Innovation and healthcare improvement is best supported through co-design processes, where innovators and organizations delivering healthcare services are actively engaged in the design process with consumers and clinicians, understanding what people need and want.
This GDHP work stream focuses on building an understanding of strategies that have worked to improve digital health literacy, and the role of co-design in addressing the needs of patients and clinicians in their efforts to use digital health technologies to support better health and care across countries.
Comparing and documenting international concepts relating to digital health literacy, such as definitions and examples of policy and initiatives to improve literacy amongst clinicians and consumers.
Sharing international best practice and developing a mechanism (such as a survey tool) to compare policy and initiatives driving engagement of clinicians and consumers and their adoption of digital technologies (including socially isolated and hard to reach communities, payment models).
Country:
United Kingdom
Functions:
CIO, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust/Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Integrated Care System
Country:
Italy
Functions:
Assistant Professor of Hygiene and Public Health (Department of Life Sciences and Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Digital Health Expert at the Ministry of Health, General Directorate for Digitalization.
Digital health literacy comprises the ability to find, understand, and apply health information, and to manage one’s own health by using electronic tools and information sources. Digital health literacy is a foundational element of successful health care transformation and increasingly important to patients, caregivers, and the public.
This toolkit compiles international learnings and practices to support the advancement of public digital health literacy.
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October 30, 2025. This toolkit compiles international learnings and practices to support the advancement of public digital health literacy.
September 12, 2024. This tool highlights global individual engagement experiences from around the world.
July 20, 2020. This report provides evidence derived through a survey on the state of citizen access to personal health information (PHI) in GDHP participant countries and territories. The survey responses present a view on the progress and impact being made across a diverse group of 22 countries and territories in the implementation...
April 2, 2019. This report summarises international approaches to clinical engagement in digital health initiatives. It includes the barriers to and enablers of engagement, an analysis of relevant literature, and a summary of key observations drawn from GDHP members.
