Table 2.

Digital health and UHC in action: examples of expanding the cube

	UHC cube side addressed			Who benefits?
Intervention example	More people	More & better services	Financial stress reduced	Individuals (Patients)	Families	Communities	Clinicians	Payers	Regulators	Producers
Online telecare-enabled services for rural women in Pakistan	×			×	×	×	×		×
Hypertension screening in cafes & nail salons in Vietnam	×			×	×			×
Flagging changes in physical access to facilities during conflict (Yemen)	×			×	×	×			×
Machine learning to identify HCV-risk individuals who would otherwise be missed in Colombia	×			×	×		×	×
Big Data to reach individuals for specific hepatitis drug treatment in Brazil	×			×	×	×	×			×
Machine learning to identify high-risk for diabetes & other chronic diseases in Costa Rica	×			×	×		×	×	×
SMS-based data reporting in Uganda tracking service quality, drug access & disease outbreak patterns		×		×	×		×	×	×	×
e-Health records & platform in Estonia		×		×	×		×	×	×
Unified data analytics platform in Ethiopia		×		×	×	×	×	×	×
AI for childhood eye care screening in India		×		×	×		×	×
SMS system for drug stock-outs in Tanzania		×		×	×	×	×	×	×	×
Pharmacy dispensing units in malls with remote consultations in South Africa		×		×	×		×	×		×
Drones delivering blood & medical supplies in Ghana, Nepal & Rwanda		×		×	×	×	×			×
3D printing of otoscopes in Nepal		×		×		×	×		×	×
Mobile-based health insurance wallet facilitating access to health insurance & making payments, cash transfers easier in Kenya & Pakistan			×	×	×	×		×	×
Machine learning to detect fraud more efficiently & at lower cost in Zambia			×	×				×	×
Digital ID systems in Botswana, Estonia, India, South Korea & Thailand among others	×	×	×	×	×		×	×	×
Suite of Big Data, GIS, & machine learning tools to refocus health system in Peru with changing disease burden	×	×	×	×	×	×	×		×
Digital health program in Pakistan (Punjab), using multiple rounds & types of innovation (apps, GIS, machine learning) to boost vaccination & staff performance	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×

HCV – Hepatitis C virus