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Health systems using ‘less than 5% data’ — World Bank says clinical & policy decisions not data-based
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- Aug 23, 2023
Health systems using ‘less than 5% data’ — World Bank says clinical & policy decisions not data-based
Digital-In-Health: Unlocking the Value for Everyone report was launched in Gandhinagar during the online G20 Health Ministers' Meet Saturday.
The health system the world over may be using less than five percent of available health data to improve patient outcomes, indicating that clinical or policy decisions are not based on data, a new World Bank report launched Saturday has claimed.
titled Digital-In-Health: Unlocking the Value for Everyone, was launched in Gandhinagar during the G20 Health Ministers’ Meet under India’s presidency.
It also underlined that improving health is getting harder, not easier and health systems face serious and growing challenges and policy decisions are too often not based on reliable data.
“India has shown the way in digital health and system where they have integrated the difference and made it work for a large population. Ayushman Bharat is an example that the world is looking at,” Marelize Gorgens Prestidge, lead author of the study, told the media on the sidelines of the report launch.
She added that within challenging fiscal environments, people-centered and evidence-based digital investments can help governments save up to 15 percent of health system costs and reach the underserved.
“In India, we have shown that digital innovations such as tele-consultations have reached more than 140 million people and provided accessible, affordable and efficient healthcare for everyone,” said Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya in a statement.
He added that India believes that a digital-in-health approach can unlock the value of digital technologies and data and has the potential to prevent disease and lower healthcare costs while helping patients monitor and manage chronic conditions.
It also underlined that improving health is getting harder, not easier and health systems face serious and growing challenges and policy decisions are too often not based on reliable data.
“India has shown the way in digital health and system where they have integrated the difference and made it work for a large population. Ayushman Bharat is an example that the world is looking at,” Marelize Gorgens Prestidge, lead author of the study, told the media on the sidelines of the report launch.
She added that within challenging fiscal environments, people-centered and evidence-based digital investments can help governments save up to 15 percent of health system costs and reach the underserved.
“In India, we have shown that digital innovations such as tele-consultations have reached more than 140 million people and provided accessible, affordable and efficient healthcare for everyone,” said Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya in a statement.
He added that India believes that a digital-in-health approach can unlock the value of digital technologies and data and has the potential to prevent disease and lower healthcare costs while helping patients monitor and manage chronic conditions.
