About Software for Health
Our primary focus is in the support of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We work to offer tools and solutions that are of a high quality and are fully supported while being delivered at a low cost with maximum sustainability.
We strongly believe in the open-source software model, it helps to put empowerment and sustainability at the heart of the software solutions we advocate and design. By helping to nurture and build talent, the Foundation is focused on self-sufficiency through the development of in-country capability.
The Software for Health Foundation has been established to:
Establish and maintain ‘global goods’ in digital health software
Offer software on an ‘open source’ or ‘free to use’ basis
Offer training and support to promote ‘in-country’ capability
Drive and support innovations in digital healthcare
Build solutions that can be operated without dependence on external third-parties
Provide unity and cohesion to disparate software systems and platforms
Empower and uphold the rights of the individual through management and control of medical data
Promote effective dialogue and collaboration between for-profit and not-for-profit operators
Meet the key members of the organisation
James Fry - CEO
As the Managing Director of Blue Frontier, James has overseen the development of a number of global health projects, designed around medical device connectivity.
Since 2005 he has balanced commercial development work, both within and outside of the medical world, with donor funded healthcare projects in LMICs, and has guided the company toward becoming a global leader in device connectivity. In establishing the Software for Health Foundation, James is leveraging this wealth of knowledge and experience to provide a platform to promote and support sustainable free technology for health.
Jack Regnart - CTO
For over 10 years Jack has worked on and managed the development of numerous connected systems including 'software as a service' (SaaS) offerings, security tracking, genetic research and health information systems.
During his time with the Software for Health Foundation, Jack has focused primarily on the global connected & digital health space. Jack brings knowledge of health care and how technological advancements can improve the management of health systems. Jack is the project lead and architect of the Open Interop platform helping to innovate the transmission and translation of health data.
Mauro Tobin - COO
Mauro is a digital health consultant specialising in strategy, service/solution design, implementation, and sustainability of digital tools and connected diagnostics. Mauro has worked in both the private sector and donor funded public health, working for NGOs alongside health care providers in LMICs, as well as for commercial diagnostic companies.
The experience of implementing digital platforms and tools in a number of African countries led Mauro to spearhead the creation of the AoS Health Initiative, and to focus particularly on addressing issues relating to the growing threat from antimicrobial resistance.
Rhian Taylor - PMO
AoS Health Initiative
About the AoS Health Initiative
AoS Health is a joint initiative founded by eSHIFT Partner Network, Blue Frontier IT Ltd and The Software for Health Foundation. Our aim is to engineer, integrate, and deliver digital health services and technologies for sustained impact and improved health outcomes.
The goals of the AoS initiative are as follows:
Share knowledge and provide training to support and promote in-country capability
Offer software on an ‘open source’ or ‘free to use’ basis
Build solutions that can be operated without dependence on external third-parties
Drive and support innovations in digital healthcare health systems
Provide unity and cohesion to disparate software systems and platforms
Empower and uphold the rights of the individual
Promote effective dialogue and collaboration between for-profit and not-for-profit operators
Establish and maintain affordable, accessible and cost-effective global goods to serve the infrastructure and digital health needs of LMICs
Meet the members of AoS Health
Based in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Blue Frontier offer a full range of technical, web, software, and digital marketing services for business. Blue Frontier are proud to be a part of the AoS initiative and to contribute our experience and skills, especially in connecting diagnostic instruments and developing health data management systems, for world leading device manufacturers. We are committed to using our expertise in innovation and our ISO standard software development capabilities to strengthen the AoS opensource tool kit and help innovate new digital tools within the AoS reference architecture.
The eSHIFT Partner Network is a Swiss not-for-profit leader in digital health architecture and information systems implementation founded in 2012. eSHIFT is proud to contribute our public health knowledge, health information system and management expertise, and on-the-ground implementation experience to the AoS Health Initiative. We believe strongly that by removing the traditional barriers to implementation we can develop sustainable, equitable and resilient health systems that empower our country partners to leverage ongoing innovation in digital health and achieve better health outcomes. The AoS Health Initiative brings us one step closer to achieving this vision.
Software for Health Foundation
Blue Frontier IT Ltd.
eSHIFT Partner Network
AoS Health Philosophy
As part of this initiative, we are applying the following principals to major disease verticals that are of global concern. We have established a central catalogue of vertical solutions, components and services (which include the software products, services and infrastructure).
The health verticals include:
AMR Vertical
TB Vertical
Services not products
AoS is addressing the technology gap through continued development of its reusable standardised verticals applications and supporting digital infrastructure.
AoS addresses the data quality issue through systematic loading of historical data, continuous development of data quality and cleansing tools. For AMR our ambition is to establish a network of national AMR surveillance nodes capable of AMR data federation. AoS places interoperability at the heart of our designs in order to work with a country's existing technology and to allow access to the diverse range of data sources required, bringing standardisation to the resultant dataset.
Partnerships not pilots
To address sustainability AoS seeks to establish longer term partnerships with all our benefactors and build capacity, in-country, to allow stable long-term operations and adoption of the AMR services. One Health AMR and connected TB data management services are inevitably complex and our solutions employ the very latest technologies. We recognise that development and retention of capacity, in terms of skills, experience and the confidence to manage complex digital services, can take a long time to develop and depends on the level of the ICT maturity of a given country. The AoS approach therefore is to understand the absorptive capacity of a country, to take on the full operations of such systems, and to engage over the required period (typically years rather than months) to guide stakeholders on a ‘path to self-sufficiency’.
Project Framework for Implementations
The AoS projects follow our Project Framework, which has been developed to provide a clear and repeatable structure for AoS implementations. The framework covers the complete project process, from the initial project set-up phases, through the active project and into the sustainability period following project closure. The Framework is user centric and is continuously evolving based on user feedback and retrospectives.
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Experts
Our aim is to create a ‘Technical Advisory Group’ to help guide the focus and direction of the technologies we implement, and to provide greater support and understanding of the environments we work within. Technical innovation is driven by collaboration and influences – we welcome such input, and believe it makes our solutions stronger.
In addition, it is important to us to further create a ‘Scientific Advisory Committee’ – this committee will provide a valuable link between the technologists and the clinicians. Too often this link is lost and projects fail to meet the requirements of the user. By leveraging the knowledge and experience of scientific advisors, SfHF is focused on putting the requirements of the user at the heart of every solution.
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