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Successfully Implementing Digital Health to Ensure Future Global Health Security During Pandemics: A Consensus
Bandar Al Knawy1,2, Mollie Marian McKillop3, Joud Abduljawad2
1King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
JAMA Network Open
|February 23, 2022
Summary
The Riyadh Declaration provides practical guidance for implementing digital health strategies to strengthen public health responses to pandemics. These recommendations focus on key themes like technology, equity, and trust for global health security.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Digital Health
- Health Policy
Background:
- COVID-19 exposed chronic underinvestment in digital health, hindering pandemic response.
- The Riyadh Declaration on Digital Health offers recommendations for current and future pandemics.
- Practical implementation guidance for these recommendations is currently lacking.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop actionable guidance for stakeholders on deploying digital health and data.
- To support integrated public health strategies for pandemic preparedness and response.
- To address challenges posed by COVID-19 and future pandemics through digital health.
Main Methods:
- Literature review and analysis of Riyadh Global Digital Health Summit proceedings.
- Nominal group technique with 13 diverse public health and digital health leaders.
- Two rounds of expert review to achieve consensus on key themes and issues.
Main Results:
- Consensus reached on 5 high-priority themes: team, transparency and trust, technology, techquity, and transformation.
- Each theme includes concrete points for adopting digital health locally, nationally, and internationally.
- Recommendations prioritize actionable insights for policymakers.
Conclusions:
- The consensus points offer a roadmap for digital health policy implementation by all stakeholders.
- Effective implementation can significantly reduce pandemic-related fatalities.
- Adopting these digital health strategies can unite countries in combating pandemics.
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