Main description:

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.

Contents:

1. Transforming health care
2. Global and national infrastructures supporting digital health ecosystems
3. Global collaborative leadership challenges and economic drivers
4. Fragmented global standards development organisations
5. Standards for digital health, known limitations, and procurement
6. The knowledge-driven platform: Strategic technologies for a platform ecosystem approach
7. Are professional guidelines and regulatory standards fit for purpose?
8. Health data standards' limitations
9. Quality data, design, implementation, and governance
10. Guideline and knowledge management in a digital world
11. Modelling clinical knowledge
12. Identity-What is in a name?
13. Electronic health records and essential technology paradigms
14. Health data security and privacy challenges: Solutions for the future
15. The digital needs of genomics resulting from pandemics
16. Health informatics in the Middle East and North Africa
17. A framework for regional health information systems interoperability: Asia eHealth information network experiences
18. The road to interoperability: openEHR modelling and implementation
19. Evidence-based biomedical information systems: The road ahead
20. Norway, Sweden, and Finland as forerunners in open ecosystems and openEHR
21. The Brazilian digital health system: Building the digital transformation to engage country citizens
22. Benefits of using SNOMED CT in the UK National Health Service (NHS)
23. Primary health reform for the digital era
24. Caribbean/PAHO-Jamaican case study
25. Addressing workforce knowledge gaps in digital health
26. Emerging digital health ecosystems