The WHO Executive Board recommended to the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly the adoption of the resolution eHealth standardization and interoperability that urges Member States to consider options to collaborate with relevant stakeholders, including national authorities, relevant ministries, health-care providers, and academic institutions, in order to draw up a road map for implementation of health data standards, in efforts to achieve a secure, timely and accurate exchange of data for health decision-making.
 

At its 132nd session, the Executive Board of the World Health Organization reviewed a progress report on the global implementation of the 2005 resolution on eHealth (WHA58.28).  Key topics included standardization and interoperability in eHealth, on the exchange of health data, and challenges associated with the establishment of the dot health Internet domain name. The Secretariat also reported on current initiatives to strengthen the protection of the name of intergovernmental organizations on the Internet.

Women’s and children’s health is a global concern, demonstrated most recently by the publication of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health and the creation of the United Nations Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health (COIA). eHealth, the use of information and communication technology for health, can offer innovative and cost-effective ways to improve the health of women and children.

The interactive atlases of health inequalities in the European Region were initially developed in as part of the Equity in Health project co-funded with the European Union. The atlases have been recently updated in collaboration with WHO Collaborating Centre for Telemedicine and eHealth - Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine (NST) to incorporate the most recent data available from Eurostat as well as a recreation of the user interface of all interactive atlases.