Value-Based Digital Health Innovation Canvas

A comprehensive framework for designing, implementing, and scaling digital health innovations anchored in governance and value.

Why VDHIC?

Facts and figures

  • The Challenge

    Digital health innovations hold transformative potential, yet over 70% fail to achieve sustainable implementation. "Pilotitis"—where innovations stall after successful pilots—is a systemic issue.

  • The Solution

    The VDHIC transforms innovation from a tech-first push to a value-based, governance-embedded journey. It integrates regulatory pathways, clinical safety, and data governance from inception.

  • The Value Anchor

    Anchored in the Quintuple Aim: improving population health, patient experience, provider satisfaction, cost reduction, and health equity.

The Canvas

A structured visual tool guiding you from Discovery to Delivery, supported by a Governance Spine.

Access VDHIC template here

Governance Spine

Regulatory, Clinical, Data, and Technology Governance embedded throughout.

Three Phases

Discover (Understand needs), Design (Build solution), Deliver (Evidence & Scale).


How to Collaborate

Effective collaboration bridges diverse perspectives. Here is our strategic approach.

  • Align Stakeholders

    Bridge diverse priorities and terminologies to reach common ground across all parties.

  • Shared Understanding

    Use visual canvases as 'boundary objects' to enable productive dialogue and clarity.

  • Workshop Facilitation

    Surface assumptions and build consensus through structured, interactive sessions.

  • Inclusive Engagement

    Integrate diverse perspectives as a fundamental principle of effective collaboration.

  • Value-Based Goals

    Anchor to the Quintuple Aim: Health, Experience, Cost, Equity, and Provider Satisfaction.

  • Stakeholder Mapping

    Systematically identify and understand all influencing and affected parties.

  • Integrated Governance

    Embed regulatory, clinical, and data governance from the start to prevent conflicts.

This initiative is funded by the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Australia Awards Fellowships.

The canvas is developed by the Australia Awards Fellows at Monash University.

For further information or to express interest in participating in the validation initiative, please contact Ahmad Hidayat.