Ireland ranks worst for digital health policies in developed world, says
report
Paul Cullen
Ireland ranks worst in the developed world for digital health policies
even though Irish people have the third-highest level of digital skills,
according to an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) report.
Recognising that its members are struggling to maximise value from
digital health because technologies and the data environment are often
outdated and fragmented, the OECD explored countries’ readiness for the
digital tools that are transforming health, including artificial
intelligence.
Ireland ranked worst of 22 countries for ability to link different data
in health, scoring less than half of the best performer, Denmark,
according to the Health at a Glance 2023 report published on Tuesday.
By a long way, it also ranked last for the governance of data sets,
including controls for privacy and security. Ireland’s score on this
index was one-seventh of Denmark’s.
This is in spite of the fact that the digital skills of Irish adults are
well above the OECD average, surpassed only by Netherlands and Finland.
Ireland also scored near the bottom of a digital citizen engagement
index measuring digital services provided by governments to their citizens.
Otherwise, Ireland fares well in this year’s edition of the report,
which compares key indicators for people’s health and their health
systems across the 38 members of the OECD..
Irish Times
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