: A Strategy to Maintain Health Care for People Living with Noncommunicable Diseases during COVID-19
- 30 Critical Concepts for Fighting COVID-19 in the Age of Digital Interdependence
- Change Management
- Data Disaggregation
- COVID-19 Information Systems and Digital Health: After-Action Review of the First 100 Days in Quarantine
- Why Predictive Modeling is Critical in the Fight against COVID-19
- Information Architecture
- Technological Readiness
- Data Governance in Public Health
- Interoperability in Public Health
- From the Evolution of Information Systems for Health to the Digital Transformation of the Health Sector. IS4H Conference Report
- Eight Guiding Principles of Digital Transformation of the Health Sector. A Call to Pan American Action
- Information Systems for Health: Lessons Learned and After-action Review of the Implementation Process in the Caribbean, 2016–2019
Communication Tools
The category of communication tools within the digital transformation toolkit seeks to offer information related to health information systems in a practical, concise, dynamic, visual, and/or auditory way, as an option for people who seek to maintain themselves updated.
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Acknowledgements
The Pan American Health Organization would like to thank the financial and technical support of:
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) 
Government of Canada 
Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID)