Report: State of Digital Health 2023 Report: State of Digital Health 2019
 

Smarter health worldwide.

The Global Digital Health Monitor is an interactive digital resource that tracks, monitors, and evaluates the use of digital technology for health across countries.

 
 

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About the Global Digital Health Monitor

The Global Digital Health Monitor (GDHM) is an interactive digital resource that helps countries to prioritize and monitor their digital health interventions and enablers that uses the WHO/ITU eHealth Strategy Toolkit as the underlying foundational framework. The tool consists of 23 indicators in the areas of leadership & governance; strategy & investment; legislation, policy & compliance; workforce; standards & interoperability; infrastructure; services & applications; and cross-cutting issues like emerging technology and equity.

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The aim of the global digital health monitor is to:

  • Monitor and improve quality of digital health at the country level

  • Track progress towards comprehensive and integrated digital health systems 

  • Identify areas of funding and technical assistance needs within and across countries  

  • Encourage better alignment among policy makers, donors, and implementers in the digital health field in alignment with the Principles for Digital Development and Donor Alignment for Digital Health

  • Highlight potential areas of risk for investment at the country level

In early 2016, HealthEnabled and the Global Development Incubator (GDI) partnered with Dalberg’s Design Impact Group (DIG), ThoughtWorks, and representatives from 20+ countries and 50+ international agencies and organizations to design the Global Digital Health Index (GDHI).

In 2022, the tool underwent a year-long indicator and platform review and redesign process to align the indicators with the WHO Global Digital Health Strategy as a complement to the WHO Digital Health Atlas and includes a greater focus on AI, equity, gender, and Universal Health Coverage. In addition, the name was changed to GDHM to articulate the tool’s value in providing a platform to monitor digital health progress at the country, regional and global levels. The updated GDHM includes year on year performance monitoring country visualizations, regional visualizations, and country to country comparisons.

Read additional resources here (French version).

 

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Team

The GDHM is co-facilitated by HealthEnabled, a digital health nonprofit, and the Global Development Incubator (GDI), an organization that builds social impact startups and partnerships.

 

ThoughtWorks is the technology partner developing the web-based Index.

Dalberg Design is the design partner for the Index.

 

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Technical Committee

 

The GDHM Technical Committee includes a broad range of government, private sector, academic, NGO, and other top institutions and individuals in digital health:

  • Sean Blaschke, UNICEF

  • Joseline Carias, RECAINSA

  • Emanuele Capobianco, WHO Foundation

  • Gabriel Catan, World Bank

  • Rebecca Distler, McGovern Foundation

  • Vajira Dissanayake, Commonwealth Medical Association

  • Carine Gachen, Gavi

  • Jai Ganesh Udayasankaran, AeHIN

  • Skye Gilbert, PATH

  • Rajendra Gupta, Ministry of Health India

  • Boonchai Kijsanayotin, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand/Asia e-Health Network

  • Mark Landry, Global Fund

  • Ousmane Ly, Digital Health Consultant

  • Jeroen Maas, Philips

  • Alvin Marcelo, University of the Philippines Manila

  • Dykki Settle, PATH

  • Lucy Setian, Novartis

  • Professor Teng Liaw Siaw, WHO Collaborating Centre for eHealth based at UNSW, Sydney

  • Chaitali Sinha, IDRC

  • Frank Smith, Transform Health

  • Steve Wanyee, Intellisoft Kenya

  • Adele Waugaman, USAID

  • Tim Wood, Gates Foundation

 

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Partners

 
 
 

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