Digital health and innovation

Digital health and innovation

Solar-powered medical oxygen systems saving lives in Somalia: using innovation to accelerate impact in a fragile setting

Solar-powered medical oxygen systems saving lives in Somalia: using innovation to accelerate impact in a fragile setting

Be mobile be healthy

Advancing Be He@lthy, Be Mobile in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Our vision

Achievement of “Health for all by all” in the Region through innovative digital health solutions to enable countries to have and use nationwide health care management systems supported by evidence-based digital health.

Our mission

To guide, enable and accelerate the use of digital health solutions in the Region to achieve the targets of regional Vision 2023 and the 2030 health-related Sustainable Development Goals.

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Our aim is to support countries to make wise decisions and investments based on the best evidence about how to prioritize, integrate, and regulate digital technologies

We cannot make the world safer without investment in science research and innovation.

I believe that innovation and technology are essential to give WHO and our national partners the tools we need to deal with the challenges and opportunities of the first quarter of the twenty-first century.

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Country activities

Noncommunicable Disease Prevention

WHO and Sweden to strengthen National Institute of Health and health information system in Somalia

Digital innovation stories during COVID-19

Digital innovation stories during COVID-19

EWARN increases surveillance for COVID-19

EWARN increases surveillance for COVID-19

Country activities

News

Following the success of mental health tele-sessions by WHO and UOSSM partnership, tele-medicine reaches Northwest Syria
24 February 2022

Early Warning Alert and Response Network launched in Djibouti to detect epidemic-prone diseases
24 November 2021

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Read our publications

WHO-ITU global standard for accessibility of telehealth services

Generating evidence for artificial intelligence based medical devices: a framework for training validation and evaluation

Global strategy on digital health 2020–2025

Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health

All publications

Scale up digital interventions to beat noncommunicable diseases

Digital communication tools used by the World Health Organization

Multimedia