DDH


Digital health is the field of knowledge and practice associated with the development and use of digital technologies to improve health. Digital health expands the concept of eHealth to include digital consumers, with a wider range of smart devices and connected equipment. The following areas are commonly understood as being part of, or related to, digital health: artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, health data, health information systems, the infodemic, the Internet of Things, interoperability and telemedicine.

Some of our products includes:

  1. Support tool to strengthen health information systems: guidance for health information system assessment and strategy development, second edition. https://www.who.int/europe/publications/i/item/9789289061148 
  2. Guidance for health information system governance.  https://www.who.int/europe/publications/i/item/WHO-EURO-2021-1999-41754-57182                
  3. The protection of personal data in health information systems- principles and processes for public health. https://www.who.int/europe/publications/i/item/WHO-EURO-2021-1994-41749-57154
  4. Guidance for creating impactful health reports. https://www.who.int/europe/publications/i/item/WHO-EURO-2021-2661-42417-58838
  5. Tools for making good data visualizations: the art of charting. https://www.who.int/europe/publications/i/item/WHO-EURO-2021-1998-41753-57181
  6. Integrating gender data in health information systems: challenges, opportunities and good practices. https://www.who.int/europe/publications/i/item/WHO-EURO-2021-2318-42073-57916
  7. Strengthening population health surveillance: a tool for selecting indicators to signal and monitor the wider effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.who.int/europe/publications/i/item/WHO-EURO-2021-2297-42052-57877
  8. Guidance on intersectoral monitoring for health. https://www.who.int/europe/publications/i/item/WHO-EURO-2023-7394-47160-69061