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
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. 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.
Deaths continued to fall last year when adjusted for population growth whereas in most OECD countries they had increased compared to 2015-19, before the Covid-19 pandemic.