The Global Digital Health Landscape: What Different Healthcare Systems are Doing Differently, & What We can Learn

Digital health is no longer a question of whether healthcare systems should adopt technology. The more consequential question is what they want technology to achieve.

Healthcare systems across the world are being reshaped by pressures that extend far beyond the traditional delivery of medical care. Ageing populations, rising chronic diseases, workforce shortages, growing healthcare costs and widening expectations for faster, more personalised care are forcing countries to rethink how health services are organised and delivered. At the same time, advances in artificial intelligence, electronic health records, telemedicine, connected devices and health-data infrastructure are creating new possibilities for how patients interact with healthcare and how governments manage entire health systems.

Across the world, governments are pursuing markedly different digital health pathways. The United States is trying to make a highly decentralised healthcare market more interoperable. The European Union is building a common framework around health data rights and cross-border exchange. China is integrating digital platforms into a vast state-led healthcare system, while Brazil is using digital tools to strengthen a universal public-health architecture. India, meanwhile, is attempting something different again: building population-scale digital public infrastructure that can connect patients, providers and health records across a highly diverse healthcare landscape.

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