Health

Transforming Healthcare: Navigating Digital Health with a Value-Driven Approach

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 16:20

World Economic Forum (09.01.2024) This insight report provides a blueprint for the Digital Healthcare Transformation Initiative, detailing healthcare challenges that digital solutions can tackle, key enablers for adoption, success stories and strategies to expedite digital healthcare transformation.

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Rethinking Health System Performance Assessment : A Renewed Framework

Submitted by pmassetti on Thu, 01/25/2024 - 15:19

oecd (23.01.2024) Health systems are under intense pressure to adapt to evolving needs and megatrends driven by population ageing, digitalisation, and climate change. They also need to be better prepared to withstand sudden, large-scale shocks such as pandemics, financial crises, natural disasters, or cyberattacks. This shifting policy context and emerging challenges called for a revision in how OECD countries assess health system performance, to help ensure that health systems meet people’s health needs and preferences while providing quality healthcare for all.

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How improving women's health can unlock trillions in GDP

Submitted by pmassetti on Thu, 01/18/2024 - 15:44

World Economic Forum (17.01.2024) A new analysis from the World Economic Forum and the McKinsey Health Institute shows how improving women's health can significantly boost GDP. Enhancing women’s health benefits individual women and helps families, communities, organizations and the global economy. In recognition of the importance of addressing the gender health gap, the World Economic Forum is launching the Global Alliance for Women's Health.

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Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems : How to Finance More Resilient Health Systems When Money Is Tight?

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 01/15/2024 - 15:33

OECD (11.01.2024) Finding sufficient funds to pay for more resilient health systems is challenging in the current economic context. COVID-19 has shown the need for additional targeted spending on public health interventions, the digital transformation of health systems, and bolstering the health workforce. Rising incomes, technological innovation and changing demographics put further upward pressure on health spending. This could result in health spending reaching 11.8% of GDP across OECD counties by 2040.

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Santé: faut-il s'inspirer du système danois?

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 11/10/2023 - 15:07

Le Temps (10.11.2023) En Suisse, on est en général très contents de la qualité du système de santé mais assez déprimés par les coûts qu’il engendre. Alors quittons un instant notre pays pour regarder comment les choses se passent ailleurs. Par exemple au Danemark, dont le système de santé est cité comme exemple depuis sa grande réforme de 2007. Quel est son secret? On vous explique.

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Health at a Glance 2023 - OECD

Submitted by pmassetti on Thu, 11/09/2023 - 16:28

oecd.org (2023) Health at a Glance provides a comprehensive set of indicators on population health and health system performance across OECD members and key emerging economies. This edition also has a special focus on digital health, which measures the digital readiness of OECD countries’ health systems, and outlines what countries need to do accelerate the digital health transformation.

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Health
Information and communication technology
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Inclusive Digital Health. Policy Overview

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 11/06/2023 - 16:01

paho.org (02.11.2023) One of the eight guiding principles for the digital transformation of the health sector promoted by the Pan American Health Organization is inclusive digital health. This policy brief presents key concepts, recommended lines of action and indicators for monitoring with the aim of advancing inclusive digital health.

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Information and communication technology
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Pathways to Universal Digital Access to Inclusive Healthcare in the G20

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 10/27/2023 - 15:55

ThinkTwenty (T20) India 2023 - Official Engagement Group of G20(2023)  Universal digital access to inclusive healthcare is a part of the G20’s vision to achieve Sustainable Development Goal-3 (good health and well-being), but the pathways to accomplish this are unspecified. India and other countries are in the process of extensively digitalising healthcare. This policy brief provides a roadmap to integrate the digital healthcare infrastructure for affordable, equitable, and universal access. The roadmap is presented using an ontology of universal digital access to inclusive healthcare.

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india
Global challenges
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Health
Information and communication technology
Service delivery
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European care strategy - One year after the adoption

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 09/12/2023 - 16:14

europa.eu (07.09.2023) One year ago the European Commission presented the European Care Strategy. One year after, several actions were launched to ensure high-quality affordable and accessible care services and to improve the situation of care providers. This was done in close cooperation with Member States, social partners, and stakeholders.

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Long-term care
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Digital-in-Health: Unlocking the Value for Everyone

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 08/25/2023 - 15:33

worldbank (18.08.2023) Technology and data are integral to daily life. As health systems face increasing demands to deliver new, more, better, and seamless services affordable to all people, data and technology are essential. With the potential and perils of innovations like artificial intelligence the future of health care is expected to be technology-embedded and data-linked. This shift involves expanding the focus from digitization of health data to integrating digital and health as one: Digital-in-Health.

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Health
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Societal Impact
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