Guidance for Investing in Digital Health

Peter Drury, Susann Roth, Tom Jones, Michael Stahl and Donna Medeiros

Working Papers from eSocialSciences

Abstract: Digital technologies are increasingly underpinning almost all aspects of daily life, including health care. But there is not yet sufficient awareness of the issues to be considered when investing in digital technologies to improve systems as complex as health. The overarching goal is to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and, in particular, universal health coverage (UHC) by investing in digital health. Health care systems in both developed and developing nations have begun to embrace the transformative power of information and communication technology, from electronic health records that integrate and organize medical data and enable providers to share it easily, to mobile technology that spurs better informed decisions by people and health workers in rural areas and hospitals. There are many digital health solutions already in place, and many are planned.

Keywords: eSS; digital technologies; health care; health; Sustainable Development Goal (SDG); universal health coverage (UHC); health care system; developing nations; transformative power; Information; Communication and Technology; eelctronic health records; medical data; mobile technology; hospitals; digital health. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-05
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