Document: Classification of Digital Health Interventions (CDHI)
Discussion period: 27 October 2022 to 9 November 2022.
Deadline for comments: 9 November 2022, 23:59 (CEST)
The World Health Organization (WHO) would like to issue a second public call for comments on the updates to v1.0 of the Classification of Digital Health Interventions (CDHI), following the first public feedback and broad consultation across the digital health community.
The WHO CDHI v1.0 was created in 2018 to provide a common digital health vocabulary for diverse stakeholders from numerous backgrounds and areas of expertise. It has since been used by stakeholders of digital health projects around the world, with a particular focus on consistent documentation, national digital inventories and planning surveys, research, and investment coordination. As opposed to previous frameworks that provide highly technical terminology mainly intended for computer scientists and software developers in health, the CDHI constitutes a key bridging language between technology-oriented audiences and those in health to facilitate consistent ways of articulating needs and functionalities represented in digital health system implementations.
Since 2018, there have been advances in technology and additional interventions have arisen, prompted by the global pandemic. These, together with calls from expert communities and other stakeholders, prompted the need to update the CDHI v1.0.
WHO is issuing this second public call, appealing to researchers, government and public health stakeholders, technologists, healthcare providers, donors, implementers and agencies that utilize (or aim to utilize) the CDHI to provide further comments on the first draft of v2.0.
Guidance on providing comments
You can submit comments via the online survey from 27 October 2022 to 9 November 2022.
- A summary of the updates is available.
- A spreadsheet showing the changes to the digital health interventions section is also provided.
Upon closure of the public call, all comments will be reviewed by a WHO panel in updating the v2.0 draft.
Please note: Your anonymized responses may be made available in a report.
Contact
If you have technical difficulties with the online form, please send an email with the subject “CDHI v2.0 draft: Public feedback”.