The World Economic Forum’s Shared Guiding Principles for Digital Health Inclusion, developed through the EDISON Alliance, outlines seven principles to ensure equitable access to digital healthcare. These include designing inclusively to prioritize equity, embedding trust and ethics, enabling interoperability for connected care, focusing on women’s health needs, ensuring sustainability, securing and responsibly using data, and adopting effective regulation. The report stresses the urgency of closing gaps in connectivity, digital literacy, and trust while scaling innovations like telehealth and AI. By aligning stakeholders around these principles, the framework aims to expand affordable, inclusive, and resilient digital healthcare worldwide.

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