India, June 13 -- image credit- freepik

Recognising the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) across the WHO South-East Asia Region and the potential of digital health and AI to strengthen primary healthcare systems, WHO and The George Institute for Global Health, India have signed a Project Collaboration Agreement to strengthen the design, implementation, evaluation, and scale-up of evidence-based digital health and AI interventions for primary healthcare and non-communicable disease prevention and management.

Non-communicable diseases account for more than half of all deaths in the Region, with nearly half of these deaths occurring before the age of 70. Yet, primary healthcare systems remain ill-equipped to respond to hea...