Egypt has unveiled its National Digital Health Strategy 2025–2029, a comprehensive roadmap aimed at modernizing the country’s healthcare system through integrated digital infrastructure, improved data governance, and expanded online services. Announced by Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar during PHDC’25, the strategy seeks to build a fully digitized health ecosystem by 2029.
Key pillars include creating a national unified health data system, deploying secure and interoperable digital platforms, and increasing the availability of online services for patient monitoring, faster care delivery, and more efficient management. The initiative aligns with the broader Digital Egypt 2030 agenda and leverages Egypt’s rapidly growing ICT sector and high internet penetration.
Egypt has already laid foundations through electronic medical records, telemedicine services, hospital automation and AI-assisted diagnostics. However, the government acknowledges remaining challenges: training healthcare workers, improving cybersecurity defenses, and expanding connectivity to rural and underserved areas to ensure equitable access.
The strategy aims to strengthen an overburdened healthcare system, reduce bureaucratic bottlenecks, and build long-term resilience against future health crises — lessons reinforced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Egypt launches 2025–2029 Digital Health Strategy to modernize and digitize national healthcare
