Digital Health Position Paper 2024-2029

USAID envisions a world in which all people have equitable access to safe, secure, and high-quality health services to promote health and well-being. To support reaching this goal in an era of increasing digitalization, the USAID Digital Health Position Paper (2024–2029) lays out a strategic vision for USAID investments and activities that advance global health using digital technologies.

Digital Health Position Paper (2024-2029) recommits to the four strategic priorities of the Digital Health Vision (2020-2024, read below), and introduces six promising practices for investments in partner country-based digital health technologies. 

PRIORITIES:

1. Assess and strengthen a country’s digital health enabling environment

2. Align digital health investments to national digital health strategies

3. Align digital health investments to national digital health architecture

4. Consider the use of global goods

Based on the experience of implementing the Digital Health Vision, the Digital Health Position Paper also identifies key learnings that are conveyed as practices. 

PRACTICES:

1. Commit to person-centered point-of-care digital systems  

2. Require data standards to enable integrated health service delivery at scale

3. Support country-led governance of health system digital transformation 

4. Strengthen data privacy and cybersecurity practices, and related country regulations

5. Deepen engagement with local partners, including the private sector

6. Invest in shared resources that advance the global digital health commons