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Transforming Health Care in Lesotho: Using Digital Health to Overcome Health System Challenges

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-21T16:20:40Z
dc.date.available2025-01-21T16:20:40Z
dc.date.issued2025-01-21
dc.description.abstractHealthcare access and service delivery quality have been a persistent challenge in Lesotho. The COVID-19 pandemic has added new challenges and opportunities for change. Among those changes is the need to include digital health solutions and think about how new digital health interventions can enhance efficiency and transform the way primary healthcare is being provided or delivered in the country. This report, prepared by the World Bank for Lesotho’s Ministry of Health, documents the outcome of an assessment of Lesotho’s digital health system using a unique digital health assessment toolkit produced by the World Bank. The agreed objectives of the assessment were to 1) clarify the current digital health landscape in Lesotho, 2) develop a maturity score for Lesotho’s digital health system, 3) define the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) facing digital health in Lesotho and 4) Using the results of the assessment, provide recommendations and a phased roadmap of action to define the key strategic actions to move Lesotho’s digital health ecosystem to the next phase of its evolution. Based on the assessment results, 16 strategic recommendations have been made on foundational, functional, and frontier investments to advance the digital health agenda and improve service delivery. The prioritization of the actions has been based on this set of criteria: the most urgent to support PHC transformation, the incomplete actions from the current draft of the e-Health Strategy (2019-2023), and those with the most important long-term impact. This report is a call to action to upgrade the current eHealth strategy to a comprehensive digital health strategy with priority interventions, a costed implementation plan, and provisions for future impact assessment geared toward delivering better health in a digital world.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099011825012023477/P1750751b8346f038189801323be4451afd
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/42702
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/42702
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/igo
dc.subjectGOOD HEALTH
dc.subjectCOVID-19 PANDEMIC
dc.subjectDIGITAL HEALTH
dc.subjectDECENT WORK
dc.subjectINFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
dc.titleTransforming Health Care in Lesothoen
dc.title.subtitleUsing Digital Health to Overcome Health System Challengesen
dc.typeReport
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.date.disclosure2025-01-21
okr.date.lastmodified2025-01-20T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Other Health Study
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099011825012023477/P1750751b8346f038189801323be4451afd
okr.guid099011825012023477
okr.identifier.docmidP175075-b8346f7c-d1c4-4b38-8980-323be4451afd
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34447291
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34447291
okr.identifier.report196485
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okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099011825012023477/pdf/P1750751b8346f038189801323be4451afd.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeAfrica Eastern and Southern (AFE)
okr.region.countryLesotho
okr.sectorFY17 - Health
okr.themeHealth Systems and Policies,Human Development and Gender,ICT,Nutrition,ICT Solutions,Reproductive and Maternal Health,Private Sector Development,Health Service Delivery,Child Health,Adolescent Health,Nutrition and Food Security
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Communicable Diseases
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Health Service Management and Delivery
okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::ICT Applications
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.unitPeople - HNP Global Engagement (HHNGE)
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