The purpose for a Global Strategy on Digital Health is to promote healthy lives and wellbeing for everyone, everywhere, at all ages. To deliver its potential, national or regional Digital Health initiatives must be guided by a robust Strategy that integrates financial, organizational, human and technological resources.
Digital innovation is transforming the healthcare sector, with new technologies fuelling innovation, offering greater efficiency and improving patient care. Gulf Cooperation Council countries have seen the impact of digitalization and public-private collaborations on funding and success of healthcare initiatives. The rapid transformation of the Middle East’s healthcare sector has the potential …
Better training programmes, incentives, and evaluations of perceived technology usefulness could increase the adoption of digital health tools among health and care workers, a new WHO study suggests. “Barriers and facilitators to utilizing digital health technologies by health-care professionals” calls for digital health solutions that take into careful consideration the needs of health …
The shift to digital healthcare can be a powerful driver of health equity. But to make the most of it, we will need to rethink the fundamentals of delivery.
This insight report provides a blueprint for the Digital Healthcare Transformation Initiative, detailing healthcare challenges that digital solutions can tackle, key enablers for adoption, success stories and strategies to expedite digital healthcare transformation.