RTSL releases first-of-its-kind guide to effective, user-centered digital health tools
New playbook summarizes lessons from hundreds of health care workers and millions of patients on how to build a digital tool that saves time and lives. A new playbook released by Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL) compiles lessons learned from five years of health care workers using the Simple app to improve blood pressure control in patients in low-resource settings. An effective digital information system can mean the difference between a long-term health program that fails and one that saves millions of lives, especially in busy primary care facilities that manage thousands of patients who need lifelong treatment for conditions like high blood pressure. “Designing an optimal digital tool for hypertension and other long-term care programs” offers step-by-step guidance for creating effective digital tools that health care workers like and use consistently, and that deliver information that can drive program improvement and scale. Over the past 6 years, Resolve to Save Lives and partners