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Globally, populations move between general practice, community services, hospitals, and specialist care. Yet in New Zealand, the information clinicians need is often stored across separate systems, making it difficult to build a complete and useful picture of a person’s health history. Patients repeat their story, while clinicians spend valuable time searching for, validating, and reconciling information. ​…

As health systems increasingly adopt digital channels, there is a risk that digital transformation can widen existing health inequalities. People experiencing barriers related to connectivity, affordability, digital skills or confidence may be less able to access and benefit from digital health services. For health systems, a key challenge is identifying where these overlapping risks are greatest so that action and resources…

Healthcare systems worldwide face growing pressure to manage chronic diseases while reducing avoidable hospital use and costs. A central challenge is the lack of timely insight into patients’ condition between clinical visits, which makes early intervention difficult when their health begins to deteriorate. ​ Medixine Remote Monitoring Service is a CE-marked Class IIa medical device under the EU Medical…

Clinicians across Canada and globally face significant administrative burden, with documentation adding cognitive load, after-hours work, and reducing time for patient care. To address this, Canada Health Infoway launched the national AI Scribe Program to provide safe, vetted AI scribe solutions and accelerate responsible adoption in primary care.  ​ The program funded 10,000 AI scribe licenses for eligible…

As health systems around the world advance interoperability, the standards and data models that enable the secure exchange of health information are becoming increasingly complex. While these standards are essential to digital transformation, they can be difficult for implementers, policymakers, vendors, and standards teams to navigate. Understanding how data elements, attributes, and relationships connect often…

The Digital Health in Maré pilot project, integrated into the SUS Digital Program, Brazil’s national strategy for the digital transformation of the Unified Health System (SUS), seeks to address a challenge shared by contemporary health systems: using digital transformation to expand access to health services and reduce health inequalities in vulnerable territories. ​ The initiative was…

Australians increasingly rely on digital health services, making cyber security essential to safe, trusted and connected care. The Australian Digital Health Agency’s Cyber Champions Program addresses the challenge of building practical cyber capability across a complex and distributed health and care sector, where organisations vary in size, maturity and access to specialist support. ​ The program implemented a community-led model…