Global Digital Health Monitor (GDHM)
An Assessment Tool in Conducting Digital Health Convergence Workshops
Use of GDHM
Empower
- Help decision-makers and stakeholders make informed strategic directions and resource allocations
- Catalyze digital health transformation in countries
Evaluate
- Evaluate digital health maturity against standardized digital health indicators
- Serve as baseline to inform the WHO Global Strategy for Digital Health and monitor the WHO Digital Health Resolution
Monitor
- Monitor digital health progress and areas needing improvement
- Promote country-to-country learning
- Can be used to incentivize digital health systems improvements (national) and encourage targeted investments (global)
Using GDHM: Before a Digital Health Convergence Workshop
Tool for readiness assessment
- Assessment questions provide a comprehensive way to understand the maturity of a country’s digital health-enabling environment
Tool for risk assessment
- Shows yearly progress
- Reveals vulnerability of digital health components, thus raising awareness of areas needing urgent action
Tool for benchmarking with other countries
- Enables countries to check their digital health maturity and performance against average scores (global and regional levels)
- View maturity in comparison with other participating countries in the region
Using GDHM: During a Digital Health Convergence Workshop
Tool for high-level presentation
- An accessible and reliable resource for high-level presentation of national digital health status
- Data visualization charts explain digital health components needing support in a country
Tool for multi-stakeholder digital health monitoring (as a workshop activity)
- GDHM’s indicators and questionnaires are helpful inputs that can be used for collective digital health monitoring in a workshop setting
Tool for informing action planning
- Translate digital health monitoring insights into action steps to achieve target digital health outcomes
- Serve as a starting point to develop an action-based plan
Tool for assistance and investment alignment
- Map digital health components or areas requiring funding and technical assistance based on action items
- Provide evidence to encourage stakeholders to align people, processes, resources, various tools and technology behind the national digital health agenda
Using GDHM: After a Digital Health Convergence Workshop
Tool for post-convergence monitoring activities
- Update GDHM results for internal (institutional) reflection
- Update GHDM results as part of regular monitoring (as an institutionalized activity of the digital health governance structure)
- Update GHDM results to inform succeeding iterations of digital health convergence workshops
Tool for updating the national digital health strategy
- Include GDHM indicators to inform monitoring updates to the national digital health strategy
Tool for research
- Use GDHM data for any research endeavor that will help strengthen the identified workshop action items
Get Involved
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