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The Africa CDC's ambition to digitalise 90% of Africa's primary healthcare systems by 2035 could create one of the continent's largest health technology infrastructure opportunities. In an op-ed, Mike Adeyemi Lawal, a digital health expert, examines why digital health is moving beyond innovation projects and becoming a core component of health service delivery.
“Digital health becoming part of primary healthcare infrastructure is not the most dramatic story in African health innovation. But it may be one of the most important,” says Lawal.
He argues that the future of African digital health will depend less on creating new applications and more on integrating existing technologies into primary healthcare systems.
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