Digital Health, Data & AI

Overview

WEMA's digital-health story is not a catalogue of apps. Across cervical screening, hypertension, acute kidney injury, maternal health, chronic disease and participatory research, technology appears in different roles: capturing images, supporting remote mentorship, sending messages, tracking patients, enabling teleconsultation, structuring data, supporting navigation or helping people create and share knowledge.

A smartphone can improve quality assurance in one project, support patient communication in another and become a storytelling tool in a third. AI-assisted visual evaluation can support triage research, but it still depends on image quality, risk thresholds, clinical workflows, explainability and treatment capacity.

Digital tools can reduce some barriers while creating others - connectivity, literacy, privacy, workflow burden, maintenance, cost and inequitable access. The scientific question is how technology changes the system in which it is embedded.