Please join me on Wednesday, 5 December 2023 for State of Digital Health 2023 presentation and report launch at the #GDHF2023 at 2:15 PM in Oakley. Technology has transformed health throughout the world with unprecedented adoption and opportunities to bolster existing health systems, improve health outcomes, and increase access to health information and services. Countries have demonstrated the ability to scale #digitalhealth interventions and the evidence base is growing. The final frontiers are sustainability, adopting and innovating with emerging tech in a rapidly changing ecosystem, and ensuring that no one is left behind through a focus on #equity. The ability of countries to measure the state of digital health enablers, often overlooked, is critical to achieving national health priorities, including #universalhealthcoverage and #primaryhealthcare. The Global Digital Health Monitor (#GDHM) is a web platform that tracks the maturity of World Health Organization member states' digital health enablers. The Global State of Digital Health 2023 report provides a snapshot of digital health ecosystem enablers and progress made since the first report in 2019. In the lightning talk, I will outline the impact of the GDHM and how different stakeholders have used it to advance our understanding of the state of the field, including national performance metrics and regional insights. The session will present insights from 67 countries in 2023, compared to 22 countries before the 2022 relaunch. I will also present more advanced analyses that are underway by various partners and emerging trends. These trends will highlight overall progress and progress made along the seven enabling environments for digital health, including the adoption of emerging technologies, alignment to Universal Health Coverage, and Gender considerations. Many thanks to The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and The Global Fund for your support for the #GlobalDigitalHealthMonitor and the many partners that have served on our technical committee and/or helped us to mobilize country participation, including: AeHIN, Central American Health Informatics Network, International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth, Transform Health, Thoughtworks, UNICEF, Africa CDC, ECHAlliance - The Global Health Connector, USAID, Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health, Health Parliament, The Global Development Incubator Rebecca Distler Alain Labrique Derrick Muneene Fred Hersch Karin Källander Liz Nerad Tara Nutley Emeka Chukwu Frank Smith Marelize Gorgens Peter Benjamin Chris Seebregts Laurie Werner Steve Ollis Garrett Mehl Matt Hulse Innocent Chiboma Melissa Miles Lauren Wall Joy Kamunyori, PMP Merrick S. Adele Waugaman
Please join me on Wednesday, 5 December 2023 for State of Digital Health 2023 presentation and report launch at the #GDHF2023 at 2:15 PM in Oakley. Technology has transformed health throughout the world with unprecedented adoption and opportunities to bolster existing health systems, improve health outcomes, and increase access to health information and services. Countries have demonstrated the ability to scale #digitalhealth interventions and the evidence base is growing. The final frontiers are sustainability, adopting and innovating with emerging tech in a rapidly changing ecosystem, and ensuring that no one is left behind through a focus on #equity. The ability of countries to measure the state of digital health enablers, often overlooked, is critical to achieving national health priorities, including #universalhealthcoverage and #primaryhealthcare. The Global Digital Health Monitor (#GDHM) is a web platform that tracks the maturity of World Health Organization member states' digital health enablers. The Global State of Digital Health 2023 report provides a snapshot of digital health ecosystem enablers and progress made since the first report in 2019. In the lightning talk, I will outline the impact of the GDHM and how different stakeholders have used it to advance our understanding of the state of the field, including national performance metrics and regional insights. The session will present insights from 67 countries in 2023, compared to 22 countries before the 2022 relaunch. I will also present more advanced analyses that are underway by various partners and emerging trends. These trends will highlight overall progress and progress made along the seven enabling environments for digital health, including the adoption of emerging technologies, alignment to Universal Health Coverage, and Gender considerations. Many thanks to The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and The Global Fund for your support for the #GlobalDigitalHealthMonitor and the many partners that have served on our technical committee and/or helped us to mobilize country participation, including: AeHIN, Central American Health Informatics Network, International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth, Transform Health, Thoughtworks, UNICEF, Africa CDC, ECHAlliance - The Global Health Connector, USAID, Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health, Health Parliament, The Global Development Incubator Rebecca Distler Alain Labrique Derrick Muneene Fred Hersch Karin Källander Liz Nerad Tara Nutley Emeka Chukwu Frank Smith Marelize Gorgens Peter Benjamin Chris Seebregts Laurie Werner Steve Ollis Garrett Mehl Matt Hulse Innocent Chiboma Melissa Miles Lauren Wall Joy Kamunyori, PMP Merrick S. Adele Waugaman