This State of Digital Health Brief is an analysis of select indicators from the Global Digital Health Monitor (GDHM) 2024 survey submissions of 47 participating countries across all WHO regions as an interim report in anticipation of a more robust State of Digital Health Report 2025.
Read MoreGlobal public good to prioritize and monitor the digital transformation of health within and across countries.
Read MoreIn a NextBillion article, Patty Mechael Ph.D. MHS Co-founder and Policy Lead of HealthEnabled, reflects on how the Global Digital Health Monitor (GDHM) enables country governments to advance their digital health strategies and investors to deploy capital effectively toward digital health transformation.
Read MoreThe Global Digital Health Index (GDHI) launched its Version 2.0 at the World Health Assembly, unveiling the new and improved Global Digital Health Monitor (GDHM). Backed by major global health actors, GDHM now monitors digital health progress at the country, regional, and global levels.
Read MoreThis grant will support a participatory review and redesign process of the GDHI to align with the WHO Digital Health Strategy and reflect developments in digital health.
Read MoreThis report by the Lancet Commission on Diagnostics cites the Global Digital Health Index (GDHI) as an essential tool for scaling digitalization innovations past the pilot phase and driving the maturity of the diagnostics ecosystem.
Read MoreDrawing on GDHI data, this piece for Semana Económica makes the case that COVID-19 represents a unique opportunity for Peru to attract 'innovators': digital players who can help accelerate the transformation of the health sector.
Read MoreA synthesis of the virtual panel discussion at the 2020 Global Digital Development Forum to discuss digital health enablers for pandemic preparedness and response.
Read MoreThe Global Digital Health Index is now available in 4 additional languages, expanding access for non-English speaking countries to participate in digital health sharing and self-evaluation.
Read MoreJoanne Ke Edelman, Manager at the Global Development Incubator, writes for NextBillion: “As technology continues to play a bigger role in our health ecosystems, it is more critical than ever that we use a data-driven approach to measure and improve the status of our digital health structures at the national, regional and global level.”
Read MoreDr. Patricia Mechael, co-founder and policy lead at Health Enabled and one of the partners facilitating the development of the Global Digital Health Index (GDHI), writes about the need to equip health professionals with both the knowledge and information they need to engage effectively with digital health tools.
Read MoreReport presents first-ever snapshot of digital health ecosystems worldwide and serves as call to action for governments and health practitioners
Read MoreThe Challenge mobilized digital health networks to encourage their member countries to join the Global Digital Health Index (GDHI)
Read MoreMEASURE Evaluation, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), worked with digital health practitioners from the Digital Health and Interoperability Technical Working Group of the Health Data Collaborative, the USAID-funded Maternal and Child Survival Project, and Health Enabled to summarize the purpose, methods, and intended use of four of the key maturity model-based digital health assessment and improvement tools.
Read MoreDr. Patricia Mechael, co-founder and policy lead at Health Enabled and one of the partners facilitating the development of the Global Digital Health Index (GDHI), sat down with Merck for Mothers to discuss the need for the Index and how it can help solve some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.
Read MoreThe Global Digital Health Index (GDHI)—an interactive digital health self-assessment tool and maturity model that enables countries to track, monitor, and evaluate the use of digital technology for health within and across countries—is thrilled to launch the first Digital Health Data Challenge.
Read MoreThe Global Digital Health Index (GDHI) launched today alongside the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.
The full press release is available to read or download below.
We at the Global Digital Health Index (GDHI) have been fortunate to have the ongoing leadership and support of the Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA). Today we're excited to share the below announcement about the launch of the Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health.
Read MoreA global group of leaders announced today the Global Digital Health Index (GDHI), an interactive digital resource that will track, monitor, and evaluate the use of digital technology for health throughout the world. The GDHI aims to make global health systems more transparent, responsive, and better able to meet the needs of the population by assessing countries’ progress in digital health and identifying each country’s greatest opportunities, needs, and gaps.
Read MoreIn the past five years, we have witnessed remarkable advancements in technological innovations — including mobile phones, tablets, remote patient monitoring devices, and sensors — that drive so-called “digital health” around the world. Increasingly, these innovations are also equipped with GPS and metrics that generate promising evidence of their cost-saving and, more importantly, life-saving capabilities.
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