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Africa’s Digital Health Revolution: The Digital Fit-Viability Model to Move From Innovation to Scaled Implementation

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Digital innovations hold immense potential to transform health care delivery, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where financial, geographical, and infrastructural constraints continue to hinder progress toward universal health care delivery. Although a growing health tech sector offers creative solutions, few digital health interventions reach scaled implementation. In this paper, we present the digital fit/viability model-an adapted determinant framework to describe facilitators and barriers to moving from digital tools to integrated digital health implementation. We then use this model to describe the specific challenges and recommended solutions when developing digital health tools for health systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
DOI: 10.2196/63495
Authors: Afra Jiwa, Antony Ngatia, Karim Benali, Niclas Boehmer, Sangu Delle, Patrick Emedom-Nnamdi, Chris Opoku Fofie, Christine M O’Brien, Tobi Olatunji, Kate Obayabgona, Milind Tambe, Richard Ribon Fletcher, Adeline Adwoa Boatin, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier
Institutions: Harvard University, University of Edinburgh, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Ghana Health Service, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,950
OpenAlex ID: W4415466315
FWCI: 8.167
Cites: 26
Cited by: 7
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