Digital health is revolutionizing healthcare, transforming provider-patient relationships, enabling new care models, and shifting focus towards client-centered care in low- and middle-income countries.

Digital Technology and the Future of Health Systems

This special issue explores global healthcare systems, financing, delivery, and management, focusing on technological advances in diagnosing, treating, and preventing diseases, as well as technology regulation and ethical issues.

Global Healthcare: Advances and Challenges [Scanning the Issue]

AI has the potential to address global health care inequities, but challenges in developing and implementing AI applications in low- and middle-income countries must be addressed before widespread adoption and measurable impact.

Artificial intelligence for global health

AI-driven health interventions could improve health outcomes in low and middle-income countries, but ethical, regulatory, and practical considerations must be addressed for widespread use and deployment.

Artificial intelligence and the future of global health

Digital health technology has the potential to transform healthcare and empower citizens, but requires a multi-disciplinary research approach to effectively utilize its potential and achieve better outcomes.

Grand Challenges in Digital Health

The digital divide in healthcare technology hinders its accessibility and integration into global health systems, highlighting the need for research and development to make technology more affordable and accessible.

A Critical Review of Global Digital Divide and the Role of Technology in Healthcare

Health technology adoption can improve health outcomes, enhance healthcare productivity, and reduce overall healthcare costs, but reimbursement and equity issues must be addressed before implementation.

The Role of Health Technology in Transforming Healthcare Delivery and Enhancing Spending Efficiency ​

Digital health technology revolutionizes healthcare delivery and improves health outcomes in conflict zones by addressing unique challenges faced by these regions.

The role of digital health in revolutionizing healthcare delivery and improving health outcomes in conflict zones

Robots can improve global health by diagnosing and treating infectious diseases, reducing human contact during pandemics, and delivering food and medicines, but high costs, privacy concerns, and job displacement hinder their effective use.

The Need for Robots in Global Health

Digital health technologies can improve healthcare quality in extreme adversity settings by enhancing engagement, continuity, workforce operations, and data collection.

The role of digital innovation in improving healthcare quality in extreme adversity: an interpretative phenomenological analysis study

Technology can improve healthcare provision by empowering individuals to manage their health and supporting healthcare professionals in their work, through mobile devices and internet access.

Technologies for Analyzing and Improving Healthcare Processes

Blockchain technology can improve healthcare by addressing privacy, security, and interoperability challenges, enabling secure access to health records and better managing public health threats.

Blockchain technology in healthcare: Challenges and opportunities

New technologies, particularly Artificial Intelligence, can potentially improve healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries.

New technologies to improve healthcare in low- and middle-income countries: Global Grand Challenges satellite event, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, 17th-18th September 2019.

Medical technology advances can improve healthcare, but face challenges in delivery systems, metrology, and data processing.

The Grand Challenges of Medical Technology

Emerging technologies can improve under-five health and well-being in low-resource settings like Makonde District, Zimbabwe, by supporting data-driven healthcare, automated reminders, and enhancing diagnosis, continuous monitoring, and health education.

Emerging technologies' role in reducing under-five mortality in a low-resource setting: Challenges and perceived opportunities by public health workers in Makonde District, Zimbabwe.

Exponential technologies and biomedical entrepreneurship can revolutionize healthcare delivery, requiring a shift in biomedical engineering education to focus on solving unmet clinical needs and incorporating life skills and entrepreneurial training.

Healthcare in need of innovation: exponential technology and biomedical entrepreneurship as solution providers (Keynote Paper)

Academic health science centers can lead the transformation of medicine by creating novel treatments and implementing effective, population-wide strategies, addressing global health challenges.

The role of academic health science systems in the transformation of medicine

TECH-ISM framework empowers medical decision-makers to drive innovation in healthcare by influencing social dynamics in workplaces.

Adoption of technological innovation in healthcare delivery: A social dynamic perspective

Industrial engineering students gain valuable experience in integrating technology in healthcare delivery, preparing them for careers in complex industries.

Exposing Undergraduate Students to the Challenges of Integrating Technology in Healthcare Delivery

What is the role of technology in addressing global health challenges and improving healthcare delivery?

These studies suggest that technology, including digital health and AI, plays a crucial role in addressing global health challenges by transforming healthcare delivery, improving health outcomes, and enabling new care models, but issues like accessibility, ethical considerations, and regulatory challenges must be addressed.