Dynamic Coalition on Digital Health

Introduction

The need for integrating technologies across the healthcare value chain is now undisputed, given its role in transforming healthcare delivery. Healthcare systems must adopt and incorporate Digital Health across the continuum of care and the healthcare value chain. Though the need for Digital Health is immense, the adoption lags compared to other sectors.

With the advent of AI—GenAI, MM-AI, AR, VR, MR, Digital Twins, Robotics, and other emerging technologies, we are at the cusp of the digital transformation of healthcare. As a Dynamic Coalition, our mission is to accelerate the adoption of Digital Health, making healthcare accessible, affordable, effective, and outcome-driven, with patient centricity as its guiding principle. 

COVID-19 has brought to focus the importance of using technology for healthcare delivery at all levels, whether primary, secondary, or tertiary care. The years that followed COVID-19 have transformed how we look at healthcare.. We must work together to galvanize all stakeholders so that the three-tiered healthcare system becomes four-tiered, including Digital Health as the base tier. The focus has to be on the ‘healthcare user’ and not ‘technology’ when it comes to defining, designing, and deploying Digital Health across the continuum of care. 

Establishing the Dynamic Coalition on Digital Health was timely and crucial in highlighting and enhancing the role of Digital Health in care delivery. 

Goals

• Galvanize stakeholders from across the globe in Digital Health through this dynamic coalition on a single platform.
• Engage global stakeholders and grassroots organizations to address the critical issues for the success of Digital Health across developed, developing, and underdeveloped economies.
• Showcase the implementation at the annual IGF and disseminate the information needed to boost the adoption of Digital Health.
• Work with clinicians and allied health professionals, as well as healthcare managers across the private and public sectors, to boost the adoption of Digital Health.
• Create awareness and gather evidence in support of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (Generative and Multi-modal AI), Robotics, and LLMs. 
• Address the data quality issue to make AI-driven systems clinical grade.
• Focus on issues related to the security and privacy of health solutions and systems in the digital age.
• Capacity building of healthcare workforce for Digital Health.