Call for Research Proposal for Smart Health Program

 Call for Research Proposal for Smart Health Program

Call Published date: 14 September, 2022
Deadline: 29 September, 2022

Background:

Smart Health in our context is defined as the subset of digital health that enables data-driven
approaches for decision-making for healthcare providers and individuals. In recent years, the
health sector in Nepal has made significant advancements on the policy front (formulation of
eHealth policy, digital health road maps), and adoption and implementation of various digital
health. However, data use and adoption of data-driven approaches in Nepal are almost nonexisting. Hence, the program aims to improve the situation through

• Development of Smart Health Platform to facilitate secure data exchange of health information enabling data-driven decision making.
• Capacity development to improve quality of care and facilitate health research through
  enabling data use.

The program aims to achieve these through developing and implementing the Smart Health
Platform, which will be based on local needs, adopting existing tools and as per international
standards.

Scope of work

The scope of work includes amongst others, the following tasks. It will be completed using a
combination of desk reviews, interviews with key stakeholders, field visits, and a national
workshop with digital health consortium members.

Work Package 1: Baseline / Context Analysis

• Carry out a mapping exercise of existing digital health tools and platforms being used in Nepal from the government sector, private sector, development partners and academia (including but not limited to EMRs/EHRs, mHealth platforms, health data analytics platform, bioinformatics tools)
• Review soundness of digital health platforms and tools (use of health data standards or terminologies, interoperability approaches etc.)
• Identification of challenges for existing tools and platforms (Most popular used )
• Identification of key stakeholders and formation of smart health consortium
• Identify readiness of stakeholders (specifically academia) to participate on health research
  
• networks

Work Package 2: Smart-Health Platform system implementation plan

• Formulate or adopt architecture development methodology
• Identify gaps in software, hardware and human resource requirements to develop, maintain and implement proposed systems.
• Identification of tools that can be utilized to create a Health Technology Stack utilizing SMART-ON-FHIR or a similar approach.
• Prepare system development plan and implementation monitoring plan.
  

Work Package 3: Monitoring of Development and Validation (procurement process)

• Procurement plan preparation
• Identify the appropriate company for the development
• Monitoring of the development
  

Work Package 4: Deployment. Testing and Validation

• Deployment, testing and validation plan preparation based on the area identified by Health sub-working group
• Training
• Testing (security acceptance test-SAT, Final acceptance test -FAT) and Validation of the
  system developes system developed

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