Digital adaptation kit for postnatal care: Operational requirements for implementing WHO recommendations in digital systems

Overview

Digital Adaptation Kits (DAKs) are part of the Standards-based, Machine-readable, Adaptive, Requirements-based and Testable (SMART) guidelines initiative and include data and health content consistent with WHO recommendations related to clinical care, health systems and use of data. The DAKs are software-neutral, operational, and structured documentation based on WHO clinical, health system and data use recommendations to systematically and transparently inform the design of digital systems.

Standard components of each DAK include:  (1) linked health interventions and recommendations; (2) personas; (3) user scenarios; (4) business processes and workflows; (5) core data elements mapped to standard terminology codes (e.g. ICD); (6) decision support; (7) programme indicators; and (8) functional and non-functional requirements.

This DAK focuses on providing the content requirements for person-centred point-of-service systems used in primary health care settings by health workers for the provision of postnatal care services.

Please let us know about your experience in using the DAK and questions you may have by contacting us at SMART_DAKS@who.int.