ArticleOxford open digital health2024
Building the evidence base for the economic value of digital health interventions: examples of methods and metrics and opportunities for future directions.
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- Optimizing Budget Allocation for Digital Health Investments Using Metaheuristic Algorithms: A Cost-Impact Analysis for Public Health Systems.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Staged, life-cycle approach to evidence generation for digital health interventions in low- and middle-income countries.BMJ digital health & AI · 2026Review
- Cost-effectiveness of a behavioral insights-informed digital campaign to increase HPV vaccination in Bangladesh.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Article
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Abstract
Quantifying the costs, impact and cost-effectiveness of digital health interventions (DHIs) presents both technical and logistical challenges, largely due to unclear causal pathways to health impact and the tendency of DHIs to be implemented as just one component of an intervention. Few publications provide peer-reviewed estimates of these metrics for DHIs, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Yet decision-makers need this evidence to make informed decisions and investments about DHIs. The special collection outlined here offers seven practical and diverse examples of how digital health implementers have assessed the costs and impacts of DHIs in LMICs. These examples can serve as building blocks to inform and guide the development of critically needed methodological approaches for measuring the cost, impact and value of DHIs in a standardized way. RESUMEN: Cuantificar los costos, el efecto y la efectividad de costos de las intervenciones digitales de salud (DHI, por sus siglas en inglés) representa desafíos tanto técnicos como logísticos, en gran medida debido a la falta de claridad respecto a las secuencias causales para el efecto sobre la salud y la tendencia de las DHI para implementarse como solo un componente de una intervención. Pocas publicaciones ofrecen estimados con revisión por pares de estas métricas para las DHI, especialmente en países de ingresos bajos y medios (LMIC, por sus siglas en inglés). Pero las personas encargadas de tomar decisiones necesitan esta evidencia para tomar decisiones informadas y hacer inversiones relacionadas con las DHI. La colección especial aquí descrita ofrece siete ejemplos prácticos y diversos sobre cómo los ejecutores de salud digital han evaluado los costos y los efectos de las DHI en LMIC. Estos ejemplos pueden usarse como bloques de construcción para informar y guiar el desarrollo de enfoques metodológicos altamente necesarios para medir el costo, el efecto y el valor de las DHI de manera estandarizada. RESUMO: Quantificar os custos, o impacto e a relação custo-eficácia das intervenções de saúde digitais (ISD) apresenta desafios técnicos e logísticos, em grande parte devido a vias causais pouco claras para o impacto na saúde e à tendência das ISD para serem implementadas como apenas um componente de uma intervenção. Poucas publicações fornecem estimativas revistas por pares destas métricas para as IDS, especialmente nos países de baixo e médio rendimento (PBMR). No entanto, os decisores precisam destas provas para tomar decisões e investimentos informados sobre as ISD. A coleção especial aqui delineada oferece sete exemplos práticos e diversificados de como os implementadores de saúde digital avaliaram os custos e os impactos das ISD nos PBMR. Estes exemplos podem servir como blocos de construção para informar e orientar o desenvolvimento de abordagens metodológicas extremamente necessárias para medir o custo, o impacto e o valor das IDS de forma padronizada. RÉSUMÉ: La quantification des coûts, de l'impact et de la rentabilité des interventions de santé numérique (ISN) présente des défis à la fois techniques et logistiques, en grande partie en raison du manque de clarté sur les causes contribuant aux impacts sur la santé et de la tendance des ISN à être mises en œuvre comme un simple composant d'une intervention. Peu de publications fournissent des estimations évaluées par des pairs de ces mesures pour les ISN, en particulier dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire (PRFI). Pourtant, les décideurs ont besoin de ces preuves pour prendre des décisions éclairées et réaliser des investissements en matière d'ISN. La collection spéciale présentée ici offre sept exemples pratiques et divers de la manière dont les responsables de la mise en œuvre de la santé numérique ont évalué les coûts et les impacts des ISN dans les PRFI. Ces exemples peuvent servir de base pour informer et guider le développement d'approches méthodologiques indispensables pour mesurer le coût, l'impact et la valeur des ISN de manière standardisée.
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