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Health at a Glance 2023

OECD Indicators

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Health at a Glance provides a comprehensive set of indicators on population health and health system performance across OECD members and key emerging economies. These cover health status, risk factors for health, access to and quality of healthcare, and health system resources. Analysis draws from the latest comparable official national statistics and other sources.

Alongside indicator-by-indicator analysis, an overview chapter summarises the comparative performance of countries and major trends. This edition also has a special focus on digital health, which measures the digital readiness of OECD countries’ health systems, and outlines what countries need to do accelerate the digital health transformation.

English Also available in: French

Digital health at a glance

OECD countries are struggling to maximise the value from digital health because technologies and the data environment are often outdated and fragmented. This chapter explores the concept of digital health readiness – assessing the policy, analytic, technical and social environment that enables successful use of digital health. The concept of readiness is taking on increased urgency with the realisation that digital health is an emerging determinant of health. The chapter first looks at the policy components of an integrated digital health ecosystem to establish dimensions of digital health readiness – analytic, data, technology and human factor readiness. It then compiles and analyses indicators to measure readiness in these dimensions. The chapter concludes with a brief exploration of digital transformation as a determinant of health, providing some examples of the benefits of digital health in acute care to lower costs and improve the patient experience.

English Also available in: French

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