Navigator for Digital Health Capability Models

The Navigator for Digital Health Capability Models (also called the 'Navigator') enables health systems planners, implementers, evaluators, and funders to understand the value of using maturity model-based tools, identify and use the most appropriate tool(s), and leverage past maturity model-based assessments to improve digital heath capabilities at the national and sub-national levels. The Navigator includes a user guide, an Excel workbook, a slide deck, and an appendix. The Navigator was created using six maturity model based tools:

• Early Stage Digital Health Investment Tool (EDIT)
• Global Digital Health Index (GDHI)
• Health Information System Interoperability Maturity Model (IMM) Toolkit
• Information Systems for Health (IS4H) Toolkit
• Survey, Count, Optimize, Review, Enable (SCORE) Essential Interventions
• Health Information System Stages of Continuous Improvement (SOCI)

The Navigator was developed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Digital Square, with funding and technical advisory support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). An advisory team composed of representatives from USAID, the World Health Organization, World Bank, the United Nations Children’s Fund, John Snow, Inc., and the Kati Collective provided input and suggestions. Members of the Digital Health and Interoperability Working Group’s Small Working Group on maturity models provided valuable input and feedback on the various iterations of the Navigator and contributed to the Navigator’s testing.