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Digital technologies are revolutionising how individuals communicate with each other, seek and exchange information, and improve their lives. Digital technologies offer an unprecedented opportunity to change lives, transform economies, and stimulate growth. Mobile connectivity and mobile technology have opened up new opportunities to connect people. The use of digital technologies for health is a transformative agent in low-income settings, where mobile connectivity has reached unprecedented penetration and ubiquity.
The current digital health transformation provides an excellent accelerator for reaching the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The World Health Assembly Resolution on Digital Health has recognised the value of digital technologies to contribute to advancing the health aims of the SDGs. The Resolution urged all Ministries of Health ‘to assess their use of digital technologies for health […] and to prioritise, as appropriate, the development, evaluation, implementation, scale-up, and greater use of digital technologies.’
There is international support for a scale-up of digital health by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which has stated that ‘the use and scale-up of digital health solutions can revolutionize how people worldwide achieve higher standards of health, and access services to promote and protect their health and well-being.’ WHO is focussing on enabling countries to plan, adopt, and benefit from seamless and secure technologies that provide effective clinical and public health solutions to accelerate the achievement of SDG3. This means leaving no one behind – children or adults, rural or urban, with digital solutions to improve their health and well-being. However, an unprecedented global effort will be required to mobilise political will, capital, infrastructure, and technology in order to scale this accelerated progress.
The Key Objectives of the round table are:
- Discuss and agree on how to accelerate and adopt digital health solutions including Early warning disease surveillance systems at all levels to jointly accelerate the digital transformation of healthcare.
- Discuss how to enhance the power of collaboration and partnerships that brings together all the key stakeholders to build a network of networks, the Global Digital Health Community: Government, Development partners, Academia, Civil societies and the Private sector to ensure effective global coordination, create solidarity and contribute to the achievement of health-related SDGs.
Original source: WHO