As part of its series of knowledge reports in partnership with “McKinsey”

Global Government: 4 global trends driving the future of digital health

The report translates the role of the World Government Summit.

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In its report, “Digital Health: How Governments Can Accelerate the Value of Digital Health,” the World Government Summit identified four global trends driving the future of digital health.

The report, which was prepared in cooperation with McKinsey, discussed the acceleration of governments in using digital health services and the increasing need to rely on them during the coming period.

The report expected that the adoption of digitization in healthcare will open a new global market worth $230 billion, and $10 billion in the Middle East over the next five years.

The Deputy Director of the Foundation, Muhammad Al-Sharhan, stressed that the report translates the role played by the World Government Summit, as a leading global platform that supports governments seeking to improve their performance, through the knowledge, expertise and government experiences that it provides.

The report focused on three main axes, the future of digital health, the ways in which governments can accelerate its value, and the considerations that make relying on it an attractive incentive for governments to help them further accelerate the growth of the health care sector, and improve the quality of health services.

He highlighted the four global digital transformations in the health care sector, which allowed governments to achieve better results in a short period of time, which is the shift from a treatment-based care model to a prevention-based model, such as using artificial intelligence applications to predict health risks, and shifting from health services. Digital to a comprehensive digital health system.

The report also referred to the transformation and transition from fragmented patient data to aggregated and comprehensively available data, such as the digital passport for vaccines, developed by New York State in cooperation with IBM, and the World Health Organization is developing standards for what it called the smart vaccine certificate, to be adopted on a global scale. , in addition to the shift from digitization focused in the organization of health operation to digitization in medical discoveries and research, such as what Pfizer did, where it conducted the first randomized clinical trial remotely, and patients did not have to visit the care center, until they participated in this experiment, and the treatment was through After through shipments are sent directly to the patient.

The report stressed the possibility of addressing some challenges in the health care sector, through digital health innovations, as the pace of reliance on these innovations accelerated, especially during the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The report touched on the ability of digital health innovations to address challenges such as the disparity between the population of countries in accessing health care services, as 50% of the world's population does not have access to emergency health care. health for remote communities.

The report dealt with health digital innovations that managed to overcome the challenge of rising health care costs, as government health care expenditures increased by 4% each year, during the last 10 years, and it was possible to save 2% of the costs of the health system, by properly sorting injuries. And saving between 5 and 10% of the costs of the health system, through correct medication compliance, at a time when medication compliance solutions have proven to improve patient compliance by a rate ranging between 50 and 60 percent.

The report also focused on the challenge of workforce shortages and the productivity of health care workers globally, where electronic medical records systems and smart clinical decision-making systems can enhance productivity by between 10-40%.

6 Recommendations to Accelerate the Value of Digital Health

The report identified 6 recommendations through which governments can accelerate the value of digital health, namely regulating digital health innovations, by pre-accrediting these innovations, within proactive regulatory standards, and using population-related health analyzes when designing smart cities, to promote a healthy lifestyle, disease control and prevention. And creating a permanent digital twin for every citizen and resident, to enable health care providers to adopt interactive operation and raise levels of quality of care.

He also pointed out the importance of protecting and unifying patient data, through the design of digital health information portfolios, that allow patients to share their data around the world, and support the learning of the next generation based on advanced analytics, in order to continuously upgrade the skills of workers, and create digital health bonds, to encourage investments, through Partnerships and innovation funds.

The report emphasized that digital health services can provide governments with tremendous value, in order to enhance operational efficiency, develop patient experiences, and audit results within health systems. However, achieving this desired value in a shorter time frame requires governments to implement several accelerators, which are measures that help them develop Its digital health services and the expansion of its scope, to an extent that requires the entire system to adopt them.

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