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ReviewPLOS global public health2023

Rethinking global digital health and AI-for-health innovation challenges.

Andrew Farlow, Alexander Hoffmann, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Deogratias Mzurikwao, Rob Beyer, Darlington Akogo, Eva Weicken, Tafadzwa Matika, MaryJane Ijeoma Nweje, Watu Wamae and 5 more

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Review in PLOS global public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. The Future Hospital in Global Health Systems: The Future Hospital Within the Healthcare System.The International journal of health planning and management · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Andrew FarlowOxford Martin School, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Alexander HoffmannDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.
Girmaw Abebe TadesseIBM Research-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2648-9102
Deogratias MzurikwaoVillgro Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3405-4771
Rob BeyerVillgro Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
Darlington AkogoMinoHealth AI Labs, Adenta Municipality, Ghana.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5652-1815
Eva WeickenFraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Tafadzwa MatikaClinton Health Access Initiative, Boston, MA, United States of America.
MaryJane Ijeoma NwejeInternational Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7768-1957
Watu WamaeNuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Sako ArtsFruitPunch AI, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Thomas WiegandFraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Colin BennettNuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Maha R FarhatDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.
Matthias I GröschelDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2509-3034

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Digital health technologies can help tackle challenges in global public health. Digital and AI-for-Health Challenges, controlled events whose goal is to generate solutions to a given problem in a defined period of time, are one way of catalysing innovation. This article proposes an expanded investment framework for Global Health AI and digitalhealth Innovation that goes beyond traditional factors such as return on investment. Instead, we propose non monetary and non GDP metrics, such as Disability Adjusted Life Years or achievement of universal health coverage. Furthermore, we suggest a venture building approach around global health, which includes filtering of participants to reduce opportunity cost, close integration of implementation scientists and an incubator for the long-term development of ideas resulting from the challenge. Finally, we emphasize the need to strengthen human capital across a range of areas in local innovation, implementation-science, and in health services.

Identifiers

PMID37115743
PMCPMC10146484

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