Consolidated guidelines on person-centred HIV strategic information: strengthening routine data for impact. Policy brief on digital health data

Book excerpt: The new Consolidated guidelines on person-centred HIV strategic information: strengthening routine data for impact 1 aim to help countries improve how routine patient data are collected, analysed and used. They propose a minimum dataset that captures key events in an individual’s interaction with the health system, put forward priority indicators for monitoring a person’s health, and make key recommendations for data systems and data use. This policy brief summarizes the WHO guidance on digital health data in HIV services. The guidance covers several areas that are acutely important for transitioning from paper-based to digital systems while improving patient outcomes: interoperability, unique identifiers (UIDs) and privacy, security and data access and control.