ArticleAdvanced genetics (Hoboken, N.J.)2021
Design of a FAIR digital data health infrastructure in Africa for COVID-19 reporting and research.
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- Challenges and Opportunities for Data Sharing Related to Artificial Intelligence Tools in Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Systematic Review and Case Study From Thailand.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Adoption, barriers and opportunities of interoperability and eHealth standards in Africa: a scoping review.BMJ health & care informatics · 2026Article
- Connecting biospecimens and data: a scoping review-informed conceptual framework for digital infrastructure in biobanking and genomic research in low- and middle-income countries.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Comparative Effectiveness of DHIS2 and FAIR Data Approaches for Privacy-Preserving Health Data Analytics in Uganda: A Systematic Review.ClinicoEconomics and outcomes research : CEOR · 2025Review
- Federated systems for automated infection surveillance: a perspective.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2024Review
- Health data justice: building new norms for health data governance.NPJ digital medicine · 2023Review
- Modeling community standards for metadata as templates makes data FAIR.Scientific data · 2022Article
- Conceptualization and practices in digital health: voices from Africa.African health sciences · 2022Article
- Design of a FAIR digital data health infrastructure in Africa for COVID-19 reporting and research.Advanced genetics (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2021Article
- A network database for the human biobank.Advanced genetics (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2021Article
- Federated Networks for Distributed Analysis of Health Data.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
The limited volume of COVID-19 data from Africa raises concerns for global genome research, which requires a diversity of genotypes for accurate disease prediction, including on the provenance of the new SARS-CoV-2 mutations. The Virus Outbreak Data Network (VODAN)-Africa studied the possibility of increasing the production of clinical data, finding concerns about data ownership, and the limited use of health data for quality treatment at point of care. To address this, VODAN Africa developed an architecture to record clinical health data and research data collected on the incidence of COVID-19, producing these as human- and machine-readable data objects in a distributed architecture of locally governed, linked, human- and machine-readable data. This architecture supports analytics at the point of care and-through data visiting, across facilities-for generic analytics. An algorithm was run across FAIR Data Points to visit the distributed data and produce aggregate findings. The FAIR data architecture is deployed in Uganda, Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Tunisia.
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