Delhi Declaration on digital health

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• This Delhi Declaration on digital health concluded as the ‘4th Global Digital Health Partnership Summit’.
• As part of the high-level summit, the ministers and delegation also adopted the Delhi Declaration on digital health for sustainable development, which called for WHO’s leadership in digital health and for it to establish a specific mechanism to centrally coordinate digital health to assist its Member States.
• Ministers and government officials from over 34 countries attended the event to discuss the impact of digital technologies on health systems and health services delivery.
• Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General shared that Digital technologies are not just the latest trend – they are a vital tool for strengthening primary care, achieving universal health coverage, and achieving Sustainable Development Goals.
• Dr Tedros said, “Tele medicine, remote care and mobile health are helping us transform health by delivering care in people’s homes, instead of in hospitals and clinics
• India emphasized on the need make technology accessible so that people can benefit from digital health.
• India’s vision is to create an integrated digital health platform and have longitudinal electronic health record for 1.3 billion people of India with a view to reduce cost of repeated diagnostics, reduce out of pocket expenditure and ensure precision medication.

(India & world, Health)(PIB)

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