The Global Conference on Digital Health, ‘Taking UHC to the Last Citizen’
20—21 March 2023, New Delhi, India
22 March 2024
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Overview
Digital technologies are transforming lives and businesses in all sectors across the world. Health sector is no exception. Health services at the population and individual levels have witnessed extraordinary improvements hailing new approaches to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) in the years to come. WHO has been catalyzing Member States progress in digital health by providing technical support, facilitation, and guidance to promote healthy lives and wellbeing for everyone, everywhere, at all ages.
The COVID-19 pandemic exerted enormous pressure on countries’ health system urging countries to develop and roll-out multiple digital solutions to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on service delivery and health systems performance. The SE Asia Regional Strategy for Primary Health Care 2022–2030 stresses the urgency to leverage the potential of digital technology to improve access to quality of equitable PHC.
Leveraging India’s presidency of the G20 and the prolific actions and commitments of previous presidencies, the WHO SE Asia Regional office and the Government of India joined efforts to give new impetus to global collaborations and actions in the implementation of digital health technologies and innovations. Together, they hosted the Global Conference on Digital Health to shift the focus from strategy to achieving a global consensus on a Plan of Action that produces impactful results on the ground, through a set of digital health initiatives aimed at accelerating progress towards UHC.
WHO Team
SEARO Regional Office for the South East Asia (RGO),
WHO South-East Asia
Number of pages
4