Foundational knowledge - The process of mHealth software development

6.8. The perspective of the health system

The first condition that needs to be met when considering to scale up an mHealth application is the local support and buy-in for its implementation (Nouri et al., 2018; Yanxia et al., 2020). An application is more likely to be scaled up and sustained if it is linked electronically into the health ecosystem. If feasible, ensure that data collected by the solution is linked to facility-level data systems (Yanxia et al., 2020).