GDHP Tools
Tools & Publications
The GDHP Work Streams develop digital health policy guidance tools that everyone can use to help shape their digital health policies. Here you can find the publications and tools the GDHP has released to the public.
Tools
Digital Health Literacy Toolkit
October 30, 2025. This toolkit compiles international learnings and practices to support the advancement of public digital health literacy.
GDHP/OECD Policy Repository Tool
November 4, 2024. This dynamic tool allows countries to identify leading policy practices worldwide around a variety of topics, such as interoperability and secondary use of data.
International Insights on Individual Engagement
September 12, 2024. This tool highlights global individual engagement experiences from around the world.
Publications
Guidance for Medical Device Cybersecurity
October 3, 2024. Medical devices, including patient monitors and imaging systems, are increasingly a target for cyberattacks. Attackers exploit vulnerabilities to access sensitive patient data and disrupt critical healthcare services.
Global Digital Health Partnership Survey on Digital Health Development
September 27, 2022. This white paper provides an overview of how digital health is evolving globally to provide a common basis for future development.
Approaches to Priority Identification
September 16, 2022. This paper presents results concerning the priorities identification section of the Evidence and Evaluation survey addressed to GDHP members in 2021, comparing countries’ initiatives and perspectives for the future of digital health based on internationally agreed developments.
Benefits Realisation: Sharing Insights
June 20, 2022. This white paper offers countries an agreed set of ‘standard’ benefits categories and potential outcome measures to support the international comparison of evidence relating to digital health technologies and services.
Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare: Creating an International Approach Together
December 11, 2020. This report provides policy guidance to the international health community on supporting development and implementation of AI models within digital health technologies from a policy and regulatory perspective.
Advancing Interoperability Together Globally
July 20, 2020. This white paper focuses on barriers, solutions and drivers related to interoperability, shares lessons learned and best practices that GDHP countries to address interoperability through standards, legislation, policies, incentives and innovative solutions.
Citizen Access to Health Data: An International Review of County Approaches to Citizen Access to Health Data
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...
Cyber Security: Foundational Capabilities
July 20, 2020. This white paper presents a common framework from which to assess foundational cyber capabilities: the Foundational Capabilities Framework (FCF) which has been applied to around a half of the GDHP participant countries. The FCF builds on, and represents the next level of detail of, the Strategic Framework which was articulated...
Measuring Benefits
April 3, 2019. This white paper informs of current evaluation and benefits measurement approaches within the GDHP members, to share common findings and learn from the successes or otherwise of countries around the world in this field.