Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorNgongoni, Chipo Nancy
dc.contributor.authorWasswa, William
dc.contributor.authorChibi, Moredreck
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-16T09:23:04Z
dc.date.available2024-05-16T09:23:04Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationNgongoni, C. N., Wasswa, W., & Chibi, M. (2023). Legacy of COVID-19 Innovations: Strengthening African Primary Health Care through Pandemic Innovations. Sustainability, 15(15), 12073.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.must.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/3666
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic led to a global surge of health care innovations aimed at curbing the pandemic. Some of the innovations were newly developed whereas others were modifications of existing technologies to suit the COVID-19 response. With the world achieving some level of normalcy, the question is what will become of these innovations. This study reviewed and analysed 1003 innovations that were utilised for the COVID-19 response to assess if they are still being utilised to strengthen health systems. The paper goes on to identify, profile and showcase 48 innovations and trace their evolution to support and strengthen Primary Health Care. Through this analysis and narration, four strategic pillars of collaboration, governance, innovation design and strategy emerge as factors that help explain the successful integration of these innovations in Primary Health Care. Under these pillars emerged nine key aspects of strategic inter-industry collaborations, standardisation and supportive policies, minimalistic and modular designs, off-grid capabilities, interoperability, data infrastructure, interoperability, data analytics including security and privacy, and the design of technology around ecosystems and platforms. The overall aim of this study is to inform the dynamics around the improvement of scaling and increase the sustainability of innovations across the African region to strengthen health systems and promote innovation.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipPandemicTech, LLC (Austin, TX, USA).en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSustainabilityen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19 technologiesen_US
dc.subjectPrimary health careen_US
dc.subjectInnovationen_US
dc.subjectHealth innovation ecosystemsen_US
dc.titleLegacy of COVID-19 Innovations: Strengthening African Primary Health Care through Pandemic Innovationsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

  • Research Articles [456]
    These are different research articles about different Scholars

Show simple item record