Roadmap to Successful Digital Health Ecosystems

Roadmap to Successful Digital Health Ecosystems: A Global Perspective presents evidence-based solutions found on adopting open platforms, standard information models, technology neutral data repositories, and computable clinical data and knowledge (ontologies, terminologies, content models, process models, and guidelines), resulting in improved patient, organizational, and global health outcomes. The book helps engaging countries and stakeholders take action and commit to a digital health strategy, create a global environment and processes that will facilitate and induce collaboration, develop processes for monitoring and evaluating national digital health strategies, and enable learnings to be shared in support of WHO's global strategy for digital health. The book explains different perspectives and local environments for digital health implementation, including data/information and technology governance, secondary data use, need for effective data interpretation, costly adverse events, models of care, HR management, workforce planning, system connectivity, data sharing and linking, small and big data, change management, and future vision. All proposed solutions are based on real-world scientific, social, and political evidence.
- Provides a roadmap, based on examples already in place, to develop and implement digital health systems on a large-scale that are easily reproducible in different environments
- Addresses World Health Organization (WHO)-identified research gaps associated with the feasibility and effectiveness of various digital health interventions
- Helps readers improve future decision-making within a digital environment by detailing insights into the complexities of the health system
- Presents evidence from real-world case studies from multiple countries to discuss new skills that suit new paradigms

1. Transforming health care2. Global and national infrastructures supporting digital health ecosystems3. Global collaborative leadership challenges and economic drivers4. Fragmented global standards development organisations5. Standards for digital health, known limitations, and procurement6. The knowledge-driven platform: Strategic technologies for a platform ecosystem approach7. Are professional guidelines and regulatory standards fit for purpose?8. Health data standards' limitations9. Quality data, design, implementation, and governance10. Guideline and knowledge management in a digital world11. Modelling clinical knowledge12. Identity-What is in a name?13. Electronic health records and essential technology paradigms14. Health data security and privacy challenges: Solutions for the future15. The digital needs of genomics resulting from pandemics16. Health informatics in the Middle East and North Africa17. A framework for regional health information systems interoperability: Asia eHealth information network experiences18. The road to interoperability: openEHR modelling and implementation19. Evidence-based biomedical information systems: The road ahead20. Norway, Sweden, and Finland as forerunners in open ecosystems and openEHR21. The Brazilian digital health system: Building the digital transformation to engage country citizens22. Benefits of using SNOMED CT in the UK National Health Service (NHS)23. Primary health reform for the digital era24. Caribbean/PAHO-Jamaican case study25. Addressing workforce knowledge gaps in digital health26. Emerging digital health ecosystems