Governance and Innovation in Digital Health

Governance and Innovation in Digital Health

Digital health is reshaping healthcare but transformation doesn’t happen by technology alone. It requires leadership, standards, ethics, accountability, and smart policy choices. This ebook reveals how governance and innovation must work hand-in-hand for digital health to be safe, scalable, and impactful.

🔍 What You Will Learn

✔ How digital health succeeds beyond the pilot phase: Understand why governance determines whether innovations become sustainable systems or isolated experiments.

✔ Balancing innovation with oversight:  Explore how countries and organizations can encourage creativity while protecting privacy, equity, ethics, and patient safety.

✔ Strategies for national health transformation : Gain practical insights into policy design, regulatory frameworks, institutional coordination, and digital-health stewardship.

✔ A lens on emerging technologies in healthcare:  Learn how AI, telehealth, data platforms, and decision-support systems can accelerate efficiency and access — when properly governed.

✔ Real-world relevance:  Discover how health systems globally are responding to digital disruption and what lessons can be applied in low-, middle-, and high-income contexts.

🌍 Who Should Read This Book?

• Government health planners and policymakers

• Health system administrators and digital transformation leads

• Public health professionals and NGO practitioners

• Health technologists, informaticians, and innovators

• Researchers, postgraduate students, and academics in health governance or digital systems

✨ Why This Ebook Matters

Digital health has enormous potential to improve access, strengthen surveillance, enhance diagnosis, and personalise care. But without thoughtful governance, rapid innovation risks fragmentation, inequity, ethical breaches, and system failure. Governance and Innovation in Digital Health equips you to navigate these complexities — offering frameworks that ensure digital solutions are not just innovative, but safe, inclusive, accountable, and sustainable.

Whether you are shaping national policy, implementing digital programmes, conducting research, or designing health technologies, this ebook gives you the strategic insight needed to lead digital transformation with integrity and impact.