Digital Maturity in Hospitals

This book serves as a comprehensive guide for hospitals embarking on a digital maturity journey, offering actionable insights, best practices, and lessons learned from healthcare leaders worldwide. It brings together contributions from over 50 world-renowned digital health experts, providing hospitals with the tools and strategies needed to successfully drive digital transformation to benefit both healthcare workers and patients. Covering a broad range of topics, the chapters delve into critical dimensions of hospital digitalization, including digital maturity models, IT capability, interoperability, governance, patient-centered care, and advanced data analytics. Readers will find real-world case studies showcasing hospitals and governmental initiatives that have achieved externally validated success in their digital transformation efforts. As emphasized in the Foreword written by the President of the International Diabetes Federation, the book highlights the impact of digital maturity on patient care and explores forward-looking trends that will shape the future of healthcare digitalization, such as green IT, ethical considerations, social determinants of health, and workforce development. Whether you are a healthcare leader, policy maker, or practitioner, this book offers valuable guidance and strategic insights to help you navigate your organization’s digital maturity journey and drive excellence in healthcare delivery.