Global Health Technology Outlook 2025
An assessment of health technology adoption across 42 systems, with emphasis on clinical documentation, triage and diagnostic support.
1. Executive overview
Adoption of clinical AI is uneven across health systems. Systems with unified electronic records report materially faster deployment cycles and clearer measurement of clinician time saved.
4. Diagnostic support
Prospective evaluations show narrow-task parity with specialist readers in screening mammography and diabetic retinopathy, with degraded performance on out-of-distribution populations.
7. Governance and liability
Liability frameworks remain unresolved where models adapt post-deployment. Several regulators propose fixed-version certification, which conflicts with continual learning claims made in section 4.
9. Recommendations
Prioritise documentation and coordination workloads. Measure outcomes on clinician hours and patient throughput rather than benchmark accuracy.