Global Digital Health Monitor Shifts to the World Health Organization 

The Global Digital Health Monitor (GDHM), a resource stewarded by health.enabled and GDI, is being integrated into the World Health Organization (WHO) Data Portal to serve as the official digital health monitoring platform for WHO’s Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH). This move highlights the GDHM’s unique value as a tool for standardizing digital health frameworks, ensuring interoperability, and global monitoring of digital health transformation. 

GDHM serves as an interactive resource, empowering countries to prioritize and monitor their digital health ecosystems based on the WHO/ITU eHealth Strategy Toolkit’s seven fundamental pillars. These pillars include leadership and governance, strategy and investment, legislation, policy and compliance, services and applications, infrastructure, standards and interoperability, and workforce. The GDHM utilizes 23 indicators across these pillars, including cross-cutting areas, such as emerging technologies and equity, to enable countries to evaluate and advance their digital health capabilities.

To date, 80 countries, representing more than 40% of all countries globally, have assessed their digital health maturity through the GDHM. The tool plays a critical role in guiding health priorities and fostering regional and global collaboration through: 

• Monitoring and supporting the improvement of digital health quality at the country level
• Tracking progress towards comprehensive and integrated digital health systems
• Identifying areas of funding and technical assistance needs within and across countries
• Encouraging better alignment among policymakers, donors, and implementers in the digital health sector
• Providing transparency on digital health maturity to de-risk private sector investment at the country level

The “State of Digital Health 2024 Brief” shares an analysis of selected indicators from the 2024 GDHM survey submissions of 47 participating countries across all WHO regions. This brief serves as an interim report leading up to the more comprehensive “State of Digital Health Report,” which will be released later in 2025.

The GDHM is continuously seeking to broaden its insights and has set a goal to increase participation to 100 countries by the end of 2025. To learn how to contribute your country’s data to this critical global initiative aimed at improving health and well-being for all, contact info@digitalhealthmonitor.org.