Roadmap to Successful Digital Health Ecosystems - A Global Perspective

Roadmap to Successful Digital Health Ecosystems: A Global Perspective, 2nd edition, explores the transformative integration of digital health technologies to enhance healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolving landscape of digital health, focusing on next-generation systems and the role of artificial intelligence in creating efficient healthcare ecosystems. The revised content covers topics such as regional implementation experiences, workforce management, and precision healthcare. New chapters highlight advancements in digital health technologies, case studies from Jamaica and Africa, and strategies for addressing fragmentation in healthcare systems. The book emphasizes ethical AI use and proactive, integrated healthcare approaches. For the academic audience, this revision serves as an essential resource, compiling cutting-edge research and practical applications that inform best practices in digital health. It equips researchers, educators, and practitioners with the knowledge needed to navigate the complexities of digital health ecosystems and drive innovation in their fields.

List of contents

Section 1: Health Ecosystems' Characteristics
1. Establishing the Need for Digital Health Transformation
2. Building Global and National Infrastructures for Digital Health Ecosystems
3. An Evolving Global Leadership Landscape
4. Fragmented Global Digital Health Standards Development Organisations

Section 2: Health Data, Information and Knowledge Pipeline
5. Are Professional Guidelines and Regulatory Standards Fit For Purpose?
6. Health Knowledge Management in a Digital World
7. Health Data Supply Chains and Data Governance: Building A Framework for Trust and Efficiency

Section 3: New Generation Health Systems: Supporting Artificial Intelligence
8. Transforming Health Ecosystems Through Digital Innovation
9. Digital Health Standards Driving Seamless System Integration
10. The Knowledge Driven Platform: Strategic Technologies for an Open Platform Ecosystem Approach
11. Modeling Clinical Knowledge
12. The Growing Importance of Health Data Standards and Their Limitations
13. Identity and Unique Identifiers: Value, Use and Their Management
14. Health Data Sources and Essential Technology Paradigms
15. Primary Health Reform for the Digital Era
16. Health Data Security & Privacy: Challenges and Solutions for the Future
17. Embracing AI for Precision Healthcare

Section 4: Health Workforce, Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes
18. A Health Knowledge and Skill-Based Framework for the Digital Age
19. Digital Upskilling of the Health Workforce
20. Digital Literacy Maturity

Section 5: Case Studies
21. Health informatics in the Middle East and North Africa
22. Leading Health Service and Policy Needs: A Community Focused Approach Supporting Public Health
23. A Framework for Regional Health Information Systems Interoperability: AeHIN Experience
24. Catalonia’s Digital Health Strategy: Transforming Vision into Reality
25. Evidence-Based Biomedical Information Systems: The Road Ahead
26. Norway, Sweden & Finland as Forerunners in Open Ecosystems and openEHR
27. Benefits of Using SNOMED CT in the UK NHS
28. Jamaican Follow Up - IS4H in the Caribbean

Section 6: Future Vision
29. Addressing transformational change
30. Emerging Digital Health Ecosystem

About the author

Evelyn Hovenga, RN, PhD, FACS, FANC, FIAHSI, currently manages eHealth Education, an RTO, and the not-for-profit Global eHealth Collaborative (GeHCo) and continues to work as a digital health consultant. She retired as Professor of Health Informatics in 2007, following a 25-year career in this discipline with a focus on standards development as these apply to EHRs, semantic interoperability, and terminology and is Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, University College London (http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/). Evelyn started her career as a registered nurse; has health executive, public service, educational and research experience; obtained a PhD in Health Administration (Nursing Informatics); initiated and hosted the first National Health Informatics Conference (HIC) in Melbourne in 1993; is one of the founders of HISA and the Australasian College of Health Informatics; and is a founding fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (FIAHSI), Geneva. She is also widely published. Evelyn is an honorary member of the International Medical Informatics Association’s Nursing Informatics SIG as a result of representing Australian nurses from 1984 for many years, as a member and Past Chair of this group.Heather Grain, ADip HIM, Dip TDD, GDip IS, MHI, FAIDH, FMU, FIAHSI, possesses international expertise in developing, implementing, and managing digital health systems and data governance. A leader in electronic health record systems, she has worked across multiple countries and held significant roles in health informatics at organizations such as ISO, HL7, and SNOMED International. Currently, she leads the Information Governance Ad Hoc Group for ISO TC215.
As an educator, Heather has guided many into health informatics, developing courses for eHealth Education and several universities. She designed the Electronic Health Records Online Learning (eHRoL) clinical coding simulation and training tool for the Global eHealth Collaborative (GeHCo). With a strong understanding of both the practical and theoretical aspects of digital health, she emphasizes the importance of data harmonization to reduce costs and improve healthcare outcomes, while working to advance skills and education strategies in digitally supported healthcare.

Product details

• Assisted by: Grain Heather (Editor), Evelyn Hovenga (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.03.2026
• EAN: 9780443440731
• ISBN: 978-0-443-44073-1
• Weight: 450 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; MEDICAL / Biotechnology, biotechnology, Personal & public health, Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences, Biotechnology Industries