Regional Action Frameworkon Digital Healthin the Western Pacific Regional Action Framework on Digital Health in the Western Pacific © World Health Organization 2025 ISBN 978 92 9062 098 3 Some rights reserved. This work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0IGOlicence (CCBY-NC-SA3.0IGO; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo). Under the terms of this licence, you may copy, redistribute and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes, provided thework is appropriately cited, as indicated below. In any use of this work, there should be no suggestion that WHO endorsesany specific organization, products or services. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. If you adapt the work, then youmust license your work under the same or equivalent Creative Commons license. If you create a translation of this work,you should add the following disclaimer along with the suggested citation: “This translation was not created by the WorldHealth Organization (WHO). WHO is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this translation. The original Englishedition shall be the binding and authentic edition”. Any mediation relating to disputes arising under the license shall be conducted in accordance with the mediation rules ofthe World Intellectual Property Organization. (http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/mediation/rules/) Suggested citation.Regional Action Framework on Digital Health in the Western Pacific. Manila: World HealthOrganization Regional Office for the Western Pacific; 2025. Licence: CCBY-NC-SA3.0IGO. Cataloguing-in-Publication (CIP) data.1. Digital Health. 2. Regional Health Planning. 3. Telemedicine. I. World HealthOrganization Regional Office for the Western Pacific. (NLM Classification: W83) For WHO Western Pacific Regional Publications, request for permission to reproduce should be addressed to PublicationsOffice, World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific, P.O. Box 2932, 1000, Manila, Philippines, Fax. No.(632) 8521-1036, email: wpropuballstaff@who.int Third-party materials.If you wish to reuse material from this work that is attributed to a third party, such as tables, figuresor images, it is your responsibility to determine whether permission is needed for that reuse and to obtain permission fromthe copyright holder. The risk of claims resulting from infringement of any third-party-owned component in the work restssolely with the user. General disclaimers.The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not implythe expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of WHO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city orarea or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Dotted and dashed lines on mapsrepresent approximate border lines for which there may not yet be full agreement. The mention of specific companies or of certain manufacturers’ products does not imply that they are endorsed orrecommended by WHO in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. Errors and omissions excepted,the names of proprietary products are distinguished by initial capital letters. All reasonable precautions have been taken by WHO to verify the information contained in this publication. However, thepublished material is being distributed without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. The responsibility for theinterpretation and use of the material lies with the reader. In no event shall WHO be liable for damages arising from its use. Cover illustration: Clarissa InesInternal pages: pp. vi, 25: © WHO / Yoshi Shimizu; p. 1: © WHO / Tytaart; p. 3: WHO/Blink Media - Juliana Tan;p. 4: photo courtesy of Qure.ai; p. 6: © WHO / Enric Catala Contents Abbreviations.....................................................................................................................................................ivExecutive summary....................................................................................................................................v 1.Introduction...............................................................................................................................................1 1.1Digital health landscape: diversity of challenges andopportunities.....................................................................................................................................11.2Continuously evolving digital health ecosystem.............................................21.3Rationale for the Regional Action Framework..........................................................3 2.Vision, strategic objectives and guiding principles....................................4 3.Action domains and recommendations....................................................................6 3.1Governance...........................................................................................................