Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025

Recognizing the need to strengthen digital health implementation,in May 2018 the Seventy-first World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA71.7 on digital health. The Health Assemblyrequested the Director-General “to develop…in close consultation with Member States and with inputs from relevant stakeholders…a global strategy on digital health, identifying priority areas including where WHO should focus its efforts”. It requested the Director-General also to providenormative guidance in digital health, including “through the promotion of evidence-based digital health interventions”.WHO subsequently issued its guideline with 10 evidence-based recommendations on digital interventions for health system strengthening.111.Digital health must beanintegral part of health priorities and benefit peoplein a way that is ethical, safe, secure, reliable, equitable and sustainable.It must be developed with principles of accessibility, scalability, replicability, interoperability, privacy, security and confidentiality.

Focus: AI Ethics/Policy

Source: WHO

Readability: Intermediate

Type: PDF Article

Open Source: No

External URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/documents/gs4dhdaa2a9f352b0445bafbc79ca799dce4d.pdf

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Learn Tags: Disability Ethics Fairness Government

Summary: This WHO paper outlines a global strategy to implement and govern person-centred digital health strategies by outlining outcomes, actions and target impacts for a healthier global population.