Eleven Cochrane Reviews inform a World Health Organization Guideline on digital healthcare

A new WHO guideline on Digital Interventions for Health System Strengthening published on April 17th, 2019.  The main objective of this newguideline is toprovide evidence-informed recommendations to policy makers on key digital health interventions, to inform country investment plans. The guideline also describes potentially important implementation considerations for these interventions. And finally, the guideline identifies evidence gaps to inform member states and streamline future research investments and implementation planning. The guideline includes contributions from eleven Cochrane reviews.Nine of these reviews were commissioned by the WHO for the guideline. The other two reviews were already in progress but were finalised in collaboration with the WHO.   Two of the reviews are qualitative evidence syntheses and two reviews are mixed methods reviews.Simon Lewin and Claire Glenton, fromCochrane ’s Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) Group, have played central roles in the development of the guideline. As part of the technical team, they helped to scope the guideline, commission the reviews, prepare the evidence, and support the decision-making process. They have also been closely involved as editors or co-authors of most of the reviews.   In addition, Cochrane Response – the systematic review unit set up to increase Cochrane’s capacity to respond to the needs of commissioners – has worked on most of the reviews and has played a key part in re...
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