World Health Organization
منظمة الصحة العالمية
Organisation mondiale de la Santé

Vision, mission and work

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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.

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

Strategic objectives

Develop and assess national digital health policies, strategies and programmes with the core objective of conceiving, developing and using national health care services management systems as:

  • a cost-effective means of supporting the operation of all forms of hospitals, primary health care centres, laboratories, pharmacies and other facilities for the nationwide delivery of health care services; and
  • the means for enabling a range of various activities, for example, from the auto-extraction of statistical data (to compute and monitor vital indicators) to the building of knowledge data bases (from purposely designed and assembled patients’ discharge summaries);

Strengthen, evaluate and develop digital health governance to prioritize and monitor outcomes of investments on architecture, infrastructure, norms and standards (for data, protocols, documentation), quality, security and confidentiality, legislation and ethics, policies and compliance.

Build national capacity to improve digital health innovations.

Engage individuals, professional societies and other stakeholders, within and outside the health sector, to build national capacity and mobilize resources for improvements to digital health innovations; and incubate and support piloting of digital health research and innovation.

Strategic priorities

Regional strategic priorities for digital health in the Region include:

  • encouraging and assisting countries in adopting digital health policies, strategies and architecture aimed at achieving nationwide digital health solutions;
  • encouraging/advising and, where possible, supporting and injecting funding for digital health adoption;
  • supporting and strengthening digital health governance in Member States;
  • strengthening partnerships at primary health care level and with hospital managers to integrate efforts and ensure measurable population health improvements and increased accessibility to high quality health services;
  • increasing and building capacity to improve digital health solutions;
  • raising awareness among providers, consumers and the general public;
  • promoting the use of common standards and interoperable digital health solutions;
  • strengthening services nationwide through connecting under-served remote areas;
  • promoting and supporting digital health research and innovation within and by Member States; and
  • maintaining the engagement of stakeholders during implementation of digital health strategies.